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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990
Good. Neither one would have been right for that.
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Either would have been fine as Dirty Harry. It would just be a very different version, but still just fine.
Lee Marvin would have made a great Harry Callahan. I think James Coburn would have been great too. Steve McQueen of course, if he didn't get cancer.
Thing is, each of these Hollywood tough guys would have played it differently from what they bring to the silver screen, but every one would make it work.
John Wayne is the one I have a hard time really seeing as Harry Callahan, but he was a very good actor in his own right and played his owl style of the strong/silent type. You watch him in "The Searchers" and what is he in that but Harry Callahan. The Vengeance of Hell on wheels with steely eyes and single minded focus. He would need a director to keep him in that dead serious mode from The Searchers, and not take it ironic or comedic at all, but yes... the Duke could have pulled it off. No problemo.
You just wouldn't have lines like "Make my day" or "Do I feel lucky? Well, do you...Punk!"
But the Duke would have had his own memorable lines. Bank on it.