Dirty Harry

1971
X
1h 42m

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7.7/10

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Cop Drama Police Procedural Serial Killer Action Crime Thriller

When a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.When a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.When a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.

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IMDb RATING

7.7/10

174K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

1,681

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Awards
- 2 wins & 4 nominations total

Killer
(as Andy Robinson)

Harry Guardino

Bressler

Reni Santoni

Chico

John Vernon

The Mayor

John Larch

Chief

John Mitchum

De Georgio

Mae Mercer

Mrs. Russell

Lyn Edgington

Norma

Ruth Kobart

Bus Driver

Woodrow Parfrey

Mr. Jaffe

Josef Sommer

Rothko

William Paterson

Bannerman

James Nolan

Liquor Proprietor

Maurice Argent

Sid Kleinman
(as Maurice S. Argent)

Jo de Winter

Miss Willis
(as Jo De Winter)

Craig Kelly

Sgt. Reineke
(as Craig G. Kelly)

Ann Bowen

Yelling Wife
(uncredited)

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Trivia
After Clint Eastwood and Don Siegel came on-board the project, they hired Dean Riesner to work on the script. In his first re-write, the bank robbery scene ends with Harry not pointing the gun at the robber, but placing it against his own temple. He pulls the trigger, laughs, and then walks away. Eastwood and Siegel both felt this was too extreme, even for Harry Callahan.

Goofs
Some considerable time after the first shooting, the police have arrived and Callaghan has climbed up to the roof from where the shooting took place. Yet when he looks down to the rooftop swimming pool, the blood in the pool is still only in one small area, instead of having been dispersed in the water.

Quotes
Harry Callahan: Uh uh. I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?

Crazy credits
During the opening credits, the word "Dirty" in the title is in red as opposed to the rest of the credits' yellow.

Alternate versions
As with all of the "Dirty Harry"-films this one also had some cuts for violent content in the initial Swedish release. Among trimmed scenes were Scorpio pulling Harry's knife out of his leg, and the scene where Scorpio pays a man to beat him up, which was cut by almost 40 seconds.

Connections
Edited into Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity (1999)

Soundtracks
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The best of the Dirtiest

DIRTY HARRY (1971) **** Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Andy Robinson, John Vernon. Eastwood made cinematic lore out of laconic San Francisco renegade cop Harry Callahan known more for his intolerence of the bureaucratic legal system and his firm belief in justice through violent means necessitated by righting wrongs. In the first of the series he's faced with a psycho serial killer named Scorpio (grinning looney toon Robinson) just begging to be noticed. Directed by Eastwood's long-time mentor Don Siegal the film acts as a parable of the system strangle-holding society and still remains an indictment of how bad things still are. Classic Clint.