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A wide view across San Francisco at dusk, the downtown towers and the bay beyond
San Francisco from Twin Peaks just before sunset, 2006: downtown on the left, the Bay Bridge behind. Christian Mehlführer, User:Chmehl · CC BY 2.5
Clint Eastwood in a white T-shirt beside a film camera, pointing as he gives an instruction
Clint Eastwood in Mexico in 1969, on Two Mules for Sister Sara, his first film with Don Siegel; a Universal publicity photograph. Universal Pictures (photographer unknown) · Public domain
Clint EastwoodHarry Callahan

San Francisco · 1971 · Don Siegel

Dirty Harry

It ends in Marin, at a flooded quarry, with a badge thrown into the water. Throw it, and watch the rings reach the city.

The star is in your hand. The water is still.

Financial District · Chinatown · North Beach

The roofs.

The film looks down on San Francisco. It opens on a roof, finds a note on another, and spends a night watching a park from a third. Most of them are still there.

A dark granite tower with bay-window ribs rising above the Financial District
555 California Street, the Bank of America Center when the film was made, seen from One Montgomery in 2023. The wub · CC BY-SA 4.0

555 California Street at Kearny Street, Financial District

555 California Street

Callahan walks the roof of the Bank of America tower, looks down on a hotel pool 415 feet below and finds a ransom note addressed to the City of San Francisco.

It rises 52 storeys and 779 feet. Finished in 1969, it was the tallest building west of the Mississippi until the Transamerica Pyramid in 1972.

It was Bank of America’s world headquarters until the 1998 merger with NationsBank; it is now 555 California Street.

The flat gravel roof Callahan walks round can still be picked out from above; the cooling towers behind him have been replaced.

An office tower; the roof is closed. Look up at it from California Street, or from Kearny Street towards Chinatown.

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A concrete hotel tower beside Kearny Street, a footbridge crossing the road
The Hilton at 750 Kearny Street in December 2022, with the pedestrian bridge to Portsmouth Square still across the street. Kylelovesyou · CC0

Then a pool, now a building site across the road

750 Kearny Street and Portsmouth Square, Chinatown

750 Kearny Street and Portsmouth Square

The rooftop pool in the opening scene belonged to the Holiday Inn Chinatown at 750 Kearny Street, brand new when the film was shot. It closed in the renovation that made the hotel the Hilton Financial District, and never reopened.

The hotel opened in 1971 on the site of the old Hall of Justice, San Francisco police headquarters until 1961.

Later Callahan shadows Scorpio through Portsmouth Square. In the 1971 shot the concrete footbridge from the square to the hotel is still being built.

The square closed in June 2026 for about two years of rebuilding, and the footbridge over Kearny Street was taken down in August 2026.

The hotel is open on Kearny Street, with the Chinese Culture Center inside. Portsmouth Square across the road is closed for rebuilding until 2028.

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A cleared construction site with diggers and towers behind, the footbridge supports being removed
Portsmouth Square on 8 August 2026: the footbridge over Kearny Street coming down. San Francisco Public Works. San Francisco Department of Public Works · Public domain
A lawn with people and a white church with two tall spires behind it
Washington Square and the twin spires of Saints Peter and Paul, 2007. Georgio from San Francisco, USA · CC BY 2.0

A North Beach parapet

Washington Square, Columbus Avenue and Filbert Street, North Beach

Washington Square

Scorpio waits on the roof of the Dante Building at 1606 Stockton Street, watching the park. A police helicopter startles him, and the two men on the bench below are unhurt.

The twin spires behind the park are Saints Peter and Paul at 666 Filbert Street, finished in 1924. The first church, from 1884, was lost in 1906.

Washington Square was set aside in 1847, one of the city’s first parks.

A public park with cafés on three sides. Saints Peter and Paul Church faces it on Filbert Street; the Dante Building is at 1606 Stockton Street.

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A row of strip-club fronts with tall blade signs, 1970s cars on the street
Broadway at Columbus Avenue in June 1973, two years after the film: the Condor, Big Al's, the Roaring 20's and the hungry i. Michael Holley · Public domain

Broadway, two years later

Broadway at Columbus

Callahan and Gonzalez cruise the Broadway clubs, past the hungry i, the Roaring 20’s and Big Al’s, when a bulletin comes over the radio.

The Condor Club on the corner became famous in 1964 as the first topless nightclub in the United States.

Big Al’s later became a cigar and gift shop but kept its name and its giant blade sign.

A public street. The clubs open in the evening; the El Cid building at 606 Columbus carries the Jazz Mural, painted in 1987.

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Civic Center · South of Market · the Tenderloin

The offices.

Callahan answers to a Mayor, a chief and a District Attorney, and works out of a building on Bryant Street. One afternoon he is sent up a fire-department ladder instead.

A domed Beaux-Arts city hall at the end of a plaza lined with clipped trees
San Francisco City Hall from Civic Center Plaza, March 2015. Runner1928 · CC BY-SA 4.0

1 Dr Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Civic Center

San Francisco City Hall

The Mayor’s scenes, where the ransom notes are read, were filmed in the Mayor’s office at City Hall.

Arthur Brown Jr.’s Beaux-Arts building reopened in 1915, replacing the City Hall lost in 1906. Its dome rises 307.5 feet.

City Hall docents give free tours of about an hour on Fridays at 11am and 1pm.

Free docent tours of about an hour run on Fridays at 11am and 1pm; ask at the tour kiosk in the Goodlett Lobby.

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The pale stone front of a large civic building with flags, a police car at the kerb
The Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant Street in November 2008. Oliverlives at English Wikipedia · Public domain

850 Bryant Street, South of Market

Hall of Justice

Callahan and Gonzalez walk up to the main entrance, and Callahan comes down into the building from the rooftop helipad, still there but no longer used.

Built in 1958–60, it was the police department’s operational headquarters until 2015.

The offices of Callahan’s boss and the District Attorney were not filmed here; ReelSF places them on the seventh floor of the 1925 PG&E building at 245 Market Street.

Courts still sit here. The front and the city seal on its side are on Bryant Street.

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A tall brown-brick hall with stone trim on a street corner
California Hall at Polk and Turk Streets in August 2022. HaeB · CC BY-SA 4.0

The jumper

625 Polk Street at Turk Street, Tenderloin

California Hall

A man threatens to jump from the roof; Callahan is lifted up on a fire-department cherry picker to talk him down.

Eastwood directed this scene himself.

It was built in 1912 as Das Deutsche Haus, a hall for the city’s German societies, and renamed California Hall in 1918.

It was a music venue through the 1960s, 70s and 80s, then home to the California Culinary Academy and the Academy of Art’s fashion school.

Not open to the public. See its front from the corner of Polk and Turk.

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Clint Eastwood leaning over a car roof to look through a film camera, people watching behind him
Eastwood at a Panavision camera on the set of Breezy in late 1972, a year after Dirty Harry; a Universal publicity photograph. Universal Pictures (photographer unknown) · Public domain

Eastwood directed the California Hall scene himself. A year later he was behind the camera again, here on the set of Breezy in late 1972.

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Marina Green to Mount Davidson

The ransom run.

$200,000 in a yellow bag, no car, and a voice that moves him from phone to phone so he cannot be followed. Five stops, in order.

  1. Moored yachts on still water, palm and cypress trees beyond
    The Marina harbour in January 2014, Fort Mason's trees on the far side. King of Hearts · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Wait by the harbour with the bag. No car.

    Marina Green

    Marina Boulevard, Marina District

    The ransom run starts here. Callahan waits by the East Harbor with $200,000 in a yellow bag until a public phone rings; he may not use a car.

    The lampposts along the path stand where they stood in 1971.

    Before 1906 this was tidal marsh. It was filled for the 1915 Exposition and is now 74 acres of grass with views of the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz.

    On foot, with the bag.

    Open grass on the bay, between Fort Mason and the Presidio. The run starts on the path by the East Harbor.

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  2. A low Spanish-style station building with arched windows and a red-and-white bus in front
    Forest Hill station on Laguna Honda Boulevard in January 2018; its first name, Laguna Honda, is still carved on the headhouse. Pi.1415926535 · CC BY-SA 3.0

    Go to Forest Hill station, roughly six miles away.

    Forest Hill station

    Laguna Honda Boulevard at Dewey Boulevard, Forest Hill

    Callahan runs down to the inbound platform and forces open the doors of a departing streetcar.

    It opened on 3 February 1918 with the Twin Peaks Tunnel, as Laguna Honda; the old name is carved on the headhouse. It is the oldest subway station west of Philadelphia and east of Istanbul.

    A 1985 remodel changed its walls and tiles. A vintage public phone box is now on show nearby.

    He gets there and runs downstairs.

    A working Muni Metro station; the platforms are open to anyone with a fare.

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  3. A streetcar on a grassy right of way crossing a street, the city skyline beyond
    The J-Church line at 20th Street on the edge of Dolores Park, January 2016, downtown in the distance. Blackguard SF · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Take the streetcar to Church and 20th.

    Church and 20th

    Church Street at 20th Street, Dolores Park

    Callahan gets off at Church and 20th, runs to the corner phone and is sent back across town to Aquatic Park.

    The film calls it the K car, but the line is the J-Church, and the car is number 1169, the same one he boarded at Forest Hill.

    The bench shelter has gone; the pole still marks the stop.

    The J-Church still runs along the park’s western edge.

    By streetcar, then across the road at a run.

    The film says K: the K car, Ingleside.

    The south-west corner of Dolores Park, on the J-Church line. The best views of downtown in the park are from this corner.

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  4. A sealed concrete railway tunnel mouth in a grassy slope
    The east portal of the Fort Mason Tunnel by Van Ness Avenue, August 2017, sealed. Pi.1415926535 · CC BY-SA 3.0

    Back across town: the phone by the hamburger stand at Aquatic Park.

    Fort Mason Tunnel and Aquatic Park

    Van Ness Avenue at Bay Street, by Aquatic Park

    Callahan runs through the railway tunnel under Fort Mason and grabs a ringing phone beside a hamburger stand at Aquatic Park.

    The tunnel was built in 1913 for the 1915 Exposition and carried freight on the State Belt Railroad. Its portals are now boarded up and the tracks are gone.

    The stand is one of two streamline moderne concession stands left from the 1930s.

    He runs the Fort Mason tunnel.

    The tunnel is sealed; its east portal is by the foot of Van Ness Avenue. The 1930s concession stand is opposite.

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  5. A tall white concrete cross in a clearing ringed by trees
    The cross on Mount Davidson in February 2010. Daniel Ramirez from Honolulu, USA · CC BY 2.0

    Mount Davidson. Go to the cross.

    The Mount Davidson cross

    Mount Davidson Park, Dalewood Way and Myra Way

    The run ends at the foot of the 103-foot concrete cross, where Scorpio is waiting in the dark.

    The cinematographer, Bruce Surtees, rode a crane to the top of the cross every night for a month, held back by fog.

    Mount Davidson is the highest natural point in San Francisco, 928 feet. The cross was lit for the first time by President Roosevelt, by telegraph, on 24 March 1934.

    In 1997 the city auctioned the cross and the land under it. The Council of Armenian American Organizations of Northern California bought it for $26,000.

    More than six miles again, up the city’s highest hill.

    Trails climb through the woods of Mount Davidson Park. The 36 Teresita bus stops at the Dalewood Way and Myra Way entrance. The summit land is privately owned.

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A white cross at the end of an earth path, fading into grey fog
The cross in fog, September 2013. Tim Adams · CC BY 3.0
Every night for a month, Bruce Surtees rode a crane to the top of the cross and waited for the fog.
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The bank on Pine and Battery

Not San Francisco.

The film’s most quoted scene, a bank robbery across the street from Callahan’s lunch, was not shot in San Francisco at all. Lay the film’s corner on the real street grid.

  • The real grid: California, Pine, Sansome and Battery, all crossing.
CALIFORNIAPINESANSOMEBATTERY
A long open-sided blue tram with UNIVERSAL STUDIOS on its side
A Studio Tour tram at Universal Studios Hollywood, January 2013. METRO96 · CC BY-SA 3.0

100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, Los Angeles

Universal Studios Hollywood

The bank robbery and the diner were filmed on Universal’s back lot in Hollywood, not in San Francisco.

The corner is signed as Pine and Battery, with a California and Market cable car going by. No such line ever ran there, and Battery Street crosses California rather than ending at it.

A fire in 2008 burned much of the back lot. The street layout was rebuilt the same, and the film’s bank building survived.

The Studio Tour, a guided tram ride of 45 minutes to an hour, has run through the back lot since 1964.

A ticketed theme park. The Studio Tour tram runs through the working back lot.

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Pink classical columns in front of a running track and low stands
Kezar Stadium's Frederick Street entrance and the rebuilt stands, 2012. Cliff from Arlington, Virginia, USA · CC BY 2.0

Golden Gate Park · months after the 49ers left

Night at Kezar.

Callahan tracks Scorpio from the groundskeeper’s rooms under the stands onto the field; the lights come on and a helicopter camera pulls away into the dark.

Eastwood and Siegel chose it after watching a 49ers game there.

It opened in 1925. The 49ers played their last game there on 3 January 1971 and moved to Candlestick Park; months later the film crew moved in.

It was demolished in 1989 and rebuilt for 10,000, with an eight-lane all-weather track open to the public.

The rebuilt stadium’s eight-lane track is open for public use, shared with school teams.

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Grandview Park to Larkspur

The jump.

Scorpio takes a school bus from Golden Gate Heights, through the park and over the Golden Gate into Marin. Callahan is waiting on a railway trestle at the Larkspur exit.

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The bus is coming down Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. Drop when it is under you.

A sweep of pastel houses below a hilltop fence and a cypress tree
The view north from Grandview Park in December 2023, over the Sunset to Golden Gate Park. Mx. Granger · CC0

Where he boards

14th Avenue and Noriega Street, Golden Gate Heights

Grandview Park

Scorpio boards the school bus on 15th Avenue, on the west side of the park, coming up the steps from the street below.

The summit rises to about 666 feet: a chert outcrop crowned with Monterey cypress, with views over Golden Gate Park to the ocean and the Marin headlands.

A hilltop park; keep to the paths. The 16th Avenue Tiled Steps lead up to it.

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A white ferry moored beside a terminal under a white space-frame canopy
Larkspur Landing, built where Hutchinson's quarry was, with the ferry Del Norte in November 2018. Pi.1415926535 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Where it ends

101 East Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Larkspur, Marin County

Larkspur Landing

From a railway trestle over Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Callahan drops onto the roof of the bus. Eastwood made the jump himself, without a double.

The trestle was built in 1884 and taken down in 2003 after a lorry hit it.

The finale was filmed at a water-filled gravel pit behind Hutchinson’s quarry. The site was cleared in the 1970s for the ferry terminal, the Marin Country Mart, a hotel, offices and flats.

As the credits roll, Callahan throws his badge into the water. Eastwood first resisted it; Siegel saw it as rejecting bureaucracy, not quitting.

A small ornamental lake at the Serenity at Larkspur apartments is all that is left of the pit.

The ferry terminal opened on 11 December 1976 under a white space-frame canopy.

Golden Gate Ferry runs here from downtown San Francisco. The Marin Country Mart is next to the terminal.

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Larkspur Landing · the quarry pond

The pond.

As the credits roll, Callahan throws his badge into a flooded gravel pit and walks away. The pit is gone: a ferry terminal and flats stand on it, and a small ornamental lake is all that is left. Throw the star there and let the rings cross the bay.

5 km10 km15 km20 kmMARINTHE GOLDEN GATESAN FRANCISCO

The star is in your hand. The water is still.

    Where we read it
    The lit canopy of a ferry terminal reflected in dark water
    Larkspur Landing at night, October 2015. Emily Mathews from Ann Arbor, MI · CC BY 2.0
    Golden Gate Ferry

    Golden Gate Ferry to Larkspur

    Larkspur

    The commuter ferry from downtown San Francisco to Larkspur Landing, the terminal built where Hutchinson’s quarry and its pond were. The Marin Country Mart is beside it.

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    The people

    Who made it.

    • Clint Eastwood in a white T-shirt beside a film camera, pointing as he gives an instruction
      Clint Eastwood in Mexico in 1969, on Two Mules for Sister Sara, his first film with Don Siegel; a Universal publicity photograph. Universal Pictures (photographer unknown) · Public domain
      Clint EastwoodHarry Callahan · 1969
    • Clint Eastwood leaning over a car roof to look through a film camera, people watching behind him
      Eastwood at a Panavision camera on the set of Breezy in late 1972, a year after Dirty Harry; a Universal publicity photograph. Universal Pictures (photographer unknown) · Public domain
      Clint Eastwood, directingOn Breezy · 1972
    • Head and shoulders portrait of Reni Santoni in a checked jacket and tie, smiling
      Reni Santoni, who played Inspector Chico Gonzalez, in an ABC publicity photograph from 1973. ABC Television · Public domain
      Reni SantoniChico Gonzalez · 1973
    • Harry Guardino in a dark raincoat and tie, standing
      Harry Guardino, who played Lieutenant Bressler, in a CBS publicity photograph from 1964, seven years before the film. CBS Television · Public domain
      Harry GuardinoLt. Al Bressler · 1964
    • Lalo Schifrin laughing at a piano, one hand raised
      Lalo Schifrin, who wrote the score, in a Dot Records publicity photograph from 1968. Dot Records · Public domain
      Lalo SchifrinThe score · 1968

    Don Siegel directed it. Eastwood brought in Andy Robinson, then little known, to play Scorpio after seeing him on stage. Around them are John Vernon as the Mayor, John Larch as the chief and Josef Sommer as the District Attorney. The script began as Dead Right, by Harry Julian Fink and Rita M. Fink.

    1. April 1971Filming begins, with night shoots and aerial work over San Francisco
    2. $4mThe budget
    3. 22 Dec 1971Premiere; in cinemas the next day
    4. $36mUS earnings, the fourth-highest of 1971
    Where we read it

    • Cast, the Finks’ script Dead Right, Robinson’s casting after Eastwood saw him in a play, filming from April 1971 with night and aerial work, the $4 million budget, the premiere on 22 December 1971 and about $36 million in the US.

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    Where it is now

    16 places you can visit: 14 in San Francisco, one in Marin and one on a Hollywood back lot.

    Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.

    • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. An office tower; the roof is closed. Look up at it from California Street, or from Kearny Street towards Chinatown.

    • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. The hotel is open on Kearny Street, with the Chinese Culture Center inside. Portsmouth Square across the road is closed for rebuilding until 2028.

    • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public park with cafés on three sides. Saints Peter and Paul Church faces it on Filbert Street; the Dante Building is at 1606 Stockton Street.

    • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public street. The clubs open in the evening; the El Cid building at 606 Columbus carries the Jazz Mural, painted in 1987.

    1. A dark granite tower with bay-window ribs rising above the Financial District
      555 California Street, the Bank of America Center when the film was made, seen from One Montgomery in 2023. The wub · CC BY-SA 4.0

      555 California Street at Kearny Street, Financial District

      555 California Street

      Callahan walks the roof of the Bank of America tower, looks down on a hotel pool 415 feet below and finds a ransom note addressed to the City of San Francisco.

      An office tower; the roof is closed. Look up at it from California Street, or from Kearny Street towards Chinatown.

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    2. A concrete hotel tower beside Kearny Street, a footbridge crossing the road
      The Hilton at 750 Kearny Street in December 2022, with the pedestrian bridge to Portsmouth Square still across the street. Kylelovesyou · CC0

      750 Kearny Street and Portsmouth Square, Chinatown

      750 Kearny Street and Portsmouth Square

      The rooftop pool in the opening scene belonged to the Holiday Inn Chinatown at 750 Kearny Street, brand new when the film was shot. It closed in the renovation that made the hotel the Hilton Financial District, and never reopened.

      The hotel is open on Kearny Street, with the Chinese Culture Center inside. Portsmouth Square across the road is closed for rebuilding until 2028.

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    3. A lawn with people and a white church with two tall spires behind it
      Washington Square and the twin spires of Saints Peter and Paul, 2007. Georgio from San Francisco, USA · CC BY 2.0

      Washington Square, Columbus Avenue and Filbert Street, North Beach

      Washington Square

      Scorpio waits on the roof of the Dante Building at 1606 Stockton Street, watching the park. A police helicopter startles him, and the two men on the bench below are unhurt.

      A public park with cafés on three sides. Saints Peter and Paul Church faces it on Filbert Street; the Dante Building is at 1606 Stockton Street.

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    4. A row of strip-club fronts with tall blade signs, 1970s cars on the street
      Broadway at Columbus Avenue in June 1973, two years after the film: the Condor, Big Al's, the Roaring 20's and the hungry i. Michael Holley · Public domain

      Broadway at Columbus Avenue, North Beach

      Broadway at Columbus

      Callahan and Gonzalez cruise the Broadway clubs, past the hungry i, the Roaring 20’s and Big Al’s, when a bulletin comes over the radio.

      A public street. The clubs open in the evening; the El Cid building at 606 Columbus carries the Jazz Mural, painted in 1987.

      Where we read it

    Stay

    Check in.

    The hotel built in 1971 over the old Hall of Justice, whose rooftop pool opens the film.

    Hilton

    Hilton San Francisco Financial District

    Chinatown and the Financial District

    The hotel at 750 Kearny Street, opened in 1971 as the Holiday Inn whose rooftop pool opens the film; it stands on the site of the old Hall of Justice, and the Chinese Culture Center is inside. The pool has been closed since the 2006 renovation.

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    Film-location and North Beach walking tours, and the ferry out to Larkspur.

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    Golden Gate Ferry

    Golden Gate Ferry to Larkspur

    Larkspur

    The commuter ferry from downtown San Francisco to Larkspur Landing, the terminal built where Hutchinson’s quarry and its pond were. The Marin Country Mart is beside it.

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    Ring report

    Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.

    16 of 16 places · 18 of 18 Moments

    • 555 California Street

      555 California Street at Kearny Street, Financial District

      • The note

        Callahan walks the Bank of America roof and finds a ransom note for the City of San Francisco.

    • 750 Kearny Street and Portsmouth Square

      750 Kearny Street and Portsmouth Square, Chinatown

      • The opening

        The film opens high over Kearny Street: a rifleman on a roof, a woman swimming in a new hotel’s rooftop pool.

      • Portsmouth Square

        Released, Scorpio walks Portsmouth Square; Callahan makes sure he is seen following.

    • Washington Square

      Washington Square, Columbus Avenue and Filbert Street, North Beach

      • The rooftop watch

        Scorpio waits on a North Beach roof over Washington Square until a police helicopter flushes him out.

    • Broadway at Columbus

      Broadway at Columbus Avenue, North Beach

      • Broadway

        Callahan and Gonzalez cruise the clubs of Broadway at night.

    • San Francisco City Hall

      1 Dr Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Civic Center

      • The Mayor’s office

        The ransom notes reach the Mayor’s office at City Hall.

    • Hall of Justice

      850 Bryant Street, South of Market

      • Headquarters

        Callahan and Gonzalez walk into the Hall of Justice; later Callahan comes down from its rooftop helipad.

    • California Hall

      625 Polk Street at Turk Street, Tenderloin

      • The jumper

        Callahan goes up on a cherry picker to talk a man off the roof, in the scene Eastwood directed.

    • Marina Green

      Marina Boulevard, Marina District

      • The first phone

        The run begins: a yellow bag, a harbour path and a phone that rings.

    • Forest Hill station

      Laguna Honda Boulevard at Dewey Boulevard, Forest Hill

      • Downstairs

        Callahan races down to the platform and forces his way onto a streetcar.

    • Church and 20th

      Church Street at 20th Street, Dolores Park

      • Church and 20th

        Off the streetcar, across the road, to the next phone.

    • Fort Mason Tunnel and Aquatic Park

      Van Ness Avenue at Bay Street, by Aquatic Park

      • The tunnel

        Through the Fort Mason tunnel to a phone beside a hamburger stand.

    • The Mount Davidson cross

      Mount Davidson Park, Dalewood Way and Myra Way

      • The cross

        The run ends at the foot of the cross on Mount Davidson, at night.

    • Kezar Stadium

      670 Kezar Drive, Golden Gate Park

      • Kezar

        Callahan corners Scorpio on the empty field at Kezar Stadium as the lights come on.

    • Grandview Park

      14th Avenue and Noriega Street, Golden Gate Heights

      • The school bus

        Scorpio boards a school bus beside Grandview Park and drives it out of the city.

    • Larkspur Landing

      101 East Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Larkspur, Marin County

      • The trestle

        Callahan drops from a railway trestle onto the roof of the moving bus.

      • The badge

        At the quarry pond, Callahan throws his badge into the water and walks away.

    • Universal Studios Hollywood

      100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, Los Angeles

      • The bank on the back lot

        Callahan’s lunch is interrupted by a bank robbery across the street; the corner is a set in Hollywood.

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