Chillopedia | With its rolling hills and recognisable landmarks, it’s no surprise that San Francisco has been used as something of a film set over the years. From the slapstick comedy of Mrs Doutbfire to big budget, high octane adventures like The Rock, many large scale productions have used this city by the bay to provide a setting.
The Sixties, with all of its commendable trumpeting of tolerance, restraint and free love was always going to be too good to last. Sooner or later there’s always a rebound and in Hollywood few movies represented that rebound better than 1971′s Dirty Harry. Peace, love and understanding proved to be no match for the most powerful handgun in the world and an actor who, at that time, was best known for playing a different kind of cowboy.
I loved Dirty Harry and i loved his gun. 'Did I fire 5 shots or 6?' I can watch that first movie over and over just for those lines.
EW: The must-have ingredients for any classic screwball romantic comedy include the following: a clueless guy, a wisecracking dame, rat-a-tat patter, a dizzy caper plot, a car chase (or better yet, a pie fight), and, naturally, a finale where he realizes that he can't live without her and vice versa.
