The Dirty Harry movie gun(s)

29-1 · May 14, 2011

Here's the Milius interview on the 44 Magnum at the NRA museum.
Chuck

YouTube - Dirty Harry's S&W .44 Magnum. A National Firearms Museum Treasure Gun

MakeMyNight · May 14, 2011

That video just "Made My Night!" ;>)

Kavinsky · May 17, 2011

Have you guys checked the IMFDB website on this? it looks like someone there may have found one of them:
Enforcer, The - imfdb :. guns in movies :. movie guns :. the internet movie firearms database

and another one for the latter films:
Dead Pool, The - imfdb :. guns in movies :. movie guns :. the internet movie firearms database

Arisin Wind · May 17, 2011

Kavinsky said:
Have you guys checked the IMFDB website on this? it looks like someone there may have found one of them:
Enforcer, The - imfdb :. guns in movies :. movie guns :. the internet movie firearms database

and another one for the latter films:
Dead Pool, The - imfdb :. guns in movies :. movie guns :. the internet movie firearms database

The gun pictured for the Deadpool looks like a 29-3.

Elmer · May 17, 2011

When Harry is shooting at bad guys with his 29, I don't think there's any question about the power of the loads he's using "on duty".

One of the more pleasant afternoons I've ever had, was shooting a charity sporting clays match with John Milius. We followed him around like puppies, hanging on his every word. A truly amazing man.

66 shooter · May 17, 2011

All I know is, after the first D/H movie came out every cop had to have a Model 29 just like Harry's. After we got them, with the approprite leather of course, most of us carried them once or twice and said, "damn this thing is heavy" and off to the gun safe. What an era.

Anton Chigurh · May 17, 2011

66 shooter, if you and your buddies want to take those anchors out of the safes and sell them................

Anton Chigurh · May 17, 2011

Arisin Wind said:
The gun pictured for the Deadpool looks like a 29-3.

Yes, somewhere earlier in this thread someone stated that the producer/director stayed in the proper time frame, i.e. 6" gun, which is what was sold in the mid/late '80s.
It would throttle me if they actually got it right on purpose. More likely the 6 1/2" guns were off to wherever, and they just obtained what was available.
Which, I guess, is what Harry would have done, after fishing around off the coast for the gun that nailed Scorpio

, and coming up empty.

mkk41 · May 17, 2011

A few years ago , I bought a 6in Mod.25 in .45 Colt and of course an expert stepped forward with how Dirty Harry actually used the Mod.25 because the bigger bore looked better on camera and it could use the one-time standard 5 in 1 blanks.

marlin58 · May 17, 2011

Right from Clint

read Clints last biography...he states they were real .44 mags...M29-2's 1973 supplied new from S&W in two sizes 6.5" like the original I own and 83/8'...if yuo watch movies you will see where they were....and of course the infamous auto-mag. good enough for me from the horses mouth

MAG-NUM · May 17, 2011

The Dirty Harry legend lives on.....

Here is my photo shop tribute to Dirty Harry

I know, wrong barrel size, wrong grips and this isn't even a model 29, its a model 57.....just use your imagination

Bob

Gordylew · May 17, 2011

That photo of the display at the NRA museum made me remember that he was using a Winchester 70 safari in .458 win mag for the roof scene. how about that for an anti sniper rifle? sans scope too!

gkitch · May 18, 2011

M-29 "co-star"

I just thought of something. "Dirty Harry" is said to have co-starred the S&W 44 magnum and in many ways the gun upstaged Mr Eastwood. The movie did, after all, put both movie stars in high demand.
So, funny how in ALL the sebsequent franchise episodes the famous firearm was marginalized toward the end of the film! From "Magnum Force" to "Dead Pool" the final scenes featured some alternate (but always big) weaponry. Did Clint get jealous of his co-star, perhaps?

Kavinsky · May 18, 2011

marlin58 said:
read Clints last biography...he states they were real .44 mags...M29-2's 1973 supplied new from S&W in two sizes 6.5" like the original I own and 83/8'...if yuo watch movies you will see where they were....and of course the infamous auto-mag. good enough for me from the horses mouth

I also think that atleast for the first 3 films His 6 inch M29 had the old style coke bottle grips on it like on the IMFDB photo of his gun for The Enforcer:
Enforcer, The - imfdb :. guns in movies :. movie guns :. the internet movie firearms database

did he mention if they used the 8 inch past Dirty Harry?

ricketts · May 18, 2011

Last summer--

153 · May 19, 2011

Not that it matters much, but in "The Enforcer" Harry's partner - Inspector Moore carried a Colt Diamonback and not a Python as stated in the IMFDB.

Fishslayer · May 19, 2011

MAG-NUM said:
The Dirty Harry legend lives on.....
Here is my photo shop tribute to Dirty Harry

Bob

This isn't mine but it's been a favorite for quite awhile.

Cavaliere · May 21, 2011

about John Milius...

Doc44 said:
I am not sure what John Milius's connection to Dirty Harry was, but he was the writer of the story in Magnum Force that came out in the fall of 1973.

John was brought in to beef up the script of Dirty Harry and, frankly, were it not for his input the movie probably would have been, well, average. Because of the way WGA screen credits (and other guys contracts) work, John wasn't credited on the screen (a total of five writers worked on the script). That Eastwood and Warner Bros. were more than delighted with John's work was borne out by his being given the sequel, Magnum Force, and one of the two pistols used in the filming of both pictures. Pretty cool, huh?

He also wrote two of my all-time favorite films, The Life And Times of Judge Roy Bean and The Wind and the Lion.

mkk41 · May 21, 2011

gkitch said:
I just thought of something. "Dirty Harry" is said to have co-starred the S&W 44 magnum and in many ways the gun upstaged Mr Eastwood. The movie did, after all, put both movie stars in high demand.
So, funny how in ALL the sebsequent franchise episodes the famous firearm was marginalized toward the end of the film! From "Magnum Force" to "Dead Pool" the final scenes featured some alternate (but always big) weaponry. Did Clint get jealous of his co-star, perhaps?

And the Colt Walkers he used in The Outlaw Josey Wales were the biggest pistols of all. They dwarf a 6in N-frame!

Anton Chigurh · May 21, 2011

gkitch said:
I just thought of something. "Dirty Harry" is said to have co-starred the S&W 44 magnum and in many ways the gun upstaged Mr Eastwood. The movie did, after all, put both movie stars in high demand.
So, funny how in ALL the sebsequent franchise episodes the famous firearm was marginalized toward the end of the film! From "Magnum Force" to "Dead Pool" the final scenes featured some alternate (but always big) weaponry. Did Clint get jealous of his co-star, perhaps?

I always thought it was one of the weaker points of subsequent films. Maybe knocking the nuts off every villian with his trusty .44 Mag would have been criticized for being too predictable and repetitive, but having them drive off a carrier deck, splashing them with an RPG, harpoon, whatever ........didn't offer the same satisfaction, if that is the word, that the audience got with Scorpio's last giggle.

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