How famous?
"In which 1971 film did Clint Eastwood, playing the character Harry Callahan, speak the famous line: 'Go ahead, make my day'?"
~~ Question 1 in today's Herald Sun quiz.
You gots to know.
"Go ahead, make my day" is from Sudden Impact (1983), not Dirty Harry (1971).
And anyone who wants to give it the "Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" correction business can get well and trulied.
Posted by: Tony | 23 April 2009 at 18:24
We had the same thing in a quiz for a work competition. I saw it after the questions were finalised and was a bit "err, you might want to check that one".
They didn't, and decided to pay both answers to avoid chaos. Rubbish.
Posted by: Adam 1.0 | 23 April 2009 at 22:33
The far more challenging Dirty Harry trivia question is - which actor appeared in the first 4 Dirty Harry movies, apart from Clint.
Posted by: RT | 24 April 2009 at 07:41
Every Dr. Spin knows
a lie told often enough, becomes The Truth.
Posted by: Bwca Brownie | 24 April 2009 at 09:08
My first guess answer to that question from RT, would be
Don 'Bodysnatchers' Seigel, who co-owned the bar in Carmel with Eastwood (which featured in Play Misty) but I guess you mean speaking lines, so is it one of the cop colleagues - Inspector Giardino?
I'm so old, Clint will always be Rowdy Yates to me.
Posted by: Bwca Brownie | 24 April 2009 at 09:19
Love Clint Eastwood... But can't remember for the life of me what the name of the movie is but I can here him saying it in my head. Uhhh... I hate when my brain does that.
Posted by: auto glass arizona | 24 April 2009 at 11:57
Guardino a good guess Brownie. He was in DH and The Enforcer but not Magnum F or Sudden Impact.
So many good lines in DH "No, don't pass out on me now cop! No, no, no, no, no".
Posted by: RT | 24 April 2009 at 12:29
"Which actor appeared in the first 4 Dirty Harry movies, apart from Clint?"
Albert Popwell.
Always found it curious the way he popped up in the four fillums as different characters, with the two that stand out being the bank robber in DH - "I gots to know" - and Big Ed in TE.
Not that there's anything wrong with actors appearing in lots of "connected" films; after all, Clint's films are full of familiar fantastic faces: Matt Clarke, Harry Guardino, Geoffrey Lewis, Bill McKinney.
Brownie's onto the thrust of the post. "a lie told often enough, becomes The Truth." Ignorance spreads. What's the bet whoever thought up the question hasn't seen the film, but is just parroting something they heard elsewhere. The same goes for Neil Diamond. His name is not Noah Kaminski, Danishevski, Polakski, Belushi, Bialistock, Babuska. His name IS Neil Diamond.
Posted by: Tony T | 26 April 2009 at 20:22
Haha that is one of my most used questions in my corporate triva - never fails to land a few suckers ;-)
Posted by: The Green Man | 15 May 2009 at 00:45
Dave asked it once.
Posted by: Tony T | 16 May 2009 at 11:25
Did we get it right??
Posted by: The Greener Man | 16 May 2009 at 15:44
We did.
Posted by: Tony T | 16 May 2009 at 17:36