The Dead Pool (movie)

[GypsySoul]

BLENDER (mag) November 2003 Issue
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Did I really see Guns N? Roses? Slash, Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin shooting a harpoon through the window of a boat in the 1988 Clint Eastwood movie The Dead Pool?  There aren?t too many other guys walking around in top hats and leather pants, so if that wasn?t them, that?s a huge-ass coincidence! ? Kyle Nunweiler, Calgary, Alberta


No, you?re right.  Their uncredited appearance in the fifth and final Dirty Harry movie was filmed just prior to their international superstardom.  The wharf scene was filmed on the San Francisco Drydock, with Slash deemed the most suitable harpoon shooter.  Steven Adler and Axl Rose also appear with their bandmates in an earlier funeral scene.

The film is also notable for a youthful cameo from Jim (then James) Carrey as soon-to-be-murdered rock star Johnny Squares.  The scene where he impersonates Axl Rose while atrociously lip-syncing Guns N? Roses? ?Welcome to the Jungle? is really something.


Guns N? Roses, before Axl Rose had his pants surgically removed


Slash:  Snooort!

[Dizzy]

Saw them in the funeral scene, but I missed the scene where Slash shot that harpoon!

[Izzy]

I love that film, all five of them are in the funeral scene....Izzy is hard to spot but is there, u can just see his head and ever present ciggie, and later at the baot scene Izzy, Slash and Duff are all there, Izzy looks soooooo bored ahahahah

[Mattman]

Slash:  Snooort!

LOL!  That caption is priceless.  

[matt88]

i missed the harpoon shot

[Koskenkorvasieni]

I saw the harpoon shot scene, but I missed GNR in the funeral scene..Jim Carrey lip-syncing WTTJ was so funny..that scene had me rolling on the floor a couple of times..