A Fistful of Dollars is remembered today as the film that fundamentally changed the Western genre, but at the time of its 1964 release almost no one anticipated what it would become. It was an Italian production assembled on a modest budget, with an American actor known mainly from television in the central role, and…
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Things I Like: Harry Callahan (Dirty Harry Series)
Harry Callahan is one of the greatest action heroes in the history of movies. Clint Eastwood (despite his difficult personality) is a phenomenal actor, and you have to commend him for taking on more than one legendary role. But I would say that Dirty Harry is my favorite of them all, to be honest. He…
Things I Hate: Harlan Rook (Dirty Harry Series)
Harlan Rook is the final villain of the Dirty Harry series in the last movie The Dead Pool. He was the most similar antagonist to the original bad guy Scorpio but in a cheaper imitation sort of way. I am not sure if he was based on a real life serial killer like Scorpio was…
Things I Like: Samantha Walker (Dirty Harry Series)
Samantha Walker is one of the major characters in the final Dirty Harry movie The Dead Pool. She was not the greatest damsel in distress but she was far from being a bad love interest for Harry Callahan. She is a journalist and she gets dangerously close to the serial killer Harlan Rook. You have…
Things I Hate: Mick (Dirty Harry Series)
Mick is one of the lamer bad guys in the Dirty Harry series. He’s a pretty evil dude, but not the cool kind of evil like Scorpio was. He’s just an absolute trash human being. He’s not a super serial killer that must be stopped, but a horrid individual who slow-burns society into a worse…