The Dirty Harry Years Sergio Leone once said Clint Eastwood had two expressions, "one with the hat, one without it." He apparently meant it as a compliment but it helps to distinguish (if we can call it that) his move from "the man with no name" to Dirty Harry . Essentially, they are one in the same character, except that his lead character now has a name to go with the face and is planted firmly on the side of justice. Of course, you can make the argument that Clint represented "Good" in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , but there was far more ambiguity to Leone's classic western than there was to the Dirty Harry series, which gave us the quintessential " badass cop ." Clint took over the Dirty Harry project when Warner Brothers failed to get the actor the studio initially wanted for the role. Eastwood insisted on a leaner meaner Harry Callahan, clearing out all the excess baggage studio bosses imagined in the film. To make the ...