A custom image of Clint Eastwood as "Dirty Harry" Callahan
The Big Picture You know the scene. Heck, you've probably even played it over and over in your own head, with yourself in the Clint Eastwood role. Inspector "Dirty Harry" Callahan walks into a diner for a cup of coffee, inadvertently walking into a robbery attempt. Wrong place, wrong time... for the robbers. Harry kills all but one, who attempts to escape by taking a waitress hostage. Through gritted teeth, Harry lifts his .44 Magnum and utters, "Go ahead, make my day.
Release Date December 9, 1983 Director Clint Eastwood Cast Clint Eastwood , Sondra Locke Runtime 117 Main Genre Action Who Wrote "Go Ahead, Make My Day" from 'Sudden Impact'? One would think that the ownership of such an iconic line would be pretty straightforward, but there are no less than three people who claim to have written it.
That leaves independent filmmaker Charles B. Pierce, who wrote the story that became Sudden Impact, and while his claim to the iconic line may not be definitive, Pierce at least has a fantastic story behind it. As the story goes, the line was a riff on something his father used to say when Pierce was growing up: "Just let me come home one more day without you mowing the lawn, son, just go ahead -- make my day.
Dirty Harry's Most Iconic Line Appeared in Another Film First Close The claim about who wrote the legendary quote may be ambiguous, but there's certainly no question that Eastwood's Harry Callahan said it. Was he the first to say it on film, though? The answer, surprisingly, is no. You may remember the 1982 box office blockbuster Vice Squad.
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