19 July, 2007

Top Five Movie Cops

I have been giving this a lot of though lately of who my favorite TV/Movie cop's are. There are/were a lot of great candidates, but here is who I came up with:
  1. Harry Callahan, (Clint Eastwood) aka Dirty Harry, probably the best known movie cop out there, not only for his massive .44 Smith & Wesson revolver, but for his infamous one liners throughout his movies.
  2. Jack Cates (Nick Nolte)/Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy), 48 Hours. One convict, one alcoholic detective go on a manhunt through the street of San Francisco looking for bad guys. A little far fetched but the dialogue between the two of them is classic...and very unpolitically correct to say the least.
  3. Lt. Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen), Bullitt. He makes my list just because of the classic chase scene, Mustang versus Charger. The movie itself was kind of boring, but the stunt driving is among the best ever
  4. John McClane (Bruce Willis), Die Hard. Another against the grain cop who saves the world, now four times over. Again, the one liners are classics
  5. Marshal Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones), The Fugitive/US Marshals. A tough in your face kind of guy, who always gets his man.

I am sure I will come up with more later, but these are the one's that came to mind right away

--gfo

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