Dirty Harry

Revealing mistake: Near the end the psycho killer pays a black man to beat him up so that he can then blame the injuries on Dirty Harry. Watch the killer's hairdo as he gets punched and beaten: a couple of rear-view scenes show an obviously fake wig, intended to look like the killer's own bad-hair-day style. (01:16:05)

Revealing mistake: When Harry kills Scorpio with the last bullet the deadly wounded Scorpio looks back over his shoulder while he is flying into the lake to prepare for the dive. (01:36:15)

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Revealing mistake: When Harry is drinking his cup of coffee with Lt. Bressler at the police station, look at the cup Harry is drinking from and you can see that is empty.

Revealing mistake: When Scorpio robs the liquor store, the bottle that he was going to purchase is used to hit the clerk over the head, but you can see it is empty.

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Revealing mistake: In the sidewalk scene, after one of the robbers leaves the bank and dives into the car, and it drives towards Harry, you can see a wire rope that appears to have been used to either stop the car from going too far or has been used to help roll the car. (00:02:07)

Revealing mistake: When Scorpio slaps the boy in the school bus, you can see that Scorpio's hand actually misses the boy's face.

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Mistakes

Continuity mistake: In the early scene when Harry walks across the street to confront the wounded robber on the street ("Did he fire six shots or only five?"), the shotgun used by the robber is lying several feet from the robber's hand, but when he reaches the robber, the camera shot shows the shotgun just a few inches from the robber's left hand. (00:13:00)

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Quotes

Harry Callahan: I know what you're thinking."Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?

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Trivia

Trivia: In real-life, Andy Robinson (Scorpio) is a pacifist who dislikes guns. Every time he fired a gun during the early stages of principal photography, he would flinch violently, so director Don Siegel was forced to close down production for a time and send Robinson to a school where he would learn to fire a gun convincingly. In spite of this, he still blinks when he shoots.

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Questions

Question: Is Callahan holding the binoculars upside down when he is peering down on the apartments looking for Scorpio? He is on the rooftop with the Jesus Saves Sign. They look upside down to me. (00:38:39)

Answer: Yes the binoculars are upside down.

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