The Dead Pool - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of The Dead Pool or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to The Dead Pool

[bernice]

The headline on the cover of the magazine "San Francisco: The Magazine" read: "Harry Callahan - San Francisco's Wyatt Earp".

[linda]

The restaurant where Harry and Samantha have their first "date" is at Front Room Pizza. Since then, it has changed hands and although still serves pizza, the emphasis is now on Brazilian cuisine.

[sara]

The Clint Eastwood movie Bird (1988) was shot before this movie, but launched stateside after it. "Bird" was filmed during the last quarter of 1987, while this movie was shot from February to April of 1988. "Bird" was not released in the U.S. until late September 1988 after this movie had debuted for the American summer season in July 1988, summer being a very lucrative period for theaters.

[scarlett]

Permission was given to film in San Francisco, despite protests from citizens who thought Harry Callahan was not a good representative for the city.

[nina]

George Orrison: Clint Eastwood's long-time stand-in as an Embarcadero bodyguard.

[beth]

When the later tv series CSI:Miami did an episode based upon a similiar celebrity Dead Pool list, that story focused more on the money betting side of the underlying concept, rather than the actual murders.

[kim]

In Australia, this was the first Dirty Harry movie not be 18 certificated, known in this territory as the R-Certificate. The movie got an M rating, recommended for people 15 years and over. Since that time, however, Dirty Harry (1971) has now been rated on DVD with the new lower rating of MA15+ (Mature Adults, restricted to people 15 years and over), while the other three movies still remain R-rated on DVD.

[addison]

In this movie there is a Lieutenant Ackerman (Michael Goodwin). In Clint Eastwood's movie, The Rookie (1990), Charlie Sheen played David Ackerman.

[phyllis]

The title refers to a list of names, all celebrities, that are intended victims of a serial killer operating in San Francisco. "The Dead Pool" was actually four lists grouped together on a document called the "Master List", and originally it was the paperwork for a fictitious game by a horror movie production unit, but gets copycatted by a real-life serial killer.

[clayton]

When Samantha Walker (Patricia Clarkson) is having dinner with Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), she tells about how she has researched his "colorful" police career, and then she pulls out a notebook filled with collected headlines. One of those headlines read "Scorpio Killer Captured". Scorpio was the main villain in Dirty Harry (1971).

[victoria]

One of three Clint Eastwood movies released in 1988. The others were Bird (1988) and Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988).

[cameron]

Jim Carrey is lip-synching in his scene where he, as rock-star Johnny Squares, is seen singing the Guns N' Roses song "Welcome to the Jungle".

[stephanie]

Lloyd Nelson: The script supervisor as Sergeant Waldman.

[chris]

First of two Clint Eastwood movies which featured a then unknown Jim Carrey. The second was a cameo in Pink Cadillac (1989), where Carrey is briefly seen performing his "Post-Nuclear Elvis Lounge Act".

[chris]

Slash: When the "nightmare scene" is being filmed on the docks, the harpoon that goes through the window was fired by Slash, the guitarist from Guns N' Roses.

[miriam]

Footage from Peter Swan's fictional slasher movies were compiled from Time After Time (1979), Cujo (1983), and It's Alive (1974).

[kenneth]

The titles and taglines for some of the horror movies directed by Peter Swan (Liam Neeson) mentioned in the film and displayed on movie posters included: HOTEL SATAN ("You check in. You die."); NIGHT OF THE SLASHER ("Evil Hands are Happy Hands"); WITHOUT THE DEVIL ("How does this grab you?"); HELL WITHOUT THE DEVIL; NIGHT OF THE HANGMAN (script only shown) and SHADOWS OF THE DEAD ("Everyone should be afraid of the dark").

[claude]

Buddy Van Horn, a friend and colleague of Clint Eastwood, was chosen to direct, because Eastwood knew Van Horn would shoot the movie fast, something Eastwood always prefers. The two carried on the working relationship with Pink Cadillac (1989).

[alyssa]

Harry Demopoulos: Clint Eastwood's real-life doctor, billed as Harry Demopoulos M.D., as a medic in the hospital room.