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[[File:Dirty_Harry_6418.jpg|frame| Dirty Harry [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You|Harry Callahan is about to shoot you.]]]]
 
 
{{quote|''"Go ahead, make my day."''|'''Harry Callahan''', ''Sudden Impact''}}
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* ''The Dead Pool'' (1988): Callahan investigates a series of celebrity deaths who had been predicted to die in a ''dead pool'' racket -- and finds that his own name is on the list.
 
The first movie in the franchise was named to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2012.
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* [[Accidental Pervert]]: "Now I know why they [[Incredibly Lame Pun|call you]] Dirty Harry."
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* [[Dead Partner]]: Pretty much all of Callahan's partners end up dead or in the hospital, as he notes.
* [[Description Porn]]:
{{quote|{{smallcapssmall-caps|Harry Callahan}}: "I know what you're thinking, punk. You're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?' Now, to tell you the truth, I forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and will blow your head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself a question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"}}
* [[Double Don't Know]]: In ''The Enforcer'', one of the terrorists wants to know something:
{{quote|'''Bobby''': Did Wanda deliver the [Ransom Note] tape to the cops?
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** And his partner could also have laid charges; he was close by and saw the whole thing, and Scorpio shot at him, too.
*** You're forgetting that Scorpio did all that while wearing a balaclava.
**** The fact that Scorpio has a fresh knife wouldwound exactly like the one Harry gave the guy in the balaclava and the same voice would be enough to take to a jury, and would be rather hard for the defense attorney to explain away.
**** Presumably they also have a recording of Scorpio's voice from the ransom call. Police department forensics started using voiceprint identification in 1967.
**** And while its a bit early for DNA matching, a simple blood type matching between Scorpio and what the masked assailant left all over Harry's knife would add more circumstantial evidence to the pile.
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