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Sudden Impact
1983
After a seven-year break from playing Harry Callahan, Clint Eastwood returned to direct, produce, and star in this, the third sequel to DIRTY HARRY. In this one, Harry gets himself in trouble with the police brass yet again. To get him out of town, they send him up to San Paulo to do a background investigation on a murder .. Read more
| Starring | Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Bradford Dillman, Pat Hingle |
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| Director | Clint Eastwood |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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Sudden Impact
After a seven-year break from playing Harry Callahan, Clint Eastwood returned to direct, produce, and star in this, the third sequel to DIRTY HARRY. In this one, Harry gets himself in trouble with the police brass yet again. To get him out of town, they send him up to San Paulo to do a background investigation on a murder victim. Unfortunately, his enemies follow him. That's unfortunate for his enemies, of course. Callahan also finds himself falling for a mysterious woman (Sondra Locke) who's actually the killer in the case he's investigating. Followed by THE DEAD POOL.
| Starring | Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Bradford Dillman, Pat Hingle |
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| Director | Clint Eastwood |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 52 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 52 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Dubbed | French, Italian |
| Hearing-impaired | English, Italian |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish |
| Released | DVD: 21 Jan 2002 Blu-ray: 09 Jun 2008 Production year: 1983 |
| Format | DVD |
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This fourth outing for Clint Eastwood's magnum enforcer, “Dirty” Harry Callahan has the big man with the big gun hunting a woman who's systematically tracking down and terminating the sickos who raped her and her sister. Sondra Locke, Eastwood's partner at the time, plays the ladykiller. More down and dirty than previous Harrys, it won't disappoint series fans, even if the formula is starting to wear a little thin. Incidentally, this is the film in which Eastwood delivers his much-quoted “Go ahead, make my day” quip.
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It's the man again; back with a flatulent dog and his brand new .44 Magnum Automatic, investigating the trail of a... read more on Time Out
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
After The Enforcer the Dirty Harry series appeared to have run out of steam. The opening half-hour of Sudden Impact do little to inspire confidence, as all the familiar cliches are wheeled out yet again - Harry having a case thrown out because of inadmissable evidence, Harry dispensing his own brand of vigilante justice ( complete with new tag line "Make my day - punk!"), Harry getting busted by his superiors. Eastwood himself taking over the direction duties make things look a bit more polished, but it's still predictable stuff. Luckily when the main storyline finally kicks in things become a bit more interesting, as - in a throwback to Magnum Force - Harry finds himself havng to question his own morality when he finds out the murderer he's chasing is a revenge seeking vigilante. Its no classic, but Sudden Impact has enough moments of interest to be watchable for Dirty Harry fans.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
After The Enforcer the Dirty Harry series appeared to have run out of steam. The opening half-hour of Sudden Impact do little to inspire confidence, as all the familiar cliches are wheeled out yet again - Harry having a case thrown out because of inadmissable evidence, Harry dispensing his own brand of vigilante justice ( complete with new tag line "Make my day - punk!"), Harry getting busted by his superiors. Eastwood himself taking over the direction duties make things look a bit more polished, but it's still predictable stuff. Luckily when the main storyline finally kicks in things become a bit more interesting, as - in a throwback to Magnum Force - Harry finds himself havng to question his own morality when he finds out the murderer he's chasing is a revenge seeking vigilante. Its no classic, but Sudden Impact has enough moments of interest to be watchable for Dirty Harry fans.
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Sudden Impact
After a seven-year break from playing Harry Callahan, Clint Eastwood returned to direct, produce, and star in this, the third sequel to DIRTY HARRY. In this one, Harry gets himself in trouble with the police brass yet again. To get him out of town, they send him up to San Paulo to do a background ...
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