![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z022716dirtyharry_trivia.png\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Matthew Jackson<\/b> and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong> <\/b>present 11 Lucky Facts About Dirty Harry<\/em><\/a><\/strong>. Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 2. FRANK SINATRA WAS SET TO STAR.<\/span><\/strong> \n 7. EASTWOOD DID HIS OWN STUNTS.<\/span><\/strong> \n 8. EASTWOOD DIRECTED ONE SCENE HIMSELF.<\/span><\/strong> \n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Matthew Jackson and Mental_Floss present 11 Lucky Facts About Dirty Harry. Here are three of my favorites… 2. FRANK SINATRA WAS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14892,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14890\/revisions\/14892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nThe idea that anyone but Clint Eastwood could play Harry Callahan seems strange, but a number of other stars were considered for the title role first, among them Steve McQueen, Robert Mitchum, and Frank Sinatra. Sinatra was actually attached to the film at one point, but pulled out because of an injury to his hand. So Eastwood stepped in, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nFor the scene in which Harry chases down Scorpio, who has kidnapped a busload of children, the character is required to leap from a trestle bridge onto the top of the moving bus. If you watch the scene carefully, you\u2019ll notice that it\u2019s not a stuntman making the leap. Eastwood did it himself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nDuring one night of shooting, Siegel had to miss work because of the flu, leaving the production without a director. So Eastwood took over. The scene in which Harry confronts a suicidal man on the roof of a building was directed by Eastwood.<\/p>\n