Dirty Harry
Summary
From gritty urban landscapes to dystopian succeeding wastelands , there were plenty of classic movie anti - heroes that admirers of Clint Eastwood inDirty Harrywould love . Detective Harry Callaghan educate a report as a no - nonsense cop who was not afraid to step outside of the confines of the legal philosophy to get what he wanted and this type of personality has been seen in a miscellany of movies across action , offense , film noirs , and other genres . Considering this , there were piles of anti - hero protagonists who demonstrated the same lone savage and determined tendencies ofDirty Harry .
Not all the anti - heroes who were reminiscent ofDirty Harryworked in jurisprudence enforcement and some were even more known for their reprehensible behaviour , but , despite this , they still possess many of the same qualities as Callaghan and it ’s well-situated to compare the two . From the lone - Hugo Wolf vigilantism of Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese’sTaxi Driverright toHumphrey Bogart ’s iconic portrayal of Detective Philip MarloweinThe Maltese Falcon , heap of cinematic anti - heroes have aspects of Callaghan ’s no - nonsensicality nature . There were plenty ofclassic movie anti - heroes that Dirty Harry fan would bed .
10Travis Bickle
Robert De Nero in Taxi Driver (1976)
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Travis Bickle inTaxi Drivercould be seen as a dark mirror reflection of the no - trumpery bull act by Clint Eastwood inDirty Harry . Much like Detective Harry Callaghan , Travis was disgusted by the crime , decay , and execution that plagued his urban center , but , without the legal system behind him , he decided to take matter into his own hands . The dark consequences ofTravis ’ actions in his shootout against ponce and felon in Martin Scorsese’sTaxi Drivercould have been Callaghan ’s storyif instead of becoming a police force ship’s officer he was a troubled state of war old-timer that order left behind .
9Snake Plissken
Kurt Russell in Escape from New York (1981) and Escape from L.A. (1996)
The anti - hero Snake Plissken from John Carpenter’sEscape from New YorkandEscape from L.A.was once a lieutenant in the United States Army Special Forces before turning to a life of crime andhad a draw in common with Detective Harry Callaghan fromDirty Harry . jade out and cynical towards the conventional way of doing thing , Snake , like Harry , was unafraid to cover professional boundaries to reach his design . With his own code of jurist , Pilssken also had the position and charisma of Callghan and represented how his fibre might pretend in a law-breaking - ridden dystopian future .
8Sam Spade
Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Both Sam Space fromThe Maltese Falconand Harry Callaghan lodge in law enforcement jobs in a gritty urban environment and were unafraid to take on the offense they witnessed heading - on . Each possessed a no - nonsense position and an unflinching determination for justice , and admirers of Clint Eastwood inDirty Harrywould be sure to enjoy witnessing Humphrey Bogart ’s sardonic depiction of Spade inThe Maltese Falcon . A major figure in the growing of the severely - boiled individual detective in fabrication , without Space there would have been noDirty Harry .
7John Rambo
Sylvester Stallone in the Rambo franchise
The toughened guy deportment , incredible resiliency , and good knowledge of Vietnam War veteran John Rambo meant he had a mass in common with the anti - hero , boundary - press detective Harry Callaghan . Those with a love for theDirty Harryseries and Clint Eastwood ’s willingness to stop at nothing to achieve his aims would sure be impressed by Sylvester Stallone ’s twist as the action hero Rambo throughoutthe five - movieRambofranchise . While the two characters have unlike line stories , the lone - savage brain , raw aggressive nature , andwayward vigilantism made them two sides of the same coin .
6Jim Stark
James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
While viewers never got to see Detective Harry Callaghan as a teenager , it ’s soft to opine that without the sense of purpose of his job as a cop , he may have been something like Jim Stark fromRebel Without a Cause . As a teenage anti - poor boy and a histrionics of the struggle between different genesis , James Dean as Stark brought much of the same flashiness and wayward finding encounter through Clint EastwoodinDirty Harry . As an iconic exemplar of somebody who wo n’t let companionship dictate their behaviour , there ’s a lot of comparisons that can be made between Callaghan and Stark .
5Scottie Ferguson
James Stewart in Vertigo (1954)
James Stewart as Scottie Ferguson in Alfred Hitchcock ’s Vertigo bestow a colored obsessional nature to this story of a secret investigator embroiled in a lurid conspiracy that would surely be of interest to adorer ofDirty Harry . While Scottie ’s tactics were different from that of Detective Harry Callaghan he was still proven to be a gentleman’s gentleman who was more than willing to sweep limit to achieve his goals . As a tense and suspenseful psychological thriller , the excited weighting ofthe account inVertigowas just as electrifying as the game of computed tomography - and - shiner seen inDirty Harry .
4Dave Bannion
Glenn Ford in The Big Heat (1953)
WhileThe Big Heatmay not get as violent asDirty Harry , the sorry and determined narration of Dave Bannion , played by Glenn Ford , taking down a crime mob that assure the city had expunge similarities to the Clint Eastwood movie . Much like Detective Harry Callaghan , Bannion was not to go outside the confines of the law to take out his enemiesand was guided by his moral scope rather than stringently stick to the sound system . The Big Heatwas a gritty film noir that helped lay the base for later criminal offence movies likeDirty Harry .
3Randal McMurphy
Jack Nicholson as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
One factor that defined both Randal McMurphy fromOne Flew Over the Cuckoo ’s Nest , who was played byJack Nicholson in one of his dependable roles , and Detective Harry Callaghan was their willingness to arise against authority . The deviation between the two was that , inDirty Harry , Callaghan stepped outside of the law for the greater good , while inOne Flew Over the Cuckoo ’s Nest , McMurphy ’s goal were often guided by self - interest . Despite this , those who loved theDirty Harryseries would probably get a bang out of McMurphy ’s antics and its heartfelt story do in a psychiatric infirmary .
2Philip Marlowe
Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep (1946)
The detective Philip Marlowe was created by crime writer Raymond Chandler , magnificently impersonate by Humphrey Bogart in the classic film noirThe Big Sleep , and has issue forth to correspond the quintessential lone - wolf detective of crime fable . As a character who was both a wise - cracking , hard - imbibition , private eye , and a subdued and contemplative intellect , Marlowe contained aspect of Dirty Harry ’s characteristicswhile stay a unique and compelling classic grapheme . Those who love theDirty Harryseries would sure find a lot to admire about Marlowe ’s character and the wild bozo chase he found himself on inThe Big Sleep .
1The Man With No Name
Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone’s Dollar Trilogy
Those with a beloved for the anti - hero antics of Detective Harry Callaghan inDirty Harryshould see no further than Clint Eastwood ’s other most famous function , as The Man With No Name inSergio Leone’sDollars Trilogy , for a unexampled protagonist to relish . Across three movies , A handful of Dollars , For a Few dollar More , andThe Good , the Bad and the Ugly , Eastwood embodied this quiet and calculated cowboy with such effectiveness that he became one of the best iconic characters in all movie theatre . Much like Callaghan , The Man With No Name was a lone wolf of great unity .
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Clint Eastwood stars in the westerly Dirty Harry as a no - nonsense San Francisco fuzz who takes the natural law into his own manpower in pursuit of a serial orca , Scorpio . Directed by Don Siegel and featuring a memorable score by Lalo Schifrin , the film is known for its iconic catchphrases and acute action scenes , and has influenced countless films and TV show in the days since its release .
