Dirty Harry
This is a attractive film which tells about a mad man calling himself 'the Scorpio Killer' menaces the city, tough as nails San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath.
24 October 1915, Waurika, Oklahoma, USA
26 June 1934, Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
15 July 1926, New York City, New York, USA
16 September 1924, Marion County, Indiana, USA
8 August 1932, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
3 September 1926, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
4 March 1916, Pennsylvania, USA
July 03, 2009
Siegel makes excellent use of San Francisco locations, even if Harry makes a few implausible leaps across town from time to time. The Kezar Stadium showdown in particular is a keeper.
October 23, 2004
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.
March 01, 2007
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.
October 03, 2010
"Dirty Harry" is still one of the most enjoyable films you could hope to sit down with for a couple of hours.
April 04, 2006
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.
September 14, 2010
'70s rebel-cop classic is way too edgy for kids.
May 21, 2003
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.
July 06, 2010
Don Siegel's action thriller hasn't aged a single day since its release...
January 26, 2006
Seminal law-and-order cinema.
June 20, 2010
An iconic performance by Clint Eastwood creates a cinematic immortal.
April 16, 2011
A significant film ideologically, this right-wing revenge crimer catapulted Clint Eastwood to major stardom and launched a whole cycle of films about taking the law into your hands.
March 01, 2007
A crisp, beautifully paced film, full of Siegel's wonderful coups of cutting and framing.
