San Francisco may be behind New York and Los Angeles's characters in terms of a large volume of films made at the city's site, but it complements it with some extremely memorable appearances on the screen. There was a giant octopus attack in "Come from under the Sea", with real footage of the Golden Gate Bridge, separated by Ray Harihausen's ray. Steve McQueen stood behind the wheel of the famous car chase in Bulit and Ryan O'Neal and Barbra Streisand gathered the best scene ever in "What's Doc?" Union's Square was the Ein Hackman's wiring setting in "The Conversation", and the island of Alcatraz was taken into the central scene in "Rock". Then, it was "Dirty Harry", the best film in Frisco since the 1970s, and weird, we have Frank Sinatra to thank for that choice at the location.

The "blue eyes may be best remembered as Cronar and the president of the rat board, but the legendary singer was one of several high -profile actors to debate" dirty "Harry Callahan before Clint Eastwood made his role in signature. Indeed, Sinatra was even attached to the project before a hand injury forced him to move away from the film. In a retrospective, he may seem like a strange choice to play Maverick's police officer who shoots first and later asks questions, but at the time, he was a very capable actor who encouraged a tough man.

While Sinatra starred in very lightweight music comedies that were not particularly sought after, he also gave strong performances in a number of more serious films. He won an Oscar for his accompanying turnaround "From here to eternity", Gathered the main nomination for an actor for "The Man with the Golden Hand", played a troubled veteran (opposite his Pal Dean Martin) in the underestimated "Some Running" and scored a hit at the time of FON Ryan. Then, in the late 1960s, Sinatra starred in the trio of hard-boiled crime films: "Tony Rome", "Detective" and "Lady in Cement", a sequel to the first. The next was the clutter thriller of the policeman, who was temporarily entitled "Kalahan", and Sinatra had the power to influence where the film was shot.

During Phone interview With the Bay Radio Surface in 1970, he said the script for Callahan was "Darn Good Script" full of melodrama and uncertainty. He also hoped that producers could get someone like Johnon Frankenheimer to direct, with whom Sinatra had previously worked with the "Manchurian candidate". With the recording set for October that year, he also talked about the choice of location:

"Being was shot in Newoux and I chose San Francisco, we changed it because I thought San Francisco never ... I think it's never been photographed as well as in fact."

Unfortunately, by December 1970, Sinatra was out, allegedly going to the role of choosing Harry's weapons. He sustained a hand injury while filming "Mandzurian candidate" (a movie featuring the worst movie mother of all time) And it was only recently undergoing surgery to solve the tendon problem. According to his friend Robert Davy, Sinatra looked at the gun and said, "I'm afraid it's a little too big for my hands." Many years later, Clint Eastwood said He thought the pronunciation was "pretty cush", but the loss of Sinatra was his profit, and he again teamed up with Don Siegel (after the "bluff of Koagan", "Two Sister Sister", and "The Beguiled") for one of the biggest films in his career. So, although the Teevar and the director have changed, the choice of Sinatra location has remained. That probably made the movie.

With cinematographer Bruce Surthes on the ship, "Dirty Harry" has become a shimmering exhibition for the city beside the Bay. Basque under the blue sky in bright sun, the film begins with a spectacular panorama from the top of 555 California Street. Here is the Serial killer Scorpio (Andy Robinson) makes his first murder and Harry finds the ransom note. Accompanied by Lalo Shiffrin's beastly result, we get a lot of street taste with Janging trams, alert traffic, strip joints, and even a cinema depicting the Eastwood directorial debut, "Play Maglie". Other features of the gig tour include a city assembly in San Francisco; Square in Washington (where Scorpio is prevented while on another victim); A 100 -meter cross at the Davidson Mountain Summit (location of purchase waste); And the old stadium in San Francisco 49ers, where Harry is tormenting Scorpio. Newouort had no doubt that it was good as a background, but San Francisco proved to be an integral part of the "dirty Harry" atmosphere. Thank you for the advice, Mr -Sinatra!