Eastwood References in Fistful of Magnum

Here is a systematic treatment of the obvious Eastwood References in Fistful of Magnum, prepared by Brian Armstrong. 
Plot Eastwood Reference
Dr. Baxter has developed a device that can solve the world’s energy crisis. The Baxter family was one of the feuding families from a Fist Full of Dollars.
The chief villain's name was Indio Von Steuben. Indio from For a Few Dollars More. A German last name to spoof Where Eagles Dare.
Dr. Baxter buries the device in a grave and gives each of his sons a letter of the name on the grave. The money in The Good, the Bad, the Ugly was buried in a grave.
The Baxter boys are systematically killed for the letter on the grave. The systematic killings mimicked the revenge killings in Sudden Impact and the family feud in Fist Full of Dollars.
One of the Baxter Boy killers was dressed as a nun. Clint co-starred with Shirley McLaine who played a nun in Two Mules for Sister Sara.
Dirty Jimmy Callanhan called in from San Francisco to solve the crimes. San Francisco is the home of Dirty Harry.
Dirty Jimmy beats up purse snatching punk while eating his Little Tavern Hamburger. Harry stops a robbery in Dirty Harry and Sudden Impact between bites of food.
To Jimmy's disgust, the chief of police, a woman, assigns him a woman partner, Officer Tuco. Dirty Harry is assigned a woman partner in The Enforcer to his dismay. Tuco was Clint’s sidekick in the GBU.
In the coroner scene, the woman partner was disgusted by the coroner eating on the job. She runs out of the room vomiting. In The Enforcer, the coroner grossed out Harry’s female partner during an autopsy.
Jimmy is double-crossed by his partner. She tries to kill, him but he kills her instead. He closes the scene by saying, "The Chief was right. You don't have enough experience." Harry was double-crossed by fellow police officers in Magnum Force. After he lures one of the rogue cops to drive his motorcycle off a pier to his death, he remarks, “The Chief was right. You don't have enough experience" (i.e., a play off something the chief had said about the young cops on the force earlier in the film).
Attack on the rooftop with Jimmy finishing off the two punks and saying “Boys.” In Sudden Impact, the guy who tries to kill Clint ends up driving off a pier to his death. As the car sinks, Harry says “Boys.”
Jimmy and Jill Baxter colliding while he is jogging. Harry and Sandra Locke meet while jogging in Sudden Impact.
Jill Baxter has the last letter of the name on the grave and is lured to an abandoned Amusement Park, Glen Echo Amusement Park. The finale of Sudden Impact takes place in a closed amusement park.
Dirty Jimmy confronts a female assassin who tries to kill him. He grabs her arm and she says, “You wouldn’t hit a lady, would you?" He punches her and knocks her out. In tribute to Harry’s encounters with various woman in his films. In Sudden Impact, Clint kicks woman in butt and in The Gauntlet, when he punches a woman after she says, “You wouldn't hit a lady, would you?”
Indio tells Jill Baxter that "there are two kinds of people in the world…those with loaded guns and those that dig. Start digging." Paraphrased line from the GBU.
Dirty Jimmy telling Indio and thugs: "Why don’t you boys put those guns down." Line from Sudden Impact.
Indio tells thugs to hang’em high. Reference to the film, Hang em High.
Dirty Jimmy with noose around neck. Tuco in the GBU. Clint in Hang em high.
Man with no name appears and shoots the rope releasing Jimmy. Blondie shoots the noose of Tuco in GBU.
Mysterious figure from High Plains Drifter comes to avenge a crime.  
Shoot-out at the cemetery Spoof of the shoot-out in GBU with close-ups of guns and faces while Hugo Montenegro music is played in the background.
“Man with no name” saying, “You owe me one Meathead,” to Dirty Jimmy. Harry said this line to his dog, Meathead, when he alerted him to the presence of an assassin in Sudden Impact.
Dirty Jimmy saying, "Ah Ah I know what you’re thinking" line in the Finale. Dirty Harry finale where Harry recreates the line before killing the psycho, Scorpio.
Dirty Jimmy saying, "Go ahead, Make my day," in the Finale. Line from Sudden Impact.
Music From various “Dirty Harry” films and Spaghetti Westerns.
Credits All names were Italianized with “ino” and other endings, to give the production a Spaghetti Western flavor.


Last Updated on 9/25/97
By Armstrong, Brian 1