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Harrison Ford, Erect Penis? While making a bit of X-rated gag art for my site (see here), for obvious reasons I needed a random shot of an erect penis. I did a Google image search and I got this, which I thought was funny, because you enter "erect penis" and, it's true, you eventually do find a picture of Harrison Ford.
Harrison Ford, born July 13, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois, made his first film appearance in the James Coburn vehicle Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966), where he played bell hop. Brief roles in A Time for Killing (1967), Luv (1967), Journey to Shiloh (1968), The Intruders (1970) (TV), Getting Straight (1970) and Zabriskie Point (1970) followed. In 1973, Ford made his first film with George Lucas, in a supporting role, as Bob Falfa, in American Graffiti. Another good, but small role in Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974) was next and then he did Judgement: The Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley (1975) (TV), James A. Michener's Dynasty (1976) (TV), The Possessed (1977) (TV), and he was a sidekick to Henry Winkler(!) in Heroes (1977). Also in 1977, he was Han Solo in Lucas' Star Wars. Then came Guy Hamilton's war sequel, Force 10 from Navarone (1978); the silly, old fashioned war romance Hanover Street (1979); briefly reprising his Bob Falfa role in More American Graffiti (1979); Robert Aldrich's comedy-western The Frisco Kid (1979) with Gene Wilder; and an effective cameo (as "Col. G. Lucas") in Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979). Then, he was again, wildly popular as Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back (1980), which was followed the next year by Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), where he was Indiana Jones for the first time. The next year he was Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's highly praised Blade Runner (1982) and Han Solo for a final (so far) time in Return of the Jedi (1983) The first sequel to Raiders, the dismal Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), was followed by his so far only Oscar nominated part, John Book in Peter Weir's Witness. The next year, again for Weir, he was seriously miscast as "Allie Fox" in The Mosquito Coast (1986). But in 1988 he was good in Roman Polanski's outstanding thriller Frantic (1988), and very charming and funny in Mike Nichols' Working Girl (1988). He was again, funny, charming and adventurous in Spielberg's gloriously entertaining Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) where Ford had great chemistry with Sean Connery, as his father, and Denholm Elliott as Marcus Brody. Ford was fine as Rusty Sabich in the courtroom thriller Presumed Innocent (1990), and he was terrible in the awful Regarding Henry (1991). It was about this point where Ford appears to have stopped trying to do anything but collect a paycheck. He begins to recycle himself more and more. He's been playing the same unwilling, aging action hero over and over again: Jack Ryan in Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994); Dr. Richard Kimble in The Fugitive (1993);The Devil's Own (1997); the President in Air Force One (1997); even in the romance of Random Hearts (1999) he was Police Sergeant "Dutch"; and he's silly as a Russian ("Alexei Vostrikov") in the sub-par subgenre submarine thriller K-19: The Widowmaker (2002). The strangest, and most disappointing thing about Ford is that his earlier flair for comedy seems to have vanished, rusted over by grouchiness. He's awful in the Bogart role of Linus Larrabee in the unnecessary and unpleasant Sabrina (1995); and his bickering with Anne Heche in Six Days Seven Nights (1998) is forced and tedious. But Ford's cameo at the end of Jimmy Hollywood (1994) was one of the only good things about that film. He seems unhappy and out of place in the big budget schlock of What Lies Beneath (2000). I've only heard that Hollywood Homicide (2003) (where Ford is cop "Joe Gavilan") is lame. A Walk Among the Tombstones (2004) and a fourth Indiana Jones film (2005) are in pre-production. Denholm Elliott is dead, but let's hope they bring back Connery to co-star ("It was hard work, with long days and different locations all over the place, but it was fun because of the calibre of the actors and the director. I would be happy to do it again" -- Sean Connery [Daily Telegraph, 02/20/01) on the filming of Last Crusade.). Anyway, at some point Harrison Ford did seem to become an "erect penis" -- just a dildo.
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