Harry's just learned a whole new game.

Members of Guns-n-Roses have brief cameos first as guests during the funeral scene, and again as actors on Swan's set (they shoot the harpoon off of the boat).

Watch for Jim Carrey as rock star Johnny Squares.  Eastwood would later cast him as a lounge comic in Pink Cadillac.

The film was co-written by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw, authors of the Life Extension books.  It was their story idea and urging which prompted Eastwood's return to the character.

The toy car sequence sparked fond memories of the chase from Bullitt for many critics, and was also one of Eastwood's favorite sequences of the entire film.

Eastwood's older Callahan in this film is actually closer to the age Dirty Harry was originally intended to be, a fact that Eastwood often joked about on the set.  One of the aspects he liked about playing Harry again was the chance to revisit the character to see how he was getting along "at this stage of his life".

This is the only other film in the series that makes reference to Scorpio from Dirty Harry.

The dead pool lists included numerous crew members who had worked with Eastwood, (such as cinematographer Jack Green; assistant film editor Michael Cipriano; script supervisor Lloyd Nelson; and costume supervisor Glenn Wright).

Director Buddy Van Horn previously appeared in front of the Dirty Harry camera as the suicide jumper in Dirty Harry.

When Al shows Harry the dead pool list in the restaurant, he reads off the names "Tony Engelhart...Michael Cipriano...Harry Callahan."  The name on the list is Tony Engedal.

The highlights shown of Swan's films are actually Time After Time, Cujo, and It's Alive III:  Island of the Alive.

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Sam:  According to sources, the object of the dead pool was for each player to pick eight Bay area celebrities, who might die, presumably of natural causes, by a predetermined date.  The winner of the game was to be the person whose list contained the most dead celebrities.

Harry:  You're out of bullets.  And you know what that means...you're shit outta luck.

Captain:  You know what this is, Callahan?   It's a bill for a TV camera and lens.  When I told you to stop wrecking our cars, I didn't mean go out and find something else to destroy!

Sam:  This is your 'fifteen minutes', Callahan.
Harry:  What?
Sam:  You know- what Andy Warhol said?  Everybody's famous for fifteen minutes? Well, this is it.
Harry:  Swell.

Harry Callahan:  Clint Eastwood
Samantha Walker:  Patricia Clarkson
Peter Swan:  Liam Neeson
Al Quan:  Evan C. Kim
Harlan Rook:  Peter Hunt
Cpt. Donnelly:  Michael Currie
Lt. Ackerman:  Michael Goodwin
Patrick Snow:  Darwin Gillett
Lou Janero:  Anthony Charnota
D.A. McSherry:  Christopher Beale
Lt.  Ruskowski:  John Allen Vick
Jeff Howser:  Nicholas Love
Vicky Owens:  Maureen McVerry
Det. Hindmark:  Glenn Wright
Chester Docksteder:  Shawn Elliott
Suzanne Dayton:  Victoria Bastel
Butcher Hicks:  Diego Chairs
Molly Fisher:  Ronnie Claire Edwards
Johnny Squares:  James Carrey