I have a old Motor Trend mag from 74 that talks about this chase scene and movie. MT was on the set when they filmed this chase. And yes Gary Mclarty was the stunt driver in the Chevy and was in it when it rolled. Great chase.
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Stuntman Hal Needam devised the stunt. During the only two advances tests, the cannon was filled with minimum gun powder, and did not perform well. Hal then LOADED UP WITH GUNPOWDER. When triggered, the car flew up over 20 feet and then crashed, sending Hal to the hospital. The sunt seen on film was just the third CANNONROLL ever by STUNTS UNLIMITED. How did they decide how much gun powder to use? They split the difference. It was perfect, but lucky as well.
This was the first "CANNONROLL", but it wasn't an air cannon. It was a real cannon made from tubing and welded tol the roll cage. It shot a railroiad tie through the floor. The trigger was connected to the brake pedal.
@autofuturist I probably should explain the "BRAKE PEDAL TRIGGER" comment. In doing early CANNONROLLS, the car would be first put into an "E-BRAKE SLIDE". The trigger on the parking brake would be disabled, allowing the driver to lock-up the rear tires repeatedly at will. On asphalt, the E-BRAKE is activated, the tire skids, and rubber turns to a grease-like substance. Not the same on sand, however. The car is slid sideways, then the brake pedal is hit.
John Wayne alsmot got the role as Harry Callahan. But he had a few issues with the script and the fact that the role was originally was given to Frank Sinatra, but he couldn't hold a big gun due to a previous injury. Later John Wayne regreted his decision.
This reminds me of the TRUE full-size American cars of a couple generations ago, when the largest models were 18 to 19 feet--and even more--long. And weighed about 2-and-a-half to THREE tons. Them were the days!
Looking at old chase scenes like this one--and then thinking about today's automobiles--really drives home the point of just how BIG our American cars were back then. Boy, I miss them days. SUVs are OK, but they just don't cut it for me.
John Wayne's car is a '69 Plymouth- either a Satellite or a Belvedere. The two-door version of that car was the basis for the legendary Road Runner and GTX musclecars. The Dukes Of Hazzards' Dodge Charger is the cousin to this car.
@Cougar111469 He drove two Plymouth Belvederes. A 1968 used by the Seattle Police Department which he stole from a tow yard and this one was a green 1969 model
In the 1974 action film McQ, starring John Wayne, legendary stunt coordinator Ronnie Rondell and Hal Needham. This shot was planned for the flat and desolate beach, they couldn't hide a ramp with bushes or shrubs; it would look too odd. So Needham invented a way to flip cars: With a device later named the McQ Cannon.
The cannon was loaded with a 3-foot-long telephone pole and a black-powder charge.
Check the video at about 2:49 you can see flames from the cannon.
@kimisdaman During that film, McQ's Firebird got crushed by two trucks. Pretty much if you want an ideal car chase. #1 Don't need CGI, just run it in a real environment and #2 Get a car that can be tough and mean, no weakling green cars.
I'm English, Projectno, but I'm old enough to remember when American cars were far better than junk like Morris Marinas and Vauxhall Vivas we had in England and cost about the same while offering one hell of a lot more. 1.3 litres or 6 litres, tell me what you would sooner have at the time.
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Goof. At the end of the chase, the Cadillac stops and parks facing the ocean. But when John Wayne and Diana Mauldur get off their Plymouth, the Cadillac is already facing the opposite direction. Is that sloppy direction or just great stunt driving?
This is a great movie & so was the Duke other modern cop flick Brannigan. It is really interesting to see Wayne do something besides his usual steady diet of westerns & war movies. Wayne is great in his roles as a modern day, aging but still tough as nails cop. .
@Shoobee63 Actually that big rollover at the end was performed by Gary Mclarty. (He's the stunt guy in "The Blues Brothers" who asks "Do you have a Miss Piggy?".) Hal Needham Did do the first testing of a cannon-roll by an American car and he did get injured. A LONG time ago I got in touch with a U.S. stunt coordinator who told me this information. I did a super zoom on my dvd of Mcq - focussing on the stuntdriver - and yes - it looks like Gary Mclarty!
the duke rules!! i was a toddler in the 70s but grew up watching dads tv. this movie is a bit hokie at times but thats what makes it so entertaining. awesomely bad. and eddie albert was awesome giving the duke a hard time ever step of the way. like the box cover sayes " the cop noone can stop, not even the cops" i love when the duke calls coke "junk". need i say more?
@promixcuous Just the stunt at 1:19 where Wayne's Mopar (Plymouth?) does a nose plant after jumping a sand berm. Holy mackerel, that was enough to firmly plant one's tonsils on the steering wheel with a shower of teeth falling to the floor mat. We don't need no stinkin' shoulder belts... it's the 70s! God help me, I loved that movie growing up; Wayne standing tall. Damn, does anyone even come close today? Eastwood maybe. Gran Torino was a great flick, but not comparing here.
Today's movies will look corny, stupid, silly, or dated in time. We're just too close to them to see it yet. Just think how corny 30's and 40s movies seemed to viewers in '74. At least McQ has enduring style, thanks to Wayne. Corny, yes, but 80s flicks are looking corny to me now. Recalling Wayne's fondness for the old Seattle, and remembering what it was like here as a kid, McQ is a pure nostalgia trip for me. Soon we'll reflect on today's movies and note how silly or exaggerated we looked. :)
Yeah a car chase involving a Hyundai Accent and two Toyotas, which we'll get before long,will never match up to some Detroit V8s in a car chase. When you want to do a car chase, it has to be American cars or, at a pinch, Italian or British supercars.
I've been a cop for almost ten years now. Closing in on 42 and to be honest I'm not as skinny as I used to be. Still work out, don't smoke and rarely drink, but age happens. Once a year I have to take and pass a physical fitness test, but I'm slowing down and the gunbelt I wear today isn't the same one I strapped on as a rookie officer. It happens. I'm also balder then I used to be. Gives me character I guess.
Great lineup of cars for this movie. 1968 Plymouth Bevedere ( with sound dubbed in. Made the 318ci sound like a 440 magnum) 1970 Pontiac Trans Am/455 HO. Damn, they crushed it between 2 trucks. 1971 Chevrolet Biscayne. (I had a '71Biscayne with 400ci, went like hell!!) Then a pair of 1972 Cadillacs. Eddie Albert drove the other one that didn't get shot up on the beach.
Well when this was made you saw the odd Volkswagen and that was it. The Japanese invasion was still a few years off. However, I'm sure the car that was shot up was a Chevrolet and not a Cadillac.
Like wmnaught said, John Wayne was 66/67 years old when he acted in this movie. I admit the movie was a bit corny in places. I think Wayne did a great job as a tough cop.If anybody thinks he wasn't tough just think of how many movies he did and sometimes did his own stunts. Then he had a lung removed and kept working. Tell me thats not tough!!
Also I agree with Glenn1967. Doing a chase scene like this would look stupid with Toyotas and Nissans . John was so big he probably couldn' t get in one.
Wayne was born May 26, 1907. He was actually about 66 or 67 when this was made. As anybody can tell you, there are no fat cops out there. None. Never saw one. Kind of like Bigfoot, you hear about it, but nobody has any proof.
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@Glenn1967ful Finally someone who isn't some new age hippie. And i'm a teenager so there arent many other people my age like you. i miss the 60's and 70's although I wasnt there :(
The MAC-10 makes about it's first appearance here. It is really fast(about 1200 rpm cyclic rate)and is sometimes called a "bullet hose." The bad guy's car should have been ripped at a faster rate.
I watched this film on Five a few months ago and it is quite a decent attempt by Wayne to move into the tough cop territory. The two chase scenes are excellent.
That car McQ's driving ('68 Plymouth maybe?) looked pretty nose heavy when it landed off that ramp, guessing someone dropped in a big heavy 440 or 426 for speed...
I wouldn't call either of these flicks crap, but he was too old for the role of Dirty Harry. Remember that Harry had the nickname 'cause he was usually stuck with every cruddy job. Too hard to imagine Wayne in the role of least-respected cop.
John Wayne was offered but turned down the role of Dirty Harry. That is why he made this film, it is completely underrated. John Wayne made the best police movies there has ever been or ever will be. They beat Clint Eastwood's performance by at least a mile easy. This movie McQ and his next police movie and film of his career Brannigan proves it easily. I like the appearance of the MAC-10 submachine gun. McQ was really the movie to introduce it to the general public and created a demand for it.
Wrong. He was offered the role of Dirty Harry but turned it down because he thought the script was too violent for his fans.Also he never ripped anybody off. If anything they all ripped him off.
You've got to be kidding - Brannigan better than the Shootist or any of the John Ford films? John Wayne never made a great contemporary-set film, certainly not when trying to imitate Steve McQueen when he's way too old - he looks ridiculous in that muscle car, and the bit where he goes into the disco is all kinds of wrong
"I WANT THAT JUNK!!!!"
saanzacs 1 month ago
Doesnt the dumb bitch know how to roll up a window?
EnglishWhitePride 2 months ago
Windshield wiper's need to be replaced every year in seattle...
Gladeator123 2 months ago in playlist get some more of that good ol' stuff
Just read about this in Hal Needham's book.
captn 3 months ago
this would be good if not for annoying background music. and the aspect ratio is whack.
takeadayofff 3 months ago
I have a old Motor Trend mag from 74 that talks about this chase scene and movie. MT was on the set when they filmed this chase. And yes Gary Mclarty was the stunt driver in the Chevy and was in it when it rolled. Great chase.
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Stuntman Hal Needam devised the stunt. During the only two advances tests, the cannon was filled with minimum gun powder, and did not perform well. Hal then LOADED UP WITH GUNPOWDER. When triggered, the car flew up over 20 feet and then crashed, sending Hal to the hospital. The sunt seen on film was just the third CANNONROLL ever by STUNTS UNLIMITED. How did they decide how much gun powder to use? They split the difference. It was perfect, but lucky as well.
autofuturist 6 months ago
This was the first "CANNONROLL", but it wasn't an air cannon. It was a real cannon made from tubing and welded tol the roll cage. It shot a railroiad tie through the floor. The trigger was connected to the brake pedal.
autofuturist 6 months ago
@autofuturist I probably should explain the "BRAKE PEDAL TRIGGER" comment. In doing early CANNONROLLS, the car would be first put into an "E-BRAKE SLIDE". The trigger on the parking brake would be disabled, allowing the driver to lock-up the rear tires repeatedly at will. On asphalt, the E-BRAKE is activated, the tire skids, and rubber turns to a grease-like substance. Not the same on sand, however. The car is slid sideways, then the brake pedal is hit.
autofuturist 6 months ago
Funny if you notice- whenever they hit the surf, the Plymouth hydroplanes but the Chevy and the Cad just plow right through!
Cougar111469 6 months ago
HEY.....@3:05 the blue (1971-or-'72) Cadillac is facing the ocean; @3:06 it's facing INLAND! What the hell gives???
Hollywood...heh,heh,heh...
B304A124 6 months ago
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B304A124 6 months ago
I just love how the cars sound like stick shifts when they are automatics
The5150Clown 6 months ago
John Wayne alsmot got the role as Harry Callahan. But he had a few issues with the script and the fact that the role was originally was given to Frank Sinatra, but he couldn't hold a big gun due to a previous injury. Later John Wayne regreted his decision.
codename617 7 months ago
At the end when the blue caddy slides to a stop the front is facing toward the ocean. Next shot it's facing inland XD. Love those old cars
stanbernadino 7 months ago
This reminds me of the TRUE full-size American cars of a couple generations ago, when the largest models were 18 to 19 feet--and even more--long. And weighed about 2-and-a-half to THREE tons. Them were the days!
B304A124 7 months ago
Looking at old chase scenes like this one--and then thinking about today's automobiles--really drives home the point of just how BIG our American cars were back then. Boy, I miss them days. SUVs are OK, but they just don't cut it for me.
B304A124 7 months ago
@B304A124
Too right, like I wish the energy crisis had never happened.
Glenn1967ful 7 months ago
moments later all three cars dislolved to brown iron oxide as all american cars do when simply perspiring next to them....nice engines though...
Dozzablue1 8 months ago
John Wayne with an Ingram coulda won the Alamo.
Ceaaa22 8 months ago
@Ceaaa22 ha ha ha primgiam
bobszvetics1 7 months ago
they actually used 5 pounds of black powder to fire a section of telephone pole...same thing they used in Raiders of the Lost Ark
penfifteen666 9 months ago
@steuarts
John Wayne's car is a '69 Plymouth- either a Satellite or a Belvedere. The two-door version of that car was the basis for the legendary Road Runner and GTX musclecars. The Dukes Of Hazzards' Dodge Charger is the cousin to this car.
Cougar111469 1 year ago
@Cougar111469 He drove two Plymouth Belvederes. A 1968 used by the Seattle Police Department which he stole from a tow yard and this one was a green 1969 model
frankd1965 7 months ago
what type of car at 0:08 ?
steuarts 1 year ago
In the 1974 action film McQ, starring John Wayne, legendary stunt coordinator Ronnie Rondell and Hal Needham. This shot was planned for the flat and desolate beach, they couldn't hide a ramp with bushes or shrubs; it would look too odd. So Needham invented a way to flip cars: With a device later named the McQ Cannon.
The cannon was loaded with a 3-foot-long telephone pole and a black-powder charge.
Check the video at about 2:49 you can see flames from the cannon.
sansavarous 1 year ago
what kind of car was john wayne driving in this movie?
MrEmotionalman 1 year ago
@MrEmotionalman McQ's car was an early '70s Firebird Trans Am; since the movie was from '74 and the car is not a '74, I'll guess it's a '73.
kimisdaman 1 year ago
@kimisdaman During that film, McQ's Firebird got crushed by two trucks. Pretty much if you want an ideal car chase. #1 Don't need CGI, just run it in a real environment and #2 Get a car that can be tough and mean, no weakling green cars.
DC322 6 months ago
Seattle is a great city for car chases.
bjroberts65 1 year ago
I'm English, Projectno, but I'm old enough to remember when American cars were far better than junk like Morris Marinas and Vauxhall Vivas we had in England and cost about the same while offering one hell of a lot more. 1.3 litres or 6 litres, tell me what you would sooner have at the time.
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TruthTeller878 1 year ago
Long live The Duke in a COOL 1970's Old School car chase before Brannigan!
CorporalPitts 1 year ago
Thanks YaStunt for the update. Name some of your favorite stunts......(?)
Shoobee63 1 year ago
never get tired of him peppering that mobsters car
orangebike900 1 year ago
You can't beat John Wayne with a big fuck off machine gun!
burtonreid 1 year ago
Goof. At the end of the chase, the Cadillac stops and parks facing the ocean. But when John Wayne and Diana Mauldur get off their Plymouth, the Cadillac is already facing the opposite direction. Is that sloppy direction or just great stunt driving?
markedjuan 1 year ago
Talk about edge of your seat action!
JohnnyTheWolfLupino 1 year ago
In todays modern day this role would be played by Bruce Willis.
Lfdjake91 1 year ago
This is a great movie & so was the Duke other modern cop flick Brannigan. It is really interesting to see Wayne do something besides his usual steady diet of westerns & war movies. Wayne is great in his roles as a modern day, aging but still tough as nails cop. .
Lfdjake91 1 year ago
saw this at the movies downtown seattle
dannyrose55 1 year ago
I like how the old school thinking was drugs where bad but it was cool to be an alcoholic
orangebike76 1 year ago
The rollover stunt was performed by Burt Reynolds' good friend Hal Needham (who later directed Smokey and the Bandit).
Needham broke his back doing the stunt.
Shoobee63 1 year ago
@Shoobee63 Actually that big rollover at the end was performed by Gary Mclarty. (He's the stunt guy in "The Blues Brothers" who asks "Do you have a Miss Piggy?".) Hal Needham Did do the first testing of a cannon-roll by an American car and he did get injured. A LONG time ago I got in touch with a U.S. stunt coordinator who told me this information. I did a super zoom on my dvd of Mcq - focussing on the stuntdriver - and yes - it looks like Gary Mclarty!
yastunt 1 year ago
the duke rules!! i was a toddler in the 70s but grew up watching dads tv. this movie is a bit hokie at times but thats what makes it so entertaining. awesomely bad. and eddie albert was awesome giving the duke a hard time ever step of the way. like the box cover sayes " the cop noone can stop, not even the cops" i love when the duke calls coke "junk". need i say more?
orangebike76 1 year ago
i was not expecting him to pull out a mac-10, a winchester maybe.
sadbutsandman91 1 year ago
The Duke with a MAC 10!
HELL YEAH!
MaidenUtah1 1 year ago
is there a clip where he steals a 1968 Seattle Police Plymouth Belvedere and wrecks it?
frankd1965 1 year ago
I wonder how the stunt guys can roll like that in the Chevrolet without getting injured....wow.
promixcuous 2 years ago
@promixcuous Just the stunt at 1:19 where Wayne's Mopar (Plymouth?) does a nose plant after jumping a sand berm. Holy mackerel, that was enough to firmly plant one's tonsils on the steering wheel with a shower of teeth falling to the floor mat. We don't need no stinkin' shoulder belts... it's the 70s! God help me, I loved that movie growing up; Wayne standing tall. Damn, does anyone even come close today? Eastwood maybe. Gran Torino was a great flick, but not comparing here.
snarkfarkle 1 year ago
The music is the best part. Man, whats wrong with some people? That was the seventies.
Flynn1926 2 years ago 4
The late Elmer Bernstein did this
frankd1965 1 year ago
@Flynn1926 The 1970s was the greatest movie decade in history.
Salguine 1 year ago
AmanamanIII, I hope I got the screen name right. Thanks for posting this. Way cool.
FylthyBeest 2 years ago
Same jazzy music as in Brannigan
CentralHowie 2 years ago
You couldn't even make this movie anymore. Crashing cars on the beach... the environmentalist would go nuts.
clearoyd 2 years ago 2
That salt water isn't gonna do much good for those panels. :P
Darwinion 2 years ago
Today's movies will look corny, stupid, silly, or dated in time. We're just too close to them to see it yet. Just think how corny 30's and 40s movies seemed to viewers in '74. At least McQ has enduring style, thanks to Wayne. Corny, yes, but 80s flicks are looking corny to me now. Recalling Wayne's fondness for the old Seattle, and remembering what it was like here as a kid, McQ is a pure nostalgia trip for me. Soon we'll reflect on today's movies and note how silly or exaggerated we looked. :)
snarkfarkle 2 years ago 2
Can't comment on the movie itself, as I haven't seen it, but this chase is not corny; very gritty, but the music is a little lame
pokemonhunterJ 2 years ago
also, good use of a sub machine gun with silencer!!
pokemonhunterJ 2 years ago
@snarkfarkle
Yeah a car chase involving a Hyundai Accent and two Toyotas, which we'll get before long,will never match up to some Detroit V8s in a car chase. When you want to do a car chase, it has to be American cars or, at a pinch, Italian or British supercars.
Glenn1967ful 2 years ago
@Glenn1967ful Or a Ford Capri over Tower Bridge....
MrPomdownunder 1 year ago
@Glenn1967ful
How about three VW Super Beatles? Then it would be a Disney movie!
Murphy98112 1 year ago
too bad he didn't do these roles earlier on-i think he would have been great.
tomloft2000 2 years ago
Wayne was WAY too old to play a cop, this movie was just a poor rip-off of Bullitt.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
I've been a cop for almost ten years now. Closing in on 42 and to be honest I'm not as skinny as I used to be. Still work out, don't smoke and rarely drink, but age happens. Once a year I have to take and pass a physical fitness test, but I'm slowing down and the gunbelt I wear today isn't the same one I strapped on as a rookie officer. It happens. I'm also balder then I used to be. Gives me character I guess.
anythingbroadway 2 years ago
Great lineup of cars for this movie. 1968 Plymouth Bevedere ( with sound dubbed in. Made the 318ci sound like a 440 magnum) 1970 Pontiac Trans Am/455 HO. Damn, they crushed it between 2 trucks. 1971 Chevrolet Biscayne. (I had a '71Biscayne with 400ci, went like hell!!) Then a pair of 1972 Cadillacs. Eddie Albert drove the other one that didn't get shot up on the beach.
a93gmc 2 years ago
Well when this was made you saw the odd Volkswagen and that was it. The Japanese invasion was still a few years off. However, I'm sure the car that was shot up was a Chevrolet and not a Cadillac.
Glenn1967ful 2 years ago
Like wmnaught said, John Wayne was 66/67 years old when he acted in this movie. I admit the movie was a bit corny in places. I think Wayne did a great job as a tough cop.If anybody thinks he wasn't tough just think of how many movies he did and sometimes did his own stunts. Then he had a lung removed and kept working. Tell me thats not tough!!
Also I agree with Glenn1967. Doing a chase scene like this would look stupid with Toyotas and Nissans . John was so big he probably couldn' t get in one.
a93gmc 2 years ago 17
well to be honest, most films back then wer a bit corny in places but they wer still good
ChromeGhost0219 2 years ago
Wayne was born May 26, 1907. He was actually about 66 or 67 when this was made. As anybody can tell you, there are no fat cops out there. None. Never saw one. Kind of like Bigfoot, you hear about it, but nobody has any proof.
wmaught7 2 years ago
Come to chicago, ill show you Dozens of fat ass cops
MelMelsNRich 2 years ago 2
Even at the Naval base there is fat cops...
easye1989 2 years ago
hes about 50 inthis film where did he get a silenced mac 10 like the one in pulp fiction
carbonfootprintmyass 2 years ago
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The draft dodging racist coward was far too old and fat to play a cop.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
Do the world a favor PeterFirthFan and shut the fuck up...
easye1989 2 years ago
wayne in a plymouth belvedere with a MAC 10.. how much hardcore could this be,
great movie great chase
ZorbinEUR 2 years ago
This could only be made with traditional full size American cars( always the best). Doing it with a pair of Toyotas and a Hyundai would look stupid.
Glenn1967ful 2 years ago 24
Not that Hyundai existed in 1974. :/
Gossage54 2 years ago
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Murphy98112 1 year ago
@Glenn1967ful
Pity they didn't have Smart cars back in those days. Would have liked to have seen Wayne driving one of those ;-)
tonyrome67 1 year ago
@Glenn1967ful Finally someone who isn't some new age hippie. And i'm a teenager so there arent many other people my age like you. i miss the 60's and 70's although I wasnt there :(
projectno253 1 year ago
The MAC-10 makes about it's first appearance here. It is really fast(about 1200 rpm cyclic rate)and is sometimes called a "bullet hose." The bad guy's car should have been ripped at a faster rate.
wmaught7 2 years ago
2:49 owned
Z0hann 2 years ago
Chase scenes like this only look convincing with full size American cars. It would look stupid with two Japanese subcompacts or three light trucks.
Glenn1967ful 2 years ago
I watched this film on Five a few months ago and it is quite a decent attempt by Wayne to move into the tough cop territory. The two chase scenes are excellent.
Glenn1967ful 2 years ago
Play within a play
D.C.CAB (1983)
austerjx 2 years ago
his face at 2:44 fnck yeah!
flashgordon2008 2 years ago
2:44 fnck yeah!
flashgordon2008 2 years ago
That car McQ's driving ('68 Plymouth maybe?) looked pretty nose heavy when it landed off that ramp, guessing someone dropped in a big heavy 440 or 426 for speed...
CycolacFan 3 years ago
it was a 1969 model. he also drove a stolen 1968 Plymouth Belvadere that was from The Seattle Police Department.
frankd1965 3 years ago
I wouldn't call either of these flicks crap, but he was too old for the role of Dirty Harry. Remember that Harry had the nickname 'cause he was usually stuck with every cruddy job. Too hard to imagine Wayne in the role of least-respected cop.
careylowell 3 years ago
John Wayne was offered but turned down the role of Dirty Harry. That is why he made this film, it is completely underrated. John Wayne made the best police movies there has ever been or ever will be. They beat Clint Eastwood's performance by at least a mile easy. This movie McQ and his next police movie and film of his career Brannigan proves it easily. I like the appearance of the MAC-10 submachine gun. McQ was really the movie to introduce it to the general public and created a demand for it.
ALPHA000102 3 years ago
NOPE. He was NEVER offered Dirty Harry, because he was far too OLD. Only Sinatra and Newman were offered Dirty Harry before Eastwood took it.
Both McQ and Brannigan were CRAP, because Wayne was far too OLD and OBESE. This one was just a poor rip-off of Bullitt anyway.
ObamaRules4Ever 3 years ago
Wrong. He was offered the role of Dirty Harry but turned it down because he thought the script was too violent for his fans.Also he never ripped anybody off. If anything they all ripped him off.
eaivalue 2 years ago
You've got to be kidding - Brannigan better than the Shootist or any of the John Ford films? John Wayne never made a great contemporary-set film, certainly not when trying to imitate Steve McQueen when he's way too old - he looks ridiculous in that muscle car, and the bit where he goes into the disco is all kinds of wrong
fireandforgetdotnet 3 years ago