Dirty Harry

On the data. Five films, entirely episodic. None of them depends on the plot of another and there is no arc to follow, so release order is a recommendation rather than a requirement. What continuity there is runs through the supporting cast. Lieutenant Bressler appears in the first and third, Inspector DiGiorgio in the first three and is killed off in The Enforcer, and Donnelly turns up in the fourth as a lieutenant and the fifth as a captain. The running joke is Harry's partners, most of whom do not survive the film; the only one who does is Al Quan in The Dead Pool. No film states a year. All five are set in the present day of their release, in San Francisco. Harry's age is never given on screen either, and the birthdate that circulates on fan sites is not in any reliable source, so no dates are listed here. What is documented is on the production side: the part was originally written for a man in his mid fifties and Frank Sinatra was considered, while Eastwood was forty one when he made the first and fifty eight by the last. One thing that looks like continuity and is not: Albert Popwell appears in the first four films as a different character each time, a bank robber, then a pimp, then a militant, then one of Harry's partners. He is regularly logged as a recurring character. He is not. Eastwood directed only Sudden Impact. The other four had four different directors. The two famous lines belong to different films. Do you feel lucky is the 1971 original; go ahead, make my day is Sudden Impact, twelve years later.

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