The idea for the Robert Caulfield (Gene Hackman's) character to wear glasses was a concept conceived by Hackman himself.
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The only Dirty Harry movie not primarily set in San Francisco.
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Ed Harris was offered the role of Mick.
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Body count: eighteen (including Threlkis).
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Lead actress Sondra Locke was older than all of the actors playing her rapists and 21 years older than the guy on the street who catcalls her near the beginning of the film. She was also six years older than the actress playing Rae--who is clearly meant to be older than Locke's character--and 11 years older than the woman who played her sister, even though they're meant to be close in age. Moreover, Locke was only seven years younger than the art gallery curator who unfathomably calls her "child" during their short scene together.
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Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, and Pat Hingle appeared in The Gauntlet (1977), also directed by Eastwood.
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The screenplay was originally written for a non-Dirty Harry movie with Sondra Locke. However, this script, by Earl E. Smith and Charles B. Pierce, was later re-written by Joseph Stinson into this "Dirty Harry" movie.
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Last widely released movie of Sondra Locke.
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The highest-grossing of the Dirty Harry film franchise.
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This was the third and final movie that Pat Hingle made with Clint Eastwood. The first two were Hang 'Em High (1968) and The Gauntlet (1977). Hang 'Em High (1968) and this movie featured Eastwood as a tough guy lawman who borderlines on vigilantism and Hingle as his superior who has a heavy disdain for the way that he does things.
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Out of the orginal poster art when they were advertised and also duplicated on the front covers of first run VHS and DVD boxes, this is the only Dirty Harry movie where his gun isn't on the poster or front covers.
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Charles B. Pierce wrote the line "Go ahead, make my day." The line was inspired by a warning that his father would say to Pierce when he was a child. According to Pierce, his father warned him "When I come home tonight and the yard has not been mowed, you're gonna make my day."
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This movie was not the first time that Clint Eastwood directed himself as Dirty Harry, though it is the first entire movie where he did so. Eastwood directed the suicide jumper scene in Dirty Harry (1971).
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The only Dirty Harry movie that has flashbacks.
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The only Dirty Harry movie where the character responsible for the killings Harry investigates isn't killed by Harry at the end. He lets her go.
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Clint Eastwood is seen wearing Gargoyles sunglasses, which would later surface in The Terminator (1984). The latter movie also spawned an ad campaign with Arnold Schwarznegger wearing the sunglasses, saving the company from bankruptcy. Iconic and unique looking, Gargoyles Classics are considered amongst the best safety glasses ever made and are still manufactured. Gargoyles were adopted by the military as official U.S. Eye Armor in the 1990s. With different colors and side shields, they were well publicized props during the television series ER (1994).
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Clint Eastwood's 11th movie for Warner Brothers.
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Horace's (Albert Popwell's) shotgun is a 12-gauge Smith & Wesson Model 3000. It is later used by Mick (Paul Drake).
Sudden Impact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sudden Impact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sudden Impact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sudden Impact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sudden Impact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sudden Impact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sudden Impact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sudden Impact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sudden Impact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sudden Impact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sudden Impact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sudden Impact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sudden Impact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sudden Impact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sudden Impact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sudden Impact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Sudden Impact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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