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Thank you Alan Thompson for the annual BRIDGE CREW membership & movie reaction request!

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Evan Guthrie

Plain, simple serial killer.

deskmerc

"Is he a holographic mayor" and my brain immediately emitted "PLEASE STATE THE NATURE OF THE POLITICAL EMERGENCY"

startrekiborg

Years of only seeing this on TV, I never realized how much nudity was in it.

Collin Freeman

Fun facts: 1) Clint directed the night scene where Harry rescues the suicide jumper because Don Siegel was out with an illness. 2) Andrew Robinson had never fired a gun and flinched every time he fired one, so Siegel had him go to a gun training course to get over it, 3) Clint initially was not going to do the scene as written of Harry throwing his badge in the lake, so they only made 1 badge, but on the day of shooting, he changed his mind and thought it was right for the character after all, so he threw the badge in one take, which is good because they had no other prop badges, 4) Clint Eastwood performed the stunt of jumping on to the bus himself, 5) the Scorpio killer was based on the real-life Zodiac killer who terrorized the bay area in the late 60's/early 70's and was never caught, but had a similar M.O. to Robinson's character in this film.

Collin Freeman

Good discussion. Your comments about the ending are exactly what Eastwood was thinking about throwing the badge at the end, and so initially he wasn't going to do it because he thought it was a knock on the police, but at the last minute, he changed his mind and decided it was true to the character for where he was at that moment.

Collin Freeman

Yeah, because they obviously cut those scenes on commercial TV.

Monty Crawford

Great reaction guys, to one of my favorite Eastwood movies. Of course there are many sequels to this one. It surprises me that you guys have not watched any of other Eastwood movies beyond the man with no name spaghetti westerns. My next suggestion and I implore all of you to endorse this.....is "Kelly's Heroes".

Rob Galloway

Definitely the best of the Dirty Harry franchise mainly due to Mr. Andy Robinson! Thanks for watching guys really enjoyed it!

Schnabley

That bridge is down the road from San Quentin State prison and it was trippy the couple of times I drove through there. Andrew Robinson is a spooky dude.

John A

Must watch the next Dirty Harry movie Magnum Force (1973) This movie was a statement on how Police gave their lives in the line of duty, but also during the time people felt unsafe. Critics said at the time this movie showed police stepping out of line to get the job done, well the general public loved it, They wanted to see crime stopped and not see criminals get off on technicalities. It was controversial at the time, and still is during our time.

John A

Easter Egg - When Harry in entering the coffee shop you can see the movie marquee. The movie showing is "Play Misty for Me" which is Clint Eastwoods first dictatorial debut in 1971. Very cool Easter Egg.

Raphael Gaytan

I met Andrew Robinson as he was taking down his vendors table on the last day of the 2018 Las Vegas Star Trek convention. Of course, I gushed on about how his portrayal of Garak made him my favorite character of “Deep Space 9”…which he appreciated. But when I mentioned how influential his performance as Scorpio was in “Dirty Harry”, it was like turning on a faucet full blast! Andrew went on for thirty minutes, regaling me with all sorts of stories from behind the scenes…including how his agent had difficulty sending him out on auditions for a few years after “Dirty Harry” because everyone in town thought he was legit crazy!! What an honor it was to spend time with such a down-to-earth, bad ass actor! And he insisted on taking a photo with me and giving me a free personalized autograph on a picture of Scorpio…for what? Taking up my time to listen to his stories?? Was he FREAKIN’ kidding me??? 😆

Phenomenon (Doo - Dooo - Dah - Doo - Doo)

I will always have the image of him at the end of "Hellraiser" uttering the line "And Jesus wept..." as the Cenobites were having their fun with him. Still brings a shudder to my spine

Often Wrong Soon(g)

Joined patreon for Voyager and beyond. Not because it is my favorite but because I only know 25% of it. Wtached you edited versions of the other because i know them all. Seen every TOS 5 times, TNG 10 times, most of DS9.

Paul Penter

Die Hard 3 ripped off the whole phonebooth sequence. Clint is the ultimate movie icon. Man with no Name trilogy, Where Eagles Dare, Kelly's Heroes, Unforgiven, Gran Torino, Dirty Harry...the most epic and diverse movie career of all time and that's not even including his director career. Absolute legend. Glad you enjoyed DH.

Hvgunwilltravel

Oh the irony of calling him Cardassian...

jon bolton

One of my favourite films since i was a kid. I was about 6 when i first saw t his in the 80s. I'm sure Garak was just practicing some of his skills from from the Obsidian Order.😂

jon bolton

When you saw the tooth snd Alex said he was Cardassian, i laughed and said 'yes'.

Mike Rogers

The naked dead body of the girl was played by Debra Lee Scott who doesn't look like the younger girl seen in the photos of the kidnap victim. They were going to film it more close up, but it was cold and Debra Lee Scott was uncontrollably shivering and it was not as visible in the distance.

jon bolton

Yeah i saw him at a Star Trek convention in about 2013/4 and as well as praising his performance ad Garak i said thought he was fantastic in this.

Raphael Gaytan

In DS9 terms…for a glorious half hour, I felt like I was Bashir having lunch with Garak! Priceless memories! 🖖

M.A. Moreno

It's a very well made, well acted piece of right wing propaganda. As far as police thrillers of the time go, it's not quite on the level of The French Connection, but there's a reason why it has been imitated and spoofed to death.

M.A. Moreno

Of course, it loses its effect somewhat in retrospect, as we ended up with five of these Dirty Harry movies.

Collin Freeman

Yes, each subsequent Dirty Harry film was a little less than the one before it, although I tend to like The Dead Pool just slightly more than Sudden Impact.

Actuarial Lurker

This was Andrew Robinson's breakout role. He was interviewed on various Star Trek themed podcasts during the pandemic and he said that he was basically typecast as a psycho and couldn't find work for close to 2 years after this film. Even though he is straight, right before he was cast as Garak he played a very flamboyant Liberace in a bio pic and when he did his first scene with Siddig as Bashir he decided right on the spot to turn Garak into a an "ambiguosly gay spy" and the staff at DS9 just rolled with it...

Phenomenon (Doo - Dooo - Dah - Doo - Doo)

If the Golden Gate Bridge makes you edgy, you will *LOVE* the Confederation Bridge connecting New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island in Canada. It's 8 miles long over open water (the Northumberland Strait)

Actuarial Lurker

Debra Lee Scott was married to Jonathan Frakes for a few years in the mid-80s. She was in Welcome Back Kotter and the night time fake comedy soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

Mike Rogers

Oh shit! I did not get that until now!

Actuarial Lurker

There was a whole 70s genre of "the system doesn't work" so we need vigilantes. In Dirty Harry its the cop. In the Charles Bronson "Death Wish" series the main character has his family attacked and he goes from being a mild mannered architect to a "Joker"-like guy who rides around the NYC subways at night and walks around parks alone flashing money so that muggers try to attack him. When he guns them down he becomes an anonymous hero in the press. The problem with these films was that the "good guys" were always White and the criminals were all Black or Hispanic and the vigilantes would just gun them down, so even back then the films were considered pretty racist.... I was 10 years old in the mid-70s and grew up in NYC and it WAS that dangerous since the city had gone bankrupt in 1974 defaulting on its bonds and couldn't afford enough cops or even to clean the streets so there was garbage everywhere, and people would walk their dogs in midtown Manhattan and leave dog crap right in the middle of the sidewalk, etc etc. On the other hand there were many crazy cops just beating on people. The Rollings Stones' famous song "Heartbreaker" was about a real Black Lives Matter like shooting in 1972 where undercover detectives shot at a dad who was taking his teenage kid to the auto repair shop where he worked to teach him to be a mechanic- the cops shot the kid in the back killing him and later said they thought they were drug dealer just because they were Black. A majority White jury acquitted them and there were several days of riots like the George Floyd protests. The family sued the city and it turned out one of the two cops had shot other Black men in the back before- so the family got a big payment and NYC set up one of the first registries in the US of bad cops who had a history of violent arrests. If you haven't seen the cult classic 70s movie "The Warriors" you should- its obviously exaggerated- but not by too much- about gangs riding around the NYC subways and "wilding".

Jonathan Llyr

Thanks for giving me a reason to finally watch the new 4K disc of the film I got recently. I really love the score for this film. Lalo Schifrin was a genius.

Tigers Fan

Don't forget his western musical with Lee Marvin - Paint Your Wagon.

Mark Chrisco

One generally unknown Andrew Robinson item is he was originally cast as Gul Dukat, but in rehearsals he didn't exude the kind of menace envisioned for the character. He was replaced by Marc Alaimo and given the role of Garak, who arguably became as integral as Dukat

Tim Nikiforovs

Finally got around to watching this reaction. First time seeing the movie in full as well. Pretty good. Lost it at the "I know what you're thinking, did 5 kids die or 6" joke. I knew the villain was played by Robinson since I was a kid, but definitely knew him as Garak first and foremost, so seeing clips from the movie with this baby faced Andy Robinson with a squeaky voice playing a serial killer was a bit of a mind fuck. In regards to evidence being inadmissible because of an improper search, I assume there's a good reason for that, but it always seemed to me the better approach if you have clear evidence to prove guilt is you use it to lock the criminal up, and depending on how badly their rights were violated, or what procedure was violated, you punish the cop too. Letting a murderer go when you very nearly literally have a smoking gun is crazy to me. In regards to all the nudity. It seemed like the 90s and maybe late 80s/early 2000s were much more PG in terms of sex and nudity. Plenty of action, plenty of violence, and obviously still plenty of sex appeal in terms of suggestive shots or scantily clad women, but full on nudity seemed pretty rare in the big movies. But go a couple decades back to the 60s or 70s, or forward to the late 2000s/2010s, and movies and TV are horny as fuck.

tyranusfan

Me too! They hadn't made the connection yet and I was like "yeah!" (nodding)

Fedora The Explorar

Alex you definitely remember Andrew Robinson in Childs Play 3. He was the barber with the creepy moustache. Presto You're Bald!