Dirty Harry

Name: Dirty Harry
Released: 1971-12-22
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, Andy Robinson, John Larch

Dirty Harry

R
1h 42m
1971

89%

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Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood stars as no-holds-barred San Francisco cop Dirty Harry Calahan in this action thriller that began as an action franchise--Dirty Harry. When detective Harry Calahan is assigned to pay extortion money to a serial murderer, the payoff goes wrong. Now with the life of a 14-year-old girl at stake, Callahan refuses to allow anything--including the law--to keep him from stopping the killer.

Director:

Don Siegel

Producer:

Don Siegel, Robert Delay

Writer:

Harry Julian Fink, R.M. Fink

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, Andy Robinson, John Larch, John Vernon, John Mitchum, Mae Mercer, Lyn Edgington, Ruth Kobart, Woodrow Parfrey, Josef Sommer, William Paterson, James Nolan, Maurice Argent, Jo de Winter, Craig Kelly

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

89%

Critics Consensus: As tough and taciturn as its no-nonsense hero, Dirty Harry delivers a deceptively layered message without sacrificing an ounce of its solid action impact.

Reviews

Times (UK)

Edward Porter

Its star’s growling charisma demands to be enjoyed.

Excellent thriller of the tough cop variety.

Siegel shouldn't have had to shout so much to make himself heard, nor should Eastwood, otherwise excellent, be quite so determined to maintain a star's steely dignity. But a lot still manages to get through about violence and the loner's path.

May 31, 2022

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London Evening Standard

Alexander Walker

Dirty Harry is a film meant to wring the already well wrung and mangled conscience of the liberal. Which it succeeds in doing with engrossing efficiency.

The message, finally, is the least important part of the film; the medium, and the artist's command of it, is the real message. And Siegel has never been more in command of it than here.

May 26, 2022

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