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Movie Profile
Dirty Harry
1971 ยท United States - Donald Siegel Don Siegel
A sadistic serial killer who calls himself "Scorpio" (Andy Robinson) murders a young woman in a San Francisco swimming pool, using a high-powered rifle from a nearby rooftop. SFPD Inspector Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) finds a ransom message promising his next victims will be "a Catholic priest or a nigger" if the city does not pay $100,000. The chief of police and the Mayor (John Vernon) assign the inspector to the case.
Genres:
Action, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Road Movie, Adventure
Release date:
1971-12-23
External links:
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Rotten Tomatoes
6 Critic reviews
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A.O. Scott
New York Times
August 16, 2011 read full article
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Variety
Clint Eastwood, in the title role, is a superhero whose antics become almost satire. Strip away the philosophical garbage and all that's left is a well-made but shallow running-and-jumping meller.
March 01, 2007 read full article
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Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
A crisp, beautifully paced film, full of Siegel's wonderful coups of cutting and framing.
March 01, 2007 read full article
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J. Hoberman
Village Voice
No less than Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, it offers a fabulous, multifarious political metaphor. (And, as with Body Snatchers, Siegel's own liberal interpretation was trumped by a more forceful hard-right reading.
April 04, 2006 read full article
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Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
If there aren't mentalities like Dirty Harry's at loose in the land, then the movie is irrelevant. If there are, we should not blame the bearer of the bad news.
October 23, 2004 read full article
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Roger Greenspun
New York Times
What makes Dirty Harry worth watching no matter how dumb the story, is Siegel's superb sense of the city, not as a place of moods but as a theater for action.
May 21, 2003 read full article
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