Genre:
Action / Thriller
Directed
by: Don Siegel
Cast:
Clint Eastwood, Andy Robinson, Harry Guardino
Running
time: 102 minutes
Harry Callahan is a police inspector for the
San Fransisco Police Department. They call him Dirty Harry because he always
ends up with the dirtiest jobs and he rarely plays by the rules. When a serial
killer who calls himself Scorpio starts leaving dead bodies and notes behind
him, asking for money in exchange for an end to his reign of terror over the city,
Callahan springs into action.
This is the first of the five installments in
the Dirty Harry franchise. Here, we have Clint Eastwood in top form playing to
his strengths, with guns, fights, blood and a few witty words from the
protagonist.
Sure, Dirty Harry is not a work of finesse
and subtlety. Sure, it might offend some sensitive souls out there with the
language (which is on occasion racially-charged) and the depiction of a rough
kind of justice. That being said, this 1971 remains a great action film where it
is quite easy to root for the main character against a villain trying to use to
weaknesses of the system to get his way.
Clint Eastwood was greatly convincing in what
he had to convey here. The verbiage was not extensive, but the lines they gave
his character were solid. And, Eastwood knew how to deliver that sort of thing.
That “Do you feel lucky, punk” spiel is now part of history. The support cast
was also very good.
The Bay Area made for a beautiful backdrop
for this action film, which has become an ageless classic over the years and
which will still keep you on the edge of your seat, if you are watching it for
the first time. If not, it is still worth watching again and again.
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