Dirty Harry [Dead Right] (Original Screenplay for the 1971 film, Final Draft) by Siegel, Don (director); John Milius, Terrence Malick, Harry Julian Fink (screenwriters); Clint Eastwood (starring) - 1970

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1970. Final Draft script for the 1970 film, here under the working title "Dead Right". A significant draft, as Terrence Malick-then only a screenwriter-has added revisions to the prior draft by John Milius and Harry Julian Fink. All three are credited on the title page, but only Harry Julian Fink and later contributors R.M. Fink and Dean Riesner would be credited in the film. An internal Warner Brothers memo from producer Paul M. Heller is laid in (previously stapled to the top edge of the front wrapper, and reads: "It is of great importance that this script be treated as Highly Confidential and not be distributed to anyone other than yourselves without my express permission". A substantially different story than the one ultimately filmed, with Harry Callahan's famous speech ("I know what you're thinking, punk...) replaced with a very lengthy discourse by Harry to younger police officers regarding the efficacy of the .44 Magnum, and the relative merits of other guns used in the past for police work. The name "Scorpio" had not yet been devised, and the psychopath Harry is seeking is described only as "Killer" in the script. One of the most important films of the New Hollywood cinema movement in the early 1970s, introducing Harry Callahan, a San Francisco cop with little regard for rules, but a great regard for ultra-violent justice. Filmed in an altogether new style that would completely change the way crime dramas were made, and with a nihilistic atmosphere that distinguishes it as much today as it did in 1970. Goldenrod titled wrappers, noted as FINAL on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 80, dated November 3, 1970. Distribution page present, with perforated receipt intact. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Malick, Milius, and Fink. 111 leaves, mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine, internally bound with two gold brads.