Dirty Harry (1971)

Directed by

Don Siegel

Genre

action film, vigilante film, crime thriller film, action thriller

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

R

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2,775 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A San Francisco police inspector hunts a serial killer who is terrorizing the city. He uses unorthodox and violent methods to bring the psychopath to justice.

tensegrittyrelentlessunsettlingbleakhard-boiledsuspensefulpropulsive

What happens

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". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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