In 1991, I was a boy of five-years of age, and the babysitter had knocked out on the sofa that Saturday night. This movie came out on television, late night,and I watched it uninterrupted from start-to-finish. It forever changed me; I wanted to be Dirty Harry. I thought it was such a great film, and this scene, this music, so haunting and morose, it really grabbed me. For the next several weeks I became obsessed with Dirty Harry. And once i developed into an older guy, I visited San Francisco, CA to see the places where the movie had been shot. The lake or small water lake no longer exists as does the vacant land -- gone for good. Now, nothing but condos and apartments abound. I love this movie, and I love Dirty Harry. There's a little Dirty Harry in all of us.

@eldridgedavis

3 жыл бұрын

Wow. Thanks for sharing.

@edwardgaines6561

3 жыл бұрын

That oak tree in _The Shawshank Redemption_ no longer exists either, so I feel ya. That's the power of movies, man! Forever in our hearts!

@theadventuresofjavier8698

2 жыл бұрын

Did he actually toss his badge in the water? Thanks for sharing

@revokdaryl1

2 жыл бұрын

You're the exact same age as me. Your memory is quite impressive, I must say. I can't remember much of anything before 8 years of age. This is a fantastic film though and I loved it. I first saw it when I was 12.

@Voxac100b

2 жыл бұрын

@@theadventuresofjavier8698 yes

The music when he is holding his badge star in his hand and his frustrations/reflections in life totally resonate. Love the mysticism of the sound of the music.

Next year this movie will be 50 years old, folks. Time goes by fast.

Legendary scene. Wonderful actor. And wonderful soundtrack.

@imbluz

5 жыл бұрын

Melancholy, sobering and even romantic in its attempt to bring our much needed conclusion. It's not supposed to be a happy ending despite Scorpio being killed. His vision of wanting a clean society was not possible and he realizes that his effort was unappreciated and unsupported by his department.

@danielnovosad3392

3 жыл бұрын

Love the music from this entire movie 🍿 🎥

@StylinOnYaKidz

3 жыл бұрын

This piece of music paired with the scene of them pulling the girl out of the well earlier have affected me more than most.. To the point I needed to search it up just now and relive it

@jameshughes9329

2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant film, Clint is one of my favorite actors of all time. Special mention in this movie though for Andrew Robinson who played Scorpio magnificently evil

4/21/21, the day after. 50 years later and I can understand how every good cop in America could feel like Harry does when he tosses that badge.

I guess Harry said to himself, “ I’m done with this shit”

@FoulWeatherFriend385

3 ай бұрын

Everyone from the mayor down to his boss kowtowed to a serial killer and it almost got a busload of kids killed had it not been for Harry disobeying their orders. I'd say he was frustrated. lol

Fun fact: Due to miscommunication, the prop crew only brought one police badge to the shoot that day, so Clint Eastwood had to get the throw exactly right on the first take or else it would've cost the studio extra money to have to go back and film it again on location on a different day.

Beautiful soundtrack. That's a fender rose piano. Distinct sound. Even though he kills the villain we are strangely unsatisfied and so is Harry. It's not just about getting the bad guy. This movie is more profound than that. It's making a poetic statement of how justice and order has been obscured by the complicated judicial system. His dream, whatever it is, never came true.

@mikemanners1069

Жыл бұрын

I did not know what a fender rose piano was until you make this comment...

@Foghornish

10 ай бұрын

It's a fender rhodes. I had one (suitacase73) and although one speaker was caput on the amp you could nail this sound. The chromatic part at the beginning was obviously recoded separately but holding down the sustain pedal. Fairly simple to play but sounded incredible and mellow (and sad). I'm not sure how Schiffrin got the synth sound. Possibly layering various moog parts or a polymoog.

this ending will forever be one of the greatest endings ive ever watched

Probably one of my favorite movie endings. No idea why I like the music and the credits rolling so much. Its something that just transcends words.

A+ movie with an A+ ending. By the time the credits roll and you hear the melancholy theme you feel as though you were with Harry every step of the way.

@spaceace3167

9 жыл бұрын

Johnny Favorite We all were with him. When i 1st saw this i was 10 yrs old. I am still with him!!!

@johnnyfavorite1194

9 жыл бұрын

Me too. Too bad Clint doesn't want to play Harry again as police commissioner.

@spaceace3167

8 жыл бұрын

too bad we have to get old!!!

@dirtyharry461

7 жыл бұрын

Johnny Favorite that sucked that he threw his badge away though

@jolly7041

7 жыл бұрын

Killer Chillers yeah..being a cop or a detective can effect u in some ways.

Shoots the guy righthanded. Throws the badge with his left. Contradictions between Good and Evil. And the imbalance between left and right ...

@henrybierman8431

Жыл бұрын

I thought he just didn't care

@SharkIey

Ай бұрын

He shots him to do less criminals He throw that badge to stop working for criminals

Even as I watched this as a child many years ago, this ending gave me goosebumps. Clint's acting, Lalo Shifrin's beautiful music, and the cinematography are just so good. Andy Robinson was also excellent as Scorpio. You really empathize with Harry during this scene where he throws his badge in the water. Harry is a man who didn't enjoy killing. Scorpio on the other hand enjoyed it to the fullest extent.

@quentinhirschfeld3547

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't fully agree with this pov.

@quentinhirschfeld3547

Жыл бұрын

@Matrix Reloaded Literally oumne of the most WTF comment I've read

@manco828

2 ай бұрын

I think Harry kind of enjoyed killing bad guys, but once the girl was killed it changed his perspective on things. Like, what's it all for?

A masterpiece of a movie.

The great Lalo Schifrin at his best. Some of the most iconic music ever on film.

What friggin editing...sound...framing. perfect cinema.

Clint Eastwood a southpaw? I love the look of utter disgust when he finally commits to the badge toss. Classic.

Clint Eastwood did an absolute amazing job with this role and the ending credits was so amazing!!

This ending is like a 1970's timewarp - made all the better by Lalo Schifrin's amazing soundtrack.

@grahams_number

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I agree, the ending score takes me instantly back to my childhood in the 1970/80's with resounding fondness and gratitude for that era in film

@victorbianquet3145

4 жыл бұрын

Compatriota nuestro argentino 🇦🇷

@roquefortfiles

2 жыл бұрын

Totally classic. They don't make movies like this anymore. This is a landmark film. When i recently learned how to play piano i found myself trying to figure out this ending piece because it is so iconic. The mood, The time, the 70's

Sometimes life puts you at the end of the road, and force you to quit yourself.

@loopie9978

4 жыл бұрын

But they made 3 more movies? I never understood why the does that

@edwardgaines6561

3 жыл бұрын

@@loopie9978 Money. Moolah!

@Eddie62070

3 жыл бұрын

@@loopie9978 4

@heman5077

2 жыл бұрын

@@loopie9978 because that field makes you comeback, you can't do anything else, the long hours, the hostile work enviornmemt, the damage you take physical and psychological, it becomes part of you, there is no other alternative, you hate it but you have to comeback to it

@loopie9978

2 жыл бұрын

@@heman5077 good point! But i still think they weren't planning on making and more but the money was too good

Watched this last scene many times and just realized Harry shoots right handed and throws left handed

@scottknode898

5 жыл бұрын

He can do things with both hands such as shooting guns

The ending, the gloomy music, Harry throwing his shield away, this was meant to be the very end. But it was so damn successful that they went ahead and got the shield back from the water to make more films. I love all Dirty Harry films, with Dirty Harry being #1.

@imbluz

Жыл бұрын

The Enforcer was my least favorite of the bunch.

@pastlink98

Жыл бұрын

@@imbluz The Enforcer was decent for me. But yes I agree it was my least favorite. Magnum Force and Dirty Harry are tops for me.

Great ending. Great music.

This might be the greatest movie scene ever.

Truly great ending, just great, sombre, sobering and almost maudlin. The seventies had some fantastic endings in cinema, unlike the majority today. This denouement has simplicity AND discipline, obscenely fine stuff.

@dneiss89

7 жыл бұрын

Can you tell me some examples for fantastic endings in 70's cinema?

@manco828

7 жыл бұрын

Five Easy Pieces had a similar dark, brooding end.

@mrkronsteen

6 жыл бұрын

Dennis Neiss marathon man had a similar dark and melancholy ending.

@mrkronsteen

6 жыл бұрын

Dennis Neiss look up marathon man SWALLOW, and three days of Condor ending. Both great somber 70s films like Dirty Harry.

A lot of people view the ending different ways. I don't criticize anyone's. But I always saw this ending as him staring at the killer's dead body, Dirty Harry thinking, "I did what was right. I finally stopped the bastard. Maybe it was by the book, maybe it wasn't. I don't know and I don't much really care. But I know it was right." He pulls out his badge, thinking "Probably lost my job. Whole damn department things I'm too dirty a cop as it is." He tosses it in the lake, saying, "Fuck 'em. I'm done playing nice. I'm doing what's RIGHT. And if the department doesn't understand...fuck the department."

@ronsworld250

4 жыл бұрын

Love the explanation. I think you are spot on with your interpretation of it.

@MD21037

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! "I'm done with this shit!" "All of it!"

@WakanaGojoAE86

9 ай бұрын

Your interpretation is so damn on spot and while I like the sequels too but I also like to think that each sequel is supposed to be a spiritual rather than a direct which are all taking place in different realities and in each reality Dirty Harry is more or less the same but with some minor differences in principles, perception and obviously age too.

@OnafetsEnovap

9 ай бұрын

@@WakanaGojoAE86 Parallel universes... that could work. Aside from a mention of his partner from Magnum Force being brought up in The Enforcer, I think your theory could work. :)

@roquefortfiles

7 ай бұрын

Hollywood does not have the courage for great endings like this today. The films they make today are fucking junk compared to classics like this. That is why this film and this ending will continue to resonate. You won't be seeing people talking about how great the Marvel universe movies were in 50 years.

Hats off to Lalo Schifrin's amazing score.

Superb music by Lalo Schifrin. Adapted into a song, 'This Side Of Forever,' sung by Roberta Flack over the end titles of Sudden Impact

Top Masterpiece in everything: direction, casting, musics, opening & end titles

The ending suggested that there would not be a sequel but the movie was such a hit that Warner Bros had to make another one and the rest is history. It must have been a blast at that time to watch it in a packed theater with the audience rooting for Harry, especially in that liberal era

One of the best American movies ever made!

That organ theme. The strings. Amazing.

You can really feel for Harry: he's spent his life fighting crime and bureaucracy but is so disillusioned with it all. The brilliant music really captures the emotions!

In a weird way, I keep coming back to this closing scene because part of me sees it as a happy ending: the music included. Go figure....

@pkf81366

5 жыл бұрын

I agree!

@captainh3831

4 жыл бұрын

Well it sort of is because Scorpio got what he had coming. In the end, the laws could no longer protect him.

@StylinOnYaKidz

3 жыл бұрын

Such a spooky scene its enchanting

2211Children grew up watching these films. Legendary.

I was 20 like 25 years ago when I saw dirty harry when Clint Eastwood threw his badge that scene alone is one of the greatest if not best memorable classical legendary scenes in Hollywood movie history that scene alone will never be forgotten at least in the world 🌎 of movie goers,critics, in entertainment the roll Clint Eastwood was born to play a zillion thumps up.

love this film

The location where this scene was filmed is today a major lifestyle center called Larkspur Landing. A Marriott Courtyard and townhouse exist where this quarry was once located.

One of the gloomiest ending to a movie I've ever seen!

Love this ending

Shoots right handed but threw the badge left handed.

One of the all time greatest crime thriller movies. Maybe thats partly down to nostalgia for a time thats long gone and the fact that a lot of today’s movies are nothing more than forgettable crap that wont be remembered in another 50 minutes, let alone 50 years.

The embodiment and tone of the term "Quiet quitting" You could hardly believe there would be a sequel after this ending. You felt like Harry was completely done.

A perfect film.

They shouldnt have made sequels.They sully this masterpiece.He, like Christopher Reeve is such an american hero.

All the Dirty Harry movies were great, but this is one scene that always stands out because of how gloomy it ended the movie.

Great job

I wonder if anyone ever jumped in that pond looking for that badge...

My dad always remembers his badge number

Scary bloodthirsty film love it.

The rest of the Dirty Harry's are lesser films. The whole point of this film is a man burnt out cleaning up society's mistakes. At the end, he chucks his office and says enough.

@milesmayhem5440

5 жыл бұрын

No way. Magnum Force was the bomb!

@noherekruger3738

5 жыл бұрын

Totally disagree. Magnum Force was the fucking shit.

@connorbrennan4233

5 жыл бұрын

@@milesmayhem5440 But looking back, Magnum Force feels at times like it makes too obvious some of the themes that were touched on already in the original, so it feels a tad repetitive. Still an entertaining film, though.

@scottknode898

5 жыл бұрын

King David Magnum Force was a classic and became a successful sequel. It was one my favorite Dirty Harry movies and watched it today on AMC

@1223jamez

4 жыл бұрын

@@milesmayhem5440 Dirty Harry was the best, but Magnum Force was not too shabby-great film also. Dead Pool was the worst.

Some day long in the future, when they dig up Larkspur Landing, they'll find that badge.

Everytime I see this scene not only do I see the frustrations he has as a cop but I see how let down he was that his collegues on the force didnt listen to him knowing that the scorpio was the killer and that he was a psychopath Andy Robinson is a fantastic actor I remember him in cobra and childs play 3 And he also played a villian again in an episode of the incredible hulk in the first season with bill bixby and lou ferrigno

quel acteur quel musique quel film , sans doute l'une des plus belle musique de film que j'ai entenndu

Magnum force scene on aircraft carrier... Callahan strangling...the rogue motorcycle cop...in the dark cafeteria..💪💪🇺🇸 Eastwood is a legend

Musique d'une nostalgie contagieuse. Clint Eastwood toujours aussi désabusé. Une merveille pour un film qui vieilli bien

We need more videos 👍

How many of us are so fed up and just want to "throw our badge into the river".......

@mitchellandrachelm5700

Жыл бұрын

👍mitchell

Edgar Wright mentioned in the commentary for Shaun Of The Dead (2004) that Phillip's death music sounded similar to the ending theme of this film and I agree, they do sound similar

The proverbial: The community's not worth saving. Cut

Based on this ending I'm guessing they never intended to make a sequel, let alone 4 of them

@connorbrennan4233

3 жыл бұрын

Nor should they have made them.

In my opinion, if it wasn't for the sequels, this ending would have been great. I mean when you think about it, even though Harry defeated and killed the bad guy, Scorpio in a way got the better of him. Because he forced Harry to go against his oath to "Serve and Protect" and go full vigilante on Scorpio. Because of this, Scorpio indirectly ruined Harry's career as a police officer, hence why he threw away his badge. He could have also thrown it away because the system is corrupt, and let killers off easy and there is possibly a line between law and justice. How every time he goes out of his way to stop the bad guy, he's the one getting the short end of the stick, while Scorpio is about to make off with $200K. Overall it just makes the movie better if it does a deep meaning behind it.

@MikkoSimila

3 жыл бұрын

I think it all of that you wrote. This entire movie is telling that killer like Scorpio has rights and he can get Off easy. This ending shows how far he as a Police had to go to stop the killer.

@wongsifu460

2 жыл бұрын

Well since Scorpio body disappeared in the lake and no one witnessed Harry blasting his head clean off. I guess Harry got away pretty well

I believe this location is now the ferry building in Tiburon CA just a few miles north of San Francisco

American Justice is in the pits seems to be the suggestion of this final scene from a classic 70's Movie.

throws badge : 4 sequels lol anyway, I see this ending as a reminder that sometimes bureaucraZy (pun intended) is too heavy/complicated that you need a vigilante (not a cop) to defeat someone like Scorpio

Merci c la plus belle musique de film que j'ai entendu merci

Think he actually threw it, think its still in the water?

Hey guys, every dirty harry movie ends the same way.

First time I watched this was about three months ago at my friend's dorm. Me and some other guys from my hometown got together to watch something every Wednesday, but we also had a DnD league and so everyone was preparing his character for the first meeting while this played in the background. I remember we finally finished our characters with about half an hour left in the movie and we got to the part where the bad guy has the one kid hostage and Harry has to decide to let him go or risk the life of himself and the hostage when we paused the movie and everyone except Ryan went to go eat on campus (which was like a two minute walk) and when we came back Ryan was ten minutes into an episode of trailer park boys. I said "what about Dirty Harry" Ryan said "I finished it"

it's almost like the Joker and the The Batman. Just think how great a Joker Andy Robinson would have played. Just think!!

@roquefortfiles

2 жыл бұрын

Do you think Heath Ledger borrowed a little of Andy Robinson's Scorpio? I do.

@lavampire100

2 жыл бұрын

@@roquefortfiles YUP!! today, Andy Robinson would have one an oscar for his performance in Dirty Harry. and if shown today for the first time, Dirty Harry would have wowed the reviewers and movie buffs. Yes, Dirty Harry is simply a Batman vs. the Joker set in San Francisco.

@roquefortfiles

2 жыл бұрын

@@lavampire100 Good analogy. I've brought up the Scorpio connection before. I don't know specifically if Ledger modelled any of the Joker off of Robinson's portrayal but when I saw Batman and Ledger came out and got into it,.. something inside of me said.. "Where have i seen this?... to me this is Scorpio". The speech patterns.. "no no no no don't die on me now you rotten oinker".

great fender rhodes sound

It's ok. He got a new one in time for Magnum Force.

@rcaive0875

7 жыл бұрын

Yep! I wonder if he told the department, "Uh, my dog ate my badge. I need a new one."

@chrismc410

7 жыл бұрын

rcaive08 He likely said the punk grabbed me and it fell in. It wouldn't be far from the truth

@rcaive0875

7 жыл бұрын

chrismc410 lol...right!

@chrismc410

7 жыл бұрын

rcaive08 here's a more likely explanation more suited to the Harry we know: Chief: Where's your star, Callahan? Harry: It became a seven point suppository, Chief. Chief: What did you say? Harry: I said I stuck it in his ass!

@montrosepatriot

7 жыл бұрын

the badge toss was a homage 2 High Noon (later repeated in Point Break (1991) - Harry was part of a system which did not care about victims rights back then while the CJ system was a revolving door

Sometimes been a good cop in a bad town is really sucks.

best , cop show ending ever ....

2211. That's my birthday. How cool

Estraordinaria está escena final de la película Harry el sucio muy emotiva también la vi cuando tenía 11 años y apartir de aquí Clint Eastwood paso a ser mi idolo americano

he has to return that badge when he quits, he can't just throw it in the water.

My exact thoughts on life 1:00

Wait a minute Harry Callaghan aka Harry1017UK That's pretty ironic

They should have ended the DH franchise with that scene, no sequels. 1971, has anything changed? The dedicated and competent guardian quits in disgust after fighting both the killer and the city. Callahan could have come back in a script as a private investigator hired by families, "forget it, Jake. Its Chinatown".

"You have to ask yourself a question. Do you feel lucky, punk? Well, do you ?"

No more righteous killing in movie history.

Since there were three sequels, is there a deleted scene where he jumps in to retrieve it?

Very good ending always interpretated as : "he throws his badge because the system is too rotten, he no longer wants to be part of it". I have another interpretation : he knows he's gone too far, no only this time (killed the maniac, almost killed the boy) but in his whole way. This is an almost melancholic end : the throws away the badge because he knows that he no longer deserves it : he agrees to lose what gave him the right to kill and "make justice". Now he recognizes that what he does, even if "legitimate", put him away from the collectivity and he has to resign because he lost what made him human. By willingly losing his police badge he agrees that he quit mankind a long time ago. It is a very dark, sad ending, far from the cynical usual '70 vigilante movie. The ending place is empty from life apart from the boy who fled. This face of evil is dead but when killing him, he also killed himself.

@braulthadrien200

5 жыл бұрын

To sum up better : what he does is not a police work. So he realizes it's pointless to keep the badge.

@braulthadrien200

4 жыл бұрын

@@scottknode898 sure But as you said it's the producer's thing. For me the best would have been to make to sequel at all and keep it to that ambiguous end. But that is a very personal point. Harry is a suffering and lonely guy away from God and hope and I think it's what gave the first film its very specific taste. The sequels made him a hard boiled but righteous cop. In the first film he is not that righteous.

@imfsresidentotaku9699

Ай бұрын

⁠@@braulthadrien200He is pretty righteous, even in the first film. It’s just that the law is poorly served by an inept, incompetent bureaucracy.

Hey mom, I was stage hand in the Dirty Harry movie, wait for the credits! .. oh.

All my respect to police officer thats all

Harry Calahan was dissatisfied with the Criminal Justice system, imagine him now a days

Happiness is a Warm Gun

Any fish in that pond?

Larkspur Landing.

The only question I have is how did Harry return in Magnum Force?

How does the audience know he is unrepentant?

What scares me Clint as the same nails as you and me

I Guess He Wasn't So Lucky.

im trying to find the clip where dirty harry is in office and as he throws his badge onto table he says "eat it" can't find that clip nowhere..

@ApartmentKing66

5 жыл бұрын

That was "Magnum Force," but it wasn't his badge he throws; it was a slug fired from a gun. He throws it at Briggs while getting patched up at the hospital.

2023: Dirty Harriet from SF 🌈

Así pasa cuando el policía se obsesiona con la resolución de un caso. Así pasa en todas profesiones,cuando el sujeto es responsable de sus actividades. Recordemos al policía obsesionado por la captura de Jean Val Jean,en Los Miserables de Víctor Hugo.

Well, aren't you a handsome son of a bitch.

I don't remember this ending, was it always like this?

If Harry followed the law, he would have put the guy away. Very clearly. But because he was reckless and vengeful, he created more problems.

@imfsresidentotaku9699

Ай бұрын

No, he fixed problems. Scorpio would’ve continued his murders and terrorism if Harry didn’t kill him. Harry had tried to “put the guy away,” but they let him go because of the way he caught the killer and acquired the evidence, and after Scorpio got out, the city kept on giving into his demands, so Harry decided that the only way to put an end to it was to take matters into his own hands. While he might’ve been vengeful, he wasn't necessarily reckless, as he cared about stopping a crime in any way possible, and his feelings and actions were completely justified; a violent criminal was on the loose, and those in charge of the law kept failing to fix the problem. It’s like you watched a completely different movie.