
In 1971, San Francisco faces the terror of a maniac known as the "Scorpio Killer" (Andrew Robinson), who snipes at innocent victims and demands ransom through notes left at the scene of the crime. Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is assigned to the case along with his newest partner Inspector Chico Gonzalez (Reni Santoni) to track down Scorpio and stop him. Using humiliation and cat-and-mouse type of games against Callahan, Scorpio is put to the test with the... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1971, San Francisco faces the terror of a maniac known as the "Scorpio Killer" (Andrew Robinson), who snipes at innocent victims and demands ransom through notes left at the scene of the crime. Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is assigned to the case along with his newest partner Inspector Chico Gonzalez (Reni Santoni) to track down Scorpio and stop him. Using humiliation and cat-and-mouse type of games against Callahan, Scorpio is put to the test with the cop with a dirty attitude.
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| Seanax.comSean Axmaker... as Inspector Harry Callahan, known to the squad as Dirty Harry, Eastwood turned his frontier persona into an urban cowboy on the mean streets of our urban world. |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.Don Siegel's action thriller hasn't aged a single day since its release... |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrA crisp, beautifully paced film, full of Siegel's wonderful coups of cutting and framing. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanNo 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. |
| EmpireMark DinningIt is also, of course, quite unrelentingly cool. |
| Time OutJoshua RothkopfTry to get Siegel’s masterful camera rise out of your head: gun-happy Harry looming over his jabbering perp, who screams like a stuck pig as the shot recedes high into a dense night fog. This is not a cop film. It’s a monster movie. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe pleasures of this movie are abundant. The pacing is as swift as a speeding bullet. There are wonderfully evoked lived-in San Francisco locations... And there are splendid set pieces that showcase the perpetually-underrated Don Siegel's great skill a director. This film is efficient, unpretentious and much wittier and more stylish than your average cop movie. |
| Internet ReviewsSteve RhodesDo you feel lucky? Well, you will be if you get the DIRTY HARRY collection being re-released to some sharp looking DVDs. |
| Apollo GuideRyan CracknellFull of wit, action and grit, Dirty Harry is a vigilante classic. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole Smithey"Dirty Harry" is still one of the most enjoyable films you could hope to sit down with for a couple of hours. |