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1971 Certificate 18 Certificate 18
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You've got to ask yourself a question: 'do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk? Dirty Harry provoked a critical uproar in 1971 for its fascist message about the power of one, as it also elevated Clint Eastwood to superstar status through his most enduring screen persona. Harry Callahan (Eastwood, in a role meant for Frank Sinatra) .. Read more

Starring Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon
Director Don Siegel
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller

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You've got to ask yourself a question: 'do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk? Dirty Harry provoked a critical uproar in 1971 for its fascist message about the power of one, as it also elevated Clint Eastwood to superstar status through his most enduring screen persona. Harry Callahan (Eastwood, in a role meant for Frank Sinatra) is a sardonic, hard-working San Francisco cop who can't finish his lunch without having to foil a bank robbery with his 44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world. When hippie-esque psycho Scorpio (Andy Robinson) goes on a killing spree, Harry and new partner Chico (Reni Santoni) are assigned to hunt him down, but not before the Mayor (John Vernon) and Lt. Bressler (Harry Guardino) admonish Callahan about his heavy-handed tactics. Racing against a deadline to save a kidnap victim from suffocating to death and unbothered by the niceties of Miranda rights and search warrants, Callahan brings in Scorpio, only to see him released on technicalities. The law's crazy, opines Harry in disgust, before taking it upon himself to ensure that Scorpio doesn't kill again. Directed in violent and efficient fashion by Don Siegel, with a propulsive score by Lalo Schifrin, Dirty Harry was the fourth Siegel-Eastwood collaboration after Coogan's Bluff (1968), Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), and The Beguiled (1970). Critics at the time strongly objected to the heroic image of a cop's violations of a suspect's Miranda rights, forcing Siegel and Eastwood to deny that they were right-wing reactionaries. All the same, Dirty Harry proved to be highly popular and spawned four sequels: Magnum Force (1973), The Enforcer (1976), Sudden Impact (1983), and The Dead Pool (1988).~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide

Starring Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon, John Mitchum, Andrew Robinson, John Larch, Josef Sommer
Director Don Siegel
Studio WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time DVD: 1 hr 38 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 38 mins
LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 38 mins
Certificate Certificate 18 DVD
Certificate 18 LOVEFiLM Instant
Collections 100 Top Thrillers
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller
Language DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
LOVEFiLM Instant: English
Dubbed French, Italian
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: Arabic, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Released Production year: 1971

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DVD: 04 Jul 2005
Blu-ray: 09 Jun 2008
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