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Dirty Harry , 1971
English
USA
Profile of Dirty Harry
The mood of Dirty Harry is disturbing, tense, and rough. The plot centers around going against the rules, a tough law enforcer, and rebellion. It is a thriller, action, and crime movie. In approach, Dirty Harry is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. The setting is San Francisco. Dirty Harry happens in the 20th century. The movie is known for being groundbreaking, controversial, and a classic. It is especially suggested for a boys' night. Note that Dirty Harry includes strong violent content and profanity.
Summary of Dirty Harry
A tremendously controversial film, both decried as an apologia for fascism and hailed as the solution to a decade of rising crime, DIRTY HARRY propelled Clint Eastwood's career into the stratosphere while adding another archetype to join his Man with No Name in film iconography. Clint stars as Harry Callahan, a truculent San Francisco police detective well known for his vicious take-no-prisoners attitude toward criminals. With the city of San Francisco being terrorized by the psychotic killer known only as Scorpio (Andrew Robinson), Harry is assigned by the mayor (John Vernon) and Lt. Bressler (Harry Guardino) to try to stop him, pairing him with reluctantly accepted new partner Chico (Reni Santoni). Scorpio kidnaps a 14-year-old girl and buries her alive, demanding a $200,000 ransom for her return. Harry is to bring him the money--alone. What follows is one of the most exciting ransom deliveries in film history. The prototype for most of the action films through the rest of the century, DIRTY HARRY rises far above most of them due mostly to an excellent script and Eastwood's gripping acting. That said, the main character's contemptuous attitude toward the Miranda law seems far more damning now that it did in the early 1970s.
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| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 23 December 1971 |
| Runtime: | 99 min |
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as Insp. Harry Callahan
as Lt. Al Bressler
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A classic tough-guy cop thriller. There is no actor that more successfully pulled off the gruff, fringe, cop better than Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry. Andrew Robinson pulls off a chilling demented serial killer who always seems to be just beyond...
- 24.January.2009
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- by: Alex Stajos
- Alex Stajos rated this movie7/10Good
Quotable, memorable, controversial, it's the mother and father of all rough law-enforcers! Still as socially relevant as it was almost 40 years ago, and maybe even more in our PC era. A great performance by Eastwood that established him as one of...
- 13.August.2008
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- by: Ami Burg
- Ami Burg rated this movie
10/10Must See
