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Friday, August 5, 2022
THE DEAD FOOL
THE DEAD POOL (1988)
dir: Buddy Van Horn
THE DEAD FOOL
Cracked #242, January 1989
w: Tony Frank (Lou Silverstone)
a: Peter McDonnell
Couldn't find anything with this (for free), all sources pointed to the later superhero film Deadpool, so I'll wing it.
This was the last in the Dirty Harry series. Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) has testified against Lou Janero and is famous for it in the press, and it is reported on by Samantha Walker (Patricia Clarkson). He dislikes the press coverage that keeps reporting on how he's now a marked man.
It is discovered that a recent murder victim, Peter Swan (Liam Neeson, not used here) was holding a betting pool that had Callahan's name on it. Callahan's latest partner in Al Quan (Evan Kim). Callahan destroys a camera that's sticking its nose in police business, then has dinner with Samantha Walker to apologize and agrees to an interview to avoid a lawsuit.
The betting pool, or dead pool, list of victims are being killed off and it is up to Harry Callahan and his partners to track them down.The murders duplicate the films made by Peter Swan.
The killer turns out to be a man named Rook (David Hunt), who manages to get Harry's trademark .44, which runs out of bullets, so Harry impales him with a harpoon.
”Go ahead, make my day” is a line from the previous Dirty Harry movie. The critics at the end are Joel Siegel, Siskel and Ebert, Rex Reed, and Gene Shalit.
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