Sitting here watching Magnum Force
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scooter123
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I would expect that even in 1973 actual police tactics and procedures bore only an accidental resemblance to what was displayed in Magnum Force. Fact is that with any drama the story line drives the script and "getting the facts correct" is regarded mostly as inconvenient.
feralmerril
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Lately I have been watching the "Blue bloods" series. I like it. Of course that takes place in NYC. Kinda makes me think of jimmy. He has what, 5 or 6 kids that are in LE?
jframe
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I suppose tactics and so forth probably ARE kinda funny. What's REALLY good about it though, is whenever Harry jerks that big Model 29out and starts earning his living. I want one just so I can sit in my recliner and dry fire at the bad guys while it's on.
Alpo
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Wanna laugh at police tactics? Find a copy of the 1959 movie Dragnet. They have a guy "we know he's guilty, we just can't prove it". So they follow him. Everywhere. Walk up to him half a dozen times a day. Frisk him. Make him take everything out of his pockets. Then they just - walk off. They do it at the side of the road. They do it in the restaurant. They do it while he's waiting in line at the theater, with his friends. They follow him into a private "members only" club, and do it there.
The Last Standing Knight
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Now, now....Sgt Friday ALWAYS read the suspect some rights...then threw in some lefts for good measure.
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Inspector Callahan don't need no steenking tactics! Gotta love Clint! King if the one liners 
ThirtyAcres
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Several of the younger actors in this film went on to bigger things.
David Soul.
Tim Matheson.
Robert Urich.
Look for Suzanne Somers in the swimming pool scene.
David Soul.
Tim Matheson.
Robert Urich.
Look for Suzanne Somers in the swimming pool scene.
cmort666
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Enjoyable if taken as mere entertainment.
I saw it in downtown Chicago as a kid when it first came out. I bought the Serven book on Colt firearms (at the late and sorely missed Krochs & Brentanos on Wabash Ave.) the day I saw it, so it was a good day all around.
I saw it in downtown Chicago as a kid when it first came out. I bought the Serven book on Colt firearms (at the late and sorely missed Krochs & Brentanos on Wabash Ave.) the day I saw it, so it was a good day all around.
cmort666
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There were several popular pornstars of the day in that scene.
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I never heard any mention of Suzanne Somers in the movie. I believe the name of the nude swimmer was Diana Davidson. For those interested, here's a complete cast rundown.
Dirty Harry (1971) - Full cast and crew
Dirty Harry (1971) - Full cast and crew
Double the pleasure and pick up on the M Squad series with Lee Marvin, my kids got me the series for Christmas since they know I like old television shows. Some of the acting and drama in some of these episodes are real classic!
Really enjoy Blue Bloods as well!
Another show I like and I like the interaction between the two main characters is Person of Interest
sigp220.45
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The OP is talking about Magnum Force, the sequel to Dirty Harry. Suzanne Somers is listed in IMDB as "Pool Girl".
Magnum Force (1973) - Full cast and crew
Pool Girl even has her own character bio, written by a guy with too much time on his hands:
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0035390/bio
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semperfi71
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My favorite Dirty Harry flick. Lots of revolver action.
I remember to this day only one scene from "M Squad". Some bad guys in a station wagon knock off a military armory, in daylight I think. The acquire a bazooka. As the cop car is chasing them down the street one of the bad guys climbs in back of the station wagon, rolls down the window, and shoots the bazooka at the cop car, blowing it up.
I was young enough, but had already knew enough, to wonder, "What about the back-blast?".
My favorite "Cannon" episode was when he out shot the bad guy on the hill (he had an M16) from about 30 yards away. Cannon had a 2 inch snub. He was a heck of a pistol shot....
Me and the War Department love "Blue Bloods".
I remember to this day only one scene from "M Squad". Some bad guys in a station wagon knock off a military armory, in daylight I think. The acquire a bazooka. As the cop car is chasing them down the street one of the bad guys climbs in back of the station wagon, rolls down the window, and shoots the bazooka at the cop car, blowing it up.
I was young enough, but had already knew enough, to wonder, "What about the back-blast?".
My favorite "Cannon" episode was when he out shot the bad guy on the hill (he had an M16) from about 30 yards away. Cannon had a 2 inch snub. He was a heck of a pistol shot....
Me and the War Department love "Blue Bloods".
cmort666
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I always loved on "Hawaii Five-O", how Jack Lord could shoot his 2" Model 36, from the hip, at a car going 70mph, 100 yards away, in a 90deg. deflection shot and blow the tire off as though it had been hit by a round from a 40mm Bofors. By incredible coincidence, he was VERY anti-gun...My favorite "Cannon" episode was when he out shot the bad guy on the hill (he had an M16) from about 30 yards away. Cannon had a 2 inch snub. He was a heck of a pistol shot....
semperfi71
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In one of the "Lethal Weapon" sequels the movie is very anti-gun with an opening incident of a perk with a flamethrower and Mel Gibson (THAT's somebody to look up to!!) said, "He must be a poster boy for the NRA."
Later in the movie as he and Danny Glover walk through the station there's an anti-NRA ad hung on the wall.
In the end, Mel Gibson takes his Beretta 9MM, loads it with "cop-killing" armor piercing bullets, and shoots through the steel blade of a huge CAT tractor to kill the driver.
Since I now own a 9MM I'm looking for some of that armor-piercing ammo!!!
Later in the movie as he and Danny Glover walk through the station there's an anti-NRA ad hung on the wall.
In the end, Mel Gibson takes his Beretta 9MM, loads it with "cop-killing" armor piercing bullets, and shoots through the steel blade of a huge CAT tractor to kill the driver.
Since I now own a 9MM I'm looking for some of that armor-piercing ammo!!!
Hi, Buddy:
As a side note, several years ago there was a newspaper article about my family of "Cops". Penny use to be referred to as "The Mother of Law Enforcement".
On a TV interview Penny stated that "Any hour day or night, one of my Sons is on patrol somewhere".
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