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From: bonaccio@uvm-gen.UUCP (Tony Bonaccio)
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Subject: Re: Dirty Harry's score
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Date: Sun, 3-Feb-85 11:35:40 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  3 11:35:40 1985
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      This is going to sound like the start of a letter to Dear Abby, but I
NEVER respond to the net, so please excuse any glaring errors.
  
      Just had to add my two bits to this one.
 
      In The Gauntlet, which is indeed NOT a Drity Harry movie, Eastwood
played a cop named Ben Schockley (the start of the Dirty Ben series? Sounds
like a cross between a SF cop and a gentle bear...) and Sondra Locke played
a witness who was about to come clean with some major organized crime info.
Rest of plot becomes guessable.  In any event, my favorite line was also
from the scene with the biker, but I recall it going like this:
 
Biker:     Hey, that's my Chopper, Charlie !!!
 
Eastwood:  And this is my Gun, Clyde.
 
     Anyway, my most significant comment on this movie is about the number of 
folks who DIDN'T buy it;  I remember thinking that Eastwood must've been
shooting (heh-heh) for the record for most rounds fired in a single 90-min 
flick.  I distinctly recall not many people actually getting hit, though.
In this sense, the movie struck me as almost a parody - Eastwood's once-and-for-all shoot-'em-up whose ultimate goal was to make his fans so sick of gunshots
that they'd have had enough of this kind of movie and he could move on
to documentaries or something.
 
    Unsuccesful, judging from the carnage of Sudden Impact.
 
    In short, if I had to warrant a guess, I'd say the number of people
killed in all Eastwood movies to date was equal to the population of
2.8 average Vermont towns.
 
    And Clint, if you're listening, don't take offense.  I confess to 
actually LIKING this stuff.  And no, I didn't get enough gunshots in
The Gauntlet.
 
Tony Bonaccio
University of Vermont
Burlington (yeah, the skiing's great), Vermont