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Dirty Harry

1971 · Film · 102 min

  • Action
  • Crime
  • Thriller

Plot

When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.

About Dirty Harry

Dirty Harry is a 1971 American action-thriller film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the Dirty Harry series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first appearance as San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan. The film drew upon the real-life case of the Zodiac Killer as the Callahan character seeks out a similar vicious psychopath. Dirty Harry was a critical and commercial success and set the style for a whole genre of police films. It was followed by four sequels: Magnum Force in 1973, The Enforcer in 1976, Sudden Impact in 1983, and The Dead Pool in 1988. In 2012, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant".

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Cast

  • Clint EastwoodHarry
  • Harry GuardinoBressler
  • Reni SantoniChico
  • John VernonThe Mayor
  • Andrew RobinsonKiller
  • John LarchChief
  • John MitchumDe Georgio
  • Mae MercerMrs. Russell
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