Bradford Dillman, Clint Eastwood, DeVeren Bookwalter

Dirty Harry'' Callahan and his female partner hunt rocket-armed radicals holding the mayor on Alcatraz.

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R, 1 hr. 36 min.

Directed by: James Fargo

Release Date: January 1, 1976

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DVD Release Date: November 20, 2001

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  • November 10, 2009
    the first dirty harry film where the bad guys don't really cut the mustard. it plays more like a routine actioner than anything tense or too re-watchable, but makes up for it with the most interesting sidekick yet in tyne daly
  • September 30, 2009
    I used to have such a crush on Tyne Daly. I remember seeing this on TV in the 80's and crying at the end. 'Why did he have to shoot Lacey?', oh dear, it?s all coming back now...
  • November 9, 2008
    This movie was great back in the day. I just rewatched it and it wasn't quite as good 30 years later.
  • June 9, 2008
    Dirty Harry vs. Terrorist Hippies. Things start to slip in this third installment with Harry getting a female partner (played by Tyne Daly).
    Things started to go stale with this one I'm afraid, though Eastwood still is Dirty Harry. Harry's partner gets killed leads to revenge, l...( read more)eads to the mayor being kidnapped, leads to stuff blowing up. A descent flick, but not up to the standards of the first two.
  • August 5, 2007
    The third picture featuring Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry. Clint Eastwood resumes his role as Police Inspector Harry Callahan; Tyne Daly plays the role of Inspector Kate Moore and Harry Guadino as Lt Al Bressler. Harry gets into one of his usual predicaments when his is relegated...( read more) to Personnel to help interview patrol officers on the list to make inspector. While filling his duties in personnel he learns that there are eight openings for inspector and three of those eight will be filled by woman. A group of people who call themselves the People's Revolutionary Strike Force (PRSF), led by Bobby Maxwell, are making plans to go on a crime spree all over the city of San Francisco. When Dirty Harry's longtime partner is killed by the PRSF during a major weapons theft, Dirty Harry vows revenge and, surprisingly, is given some support by his superiors. Harry has one problem, he's given a new partner and it's non other then a lady inspector. After the Mayor of San Francisco is taken its up to Harry and his new partner are expecting to find him. All and all I give this movie 8 weasel stars
  • November 20, 2009
    In my opinion, the best Dirty Harry movie.
  • November 7, 2009
    Clint Eastwood is awesome!!
  • October 11, 2009
    Whilst this is nowhere near as good as Dirty Harry, it's still a great little thriller.

    Clint is awesome as per usual. He doesn't actually have to do or say a great deal, but his physcial presence alone is all that is required. It's pretty rare to find an actor that can do thi...( read more)s, but I feel that Clint is one of them.

    The story itself is ok, following Harry as he attempts to track down a bunch of hippie terrorists. It's quite fun, but he shares no connection with this group at all. In Dirty Harry, he faces off against Andy Robinson's bad guy on numerous occasions, in this film its all done at a distance which is a shame.

    Overall, this is nothing spectacular, but its competently made and played and lets face it, any flick with Clint playing Harry deserves an audiience.
  • September 1, 2009
    third in the dirty harry films magic
  • August 30, 2009
    (1976 Director: James Fargo) Yes I am old enough to have seen this one when it came out! Call me a sucker for the times or whatever, but I really think this was a great movie about the cool FUZZ. Just watched it again--seeing little (young) Tyne Daly in her debut role as Inspe...( read more)ctor Kate Moore, who has never made an arrest prior to partnering with Honky Inspector Harry Callahan. .

    At the scene of a bombing, these 2 successfully arrest a member of a black militant group Run by Big Ed Mustafa. When he goes to Mustafa's "crib" Mustafa states, "We don't deal in violence."
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