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Dirty Harry

Andrew Robinson, Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, John Larch, John Mitchum

In the year 1971, San Francisco faces the terror of a maniac known as Scorpio- who snipes at innocent victims and demands ransom through notes left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Harry Callahan ...( read more  read more... )(known as Dirty Harry by his peers through his reputation handling of homicidal cases) is assigned to the case along with his newest partner Inspector Chico Gonzalez to track down Scorpio and stop him. Using humiliation and cat and mouse type of games against Callahan, Scorpio is put to the test with the cop with a dirty attitude.

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  • organgrinder136
    October 29, 2009
    organgrinder136
    better than when john wayne tried being a cop instead of a cowboy. it's got everything you want in it. the dirty harry character suits clint down to the ground. a couple of good one liners in it. looking forward to seeing the other four
  • SirPant
    September 30, 2009
    SirPant
    Classic! The granddaddy of mean, lone cop films. It?s very quotable too and has been ripped off too many times. Siegels direction is also very cool, the pan-out from the stadium is one of my favourite scenes ever.
  • lewiskendell
    August 25, 2009
    lewiskendell
    No one can play a bad-ass, squinting anti-hero like Clint Eastwood. Dirty Harry is full of memorable moments that have influenced so many movies that came after it, and it is a true classic of its genre.

    The killer, Scorpio, is such a sick and reprehensible S.O.B., that it make...( read more)s the viewer want him caught by any means necessary, just like Callahan. Sure, it's a little beyond belief to think that Callahan wouldn't have known that his actions were going to endanger the investigation, but I'd like to think that most people would have done exactly the same things that he did. And when the end finally comes for Scorpio, it is oh so satisfying.

    So yeah, this was an awesome movie. I wish I would have seen it a long time ago. It completely deserves its iconic status.
  • danperry17
    June 9, 2009
    danperry17
    A good template for "unorthodox cop tracks down psycho killer" movies to come, but one that does not age well. I was really disappointed, it's kind of boring and Clint is flat, but I shouldn't be too hard on the Western-outside-the-Western genre, this film is important for that r...( read more)eason as well. Better versions of this film are now so common that, unfortunately, it's just not exciting. No less of a cinematic signpost, though.
  • kenstachnik
    February 26, 2009
    kenstachnik
    Bad ass and way a head of it's time. Worth seeing for the stadium pull back helicopter shot alone.

    A brilliant genre opposite to Zodiac
  • Dannyrovira
    January 3, 2010
    Dannyrovira
    A classic and exciting trend-setting police thriller where Clint Eastwood in a performance that made him an international superstar, plays a San Francisco police inspector out to stop a sadistic serial killer, Andy Robinson in a brilliantly chilling performance. Gritty, suspensef...( read more)ul, well-made with outstanding direction by the late Don Siegel, and a wonderful jazzy score by Lalo Schifrin. But it is the powerful macho mystique conveyed by Eastwood's performance that makes this film so memorable. Highly Recommended.
  • SkywalkerJones
    December 19, 2009
    SkywalkerJones
    I know what you ´re thinking.Did he fire six shots or only five? Well,to tell the truth,after all that excitement i kinda lost the track myself.Since this a Magnum 44.,the most powerfull handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off,you gottta ask yourself one question:...( read more)Do i feel lucky?Well do you,punk?-Harry Callahan.

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    Director:Don Siegel
    Cast:Clint Eastwood,Reni Santoni,Andy Robinson,John Vernon
    Genre:Action,Crime
    Year of release:1971
    Running Time:102 minutes

    Plot:
    1971. San Francisco is under the terrorizing eye of a psychopathic sniper called Scorpio, and claims in one of his written letters to the SFPD, that he will keep killing until his demands are made. Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callahan is a San Francisco police officer, with a dirty attitude and uses little methods to what the law prescribes. It becomes a menacing task for Callahan, as he's been assigned to apprehend the menacing killer at all cost, which later unravels into a cat-and-mouse game between the two men. One killer with a sinister, distasteful laughter. The other, a killer with just a plain dirty attitude who holds the badge

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  • eryri
    December 18, 2009
    eryri
    The original and best out of the 5 in the series. Harry Callahan - one of the best movie characters ever created with Eastwood perfect as him.
  • davidmajor1
    December 10, 2009
    davidmajor1
    Tough Cop, Crazy Criminal, its been done a million times before in movies, but its never worked as well as this before
  • ElCochran90
    December 8, 2009
    ElCochran90
    "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"

    Dirty Harry (1971)


    Director: Don Siegel
    Country: United States of America
    Genre: Action / Crime / Thriller
    Length: 102 minutes

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    To choose a certain topic in order to start talking about the influence, originality and ultimate badass attitude that Dirty Harry has is a rather difficult task. The first film in a long series of unsuccessfully lame sequels is undeniably the best and one of the top thrillers in American history. Not only it managed to attractively establish the most influential and referenced stereotypical characteristics and clichés of a cold-blooded and "cool" male leading role, but it also achieved to gain all of the quality and talent characteristics that a perfectly elaborate thriller of such calibre required. Dirty Harry has become an action icon within American cinema, and it has been referenced and even paid homage endless times throughout the subsequent decades from the making of spoofs to the imitation of dialogues and the very direction style.

    When a sniper starts to kill people randomly in the streets of San Francisco just because of the fun of it (and also for obtaining 100,000 dollars), a cop with no clear authority above him and with no respect towards rules whatsoever decides to go on the hunt independently of the orders that were given to him by the police. Normally, films of this nature (with the rare exception of Die Hard [1988]) are not meant to receive attention from film festivals and academies which, although it is utterly unfair, is a good sign of brilliance. Action is the most underrated filmmaking genre, in my humble opinion.

    The immortal character of Police Inspector Harry Callahan, flawlessly incarnated by the legendary film gunman Clint Eastwood, has the outstanding habit of reminding audiences why stereotypical portrayals of modern action films and thrillers are completely ineffective. Instead of showing the typical model policeman, who usually happens to be an avid follower of the law, Harry literally does not give a sh!t about police authorities and represents the mindless and merciless city gunman who clearly states that he owns the most powerful handgun in the world, a handgun that will be shot if the punk under its powder power is feeling lucky. Naturally, most of its talent and mindblowing and heart-pumping tension is derived from the cataclysmic explosion originated from the collision of the aforementioned character with one of the most insane, psychotic an son-of-a-bitch annoying antagonists that have ever graced the screen, even resembling some of the personality and physical appearance of what would be an Alexander DeLarge.

    Consequently, the quantity of action is adequate and perfectly measured. Dirty Harry is not an action movie in the strictest sense of the genre. It relies most of its effectiveness in an unnerving suspense and in an implicit desperation of Scorpio Killer never being caught, a character who was loosely based on the Zodiac Killer. The direction by Don Siegel, who obtained most of his popularity thanks to the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), is extremely talented and allowed such thing to happen. To build such a thriller with the correct combination of insanity, cool one-liners, quality action and atmospheric suspense is a task that few modern auteurs are capable of doing nowadays. The screenplay is exceptional and the cinematography pays certain attention to urban objects and clues, making it more of an intimate and claustrophobic experience rather than an explosive one.

    People who worship action films such as John McTiernan's Predator (1987) and Die Hard (1988) should often look back at the roots and origins of such stories, screenplays and characters and pay credit to the correct filmmakers, regardless of the fact that they get worse as time goes by. Originality was a beautiful and delicious feature that action films shared, and before mindless action filmmaking and the confusion of the terms "thriller" and "horror" occurred, Dirty Harry was one of the first thrillers that defied the laws of conventional action and conventional, moralistic characters, who can even get boring at some point. Clint Eastwood was the man, and this film is one of the strongest proofs of such statement. The slow pace may confuse the viewer since the beginning, but the second half is highly rewarding.

    87/100
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