f you’re a fan of Clint these scenes were filmed, Dirty Harry ends up driving Callahan climbs onto the flight The 1973 movie Magnum Force was the Eastwood and his character which sparked this hunt for down a pier pursued by a pair deck and attempts to kick- second in Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty Harry” police action films. In the final IInspector Harry Callahan, the exact location. of vigilante motorcycle-riding start one of the police fight scene, Clint Eastwood’s character aka “Dirty Harry,” then you For the movie’s continuity, San Francisco Police officers. motorcycles. Once it catches, Inspector Harry Callahan fights for his know that the climactic the villain Lt. Briggs, played by The sign on the pier’s building he tries to drive to one of the life, doing battle with a pair of vigilante San Francisco Police Officers on board concluding scenes of the 1973 actor Hal Holbrook, takes Dirty reads: “Marine Salvage Ship ramps offering an escape, but three mothballed WWII escort carriers. movie Magnum Force were set Harry on a car ride through Service Company, Pier 54.” This as he contemplates his path to Eastwood was an accomplished on board three World War II San Francisco en route sign is fictitious and was hung safety the last remaining motorcycle rider and he handled many escort carriers berthed on San to his demise, but on the building as movie set rogue cop, Officer Davis, of the riding segments. When it came to jumping the motorcycle from carrier Francisco Bay. As of late things don’t work dressing as the Marine Salvage played by actor David Soul — to carrier, a stuntman got the call. The there has been some out as planned. Ship Service Co. did not who would later become hills of Richmond can be seen in the controversy as After a car and actually exist. famous for his role as Detect- background. The ship seen to the left to where motorcycle After beating one of the ive Kenneth Hutchinson and below is a 492-foot long Auxiliary Repair Dock. chase, rogue riders to a pulp, in the TV show

The Escort Carriers of the film Magnum Force BY NICHOLAS A. VERONICO

Three escort carriers were docked at Richmond’s Red Rock Marina. Clint Eastwood is seen maneuvering a police motorcycle on the center of the three ships. His character, Dirty Harry Callahan, would then jump the bike from the center ship to the one seen in the background.

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