Dirty Harry

Universally regarded as the worst in the series, and proved a severe financial and critical flop upon release. So, before the bomb can be addressed, the bus must desperately maneuver throughout the city, unable to slow down for anything with an inexperienced driver until it could be directed to an clear area. In the final film in the series, Harry finds out about a game called The Dead Pool, in which people bet on which celebrity will die first. Eventually, someone tries to rig the game by killing certain celebrities. The difference with this film is that the bus initially runs the immediate risk of collisions in a congested traffic area that would have fatally stopped and/or slowed it down and triggered the bomb. The Dead Pool (1988), directed by Buddy Van Horn. In 1965 the first episode of Thunderbirds, "Trapped in the Sky," had a supersonic airliner threatened with a bomb in its landing gear and the occupants are threatened by radiation poisoning by the craft's power source overwhelming its ablative shielding in hours; in Rod Serling's 1966 TV-movie The Doomsday Flight, Edmond O'Brien's bomb would detonate if the airliner descended below 5,000 feet (1500 m); and in the 1975 Japanese movie Crisis Express109 (Shinkansen Daibakuha) (shown in English as The Bullet Train), starring Sonny Chiba, a Shinkansen train will be destroyed if its speed drops below 80 km/h. It is best known for the phrase "Go ahead, make my day" (which is often incorrectly attributed to the first film), and usually considered a better film than The Enforcer. The basic premise of extortion using a bomb that will trigger automatically if a vehicle tries to stop unless a ransom is paid was not original to this movie.

This film's plot revolves around Harry being sent to a small town to follow up a lead in a murder case. An additional parody can be seen in the Leslie Nielsen movie Spy Hard, featuring bus driver Ray Charles. Sudden Impact, directed by Clint Eastwood. A further ironic use of the "Speed" theme came with "Speed for Thespians," an Academy Award-nominated short film, where a group of actors attempt to play out Chekhov's "The Bear" on a New York City bus. Fans of the series hold this to be a weak, overly silly entry, but more casual viewers seem to like it better. The Speed movies were parodied by the Father Ted episode "Speed 3", in which Father Dougal McGuire is trapped on a milk float with a bomb that will detonate if the float goes slower than 4 mi/h (6.4 km/h). The film contains themes of feminism and political correctness. The sequel was a critical and commercial flop.

In this film, Harry is teamed up with a female partner (Tyne Daly), and takes on a terrorist ring. Willem Dafoe played the villain. The Enforcer, directed by James Fargo. Only Sandra Bullock returned to reprise her role. It is generally considered the second best in the series. There is a sequel, Speed 2: Cruise Control, which is set on a cruise ship. By contrast, for all of Harry's strongarm methods, he does not tolerate coldblooded murder of the accused and resolves to stop the killers. That scene, as well as much of the movie, were all filmed on California's Interstate 105.

The main theme of this film is vigilante justice, and the plot revolves around the killings of criminals who have avoided conviction in court by renegade cops. One of the movie's most famous scenes involved the bus having to jump over a gap in an elevated freeway-to-freeway ramp which was still under construction. Magnum Force, directed by Ted Post. The cop and a young woman (Bullock) struggle to keep the bus moving at an acceptable speed despite the congested traffic of the city, while local police provide escort, clear traffic, plan the best route for the bus, and search for the bomber. There were four sequels to the film:. The bomb has multiple triggers, including one that will detonate if the bus goes slower than 50 mi/h (80 km/h). The final scene where Harry throws his badge in the river is a homage to a similiar scene from 1952s' High Noon. Written by Graham Yost, the story is about an Los Angeles police officer (Reeves) who has to stop a insane bomber/extortionist (Hopper) who has rigged a bomb on a public transit bus (a City of Santa Monica Big Blue Bus).

Does he grab it, or ... Speed is a 1994 film directed by Jan de Bont, starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock (her breakout role), and Dennis Hopper. The criminal's gun is but inches from his hand. To set it up, after quite a few shots have been fired, Dirty Harry is holding his .44 Magnum and standing over a criminal. The actual quote from the beginning of the movie follows (the lines in the climatic scene were slightly different).

The movie is popularly credited for being responsible for the famous line: "Do you feel lucky, punk?", although this is in fact a misquote. Another fact is that the character might be modeled after a real-life G.I. discharged because of sexual orientation - some would suggest the fictional Scorpio killer is openly gay. It would be revealed that the fictional portrayal of the Scorpio killer in the film was in fact, a deranged Vietnam veteran who has been discharged under Section Eight. The part went to actor Andrew Robinson, whose portrayal was so chilling that after the film was released he reportedly received several death-threats and was forced to get an unlisted telephone number.

Audie Murphy was first approached to play the Scorpio Killer, but he died in a plane crash before his decision on the offer could be made. The Zodiac has never been caught. The Scorpio Killer, the film's antagonist (a confident psychopathic killer) was based on the real-life Zodiac killer, who was killing people in San Francisco at that time. It was finally accepted by Clint Eastwood.

The title role was originally intended for Frank Sinatra, but after he injured his hand in an accident, it was offered to John Wayne, Steve McQueen, and Paul Newman. The "alienated cop" motif was one subsequently imitated by a number of other films. Dirty Harry is a 1971 film directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood as the eponymous Harry Callahan, a San Francisco detective tracking Scorpio, a serial killer. Eastwood's iconic performance the blunt-speaking, unorthodox detective set the style for a number of his subsequent roles, and the box-office success of the film led to the production of four sequels.