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Overview

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Director:
Don Siegel
Writers:
Harry Julian Fink (screenplay) &
Rita M. Fink (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
23 December 1971 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Crime | Thriller more
Tagline:
You don't assign him to murder cases, You just turn him loose. more
Plot:
A San Francisco cop with little regard for rules (but who always gets results) tries to track down a serial killer who snipes at random victims. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
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User Comments:
One of the defining film of the 1970s more (218 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Clint Eastwood ... Police Inspector Harry Callahan
Harry Guardino ... Police Lt. Al Bressler
Reni Santoni ... Police Inspector Chico Gonzalez

John Vernon ... The Mayor

Andrew Robinson ... Scorpio Killer (as Andy Robinson)
John Larch ... The Chief
John Mitchum ... Police Inspector Frank DiGiorgio
Mae Mercer ... Mrs. Russell
Lyn Edgington ... Norma
Ruth Kobart ... Bus Driver

Woodrow Parfrey ... Mr. Jaffe
Josef Sommer ... Dist. Atty. William T. Rothko
William Paterson ... Judge Bannerman
James Nolan ... Liquor Store Owner
Maurice Argent ... Sid Kleinman (as Maurice S. Argent)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Dead Right (USA) (original script title)
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Runtime:
102 min | Portugal:99 min (cut version)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Canada:13+ (Québec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba) | Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Iceland:16 | UK:X (original rating) | Finland:K-16 (1972) (cut) (re-rating after appeal) | Netherlands:12 (TV rating) | Netherlands:16 | France:-12 | UK:15 (2008) | Ireland:15 (re-rating) (2008) | Ireland:18 | Finland:K-15 (DVD rating) | Argentina:18 | Peru:18 | Norway:15 (DVD rating) | Brazil:14 | Australia:MA | Australia:R (original rating) | Finland:(Banned) (1972) | Italy:VM14 | New Zealand:R16 | Norway:16 (cut) | Norway:18 | Singapore:M18 | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:16

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Trivia:
'Dirty Harry' is the slang term for a photographer (either shooting paparazzi and/or modeling shoots) with a single lens reflex (SLR) camera. The slang term for an SLR camera is a .44 Magnum. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Scorpio pays a man to beat him up, there is a moment when the man wishes to stop the beating. We see Scorpio's face, and he is severally disfigured. The man hits him a few more times and then the beating ends. When he arrives in hospital, Scorpio's entire face is in bandages. However, only a few weeks later, Scorpio is released from hospital with only a small plaster across the bridge of his nose. The severity of the injuries seen when he is getting beaten would not have dissipated in only a few weeks, indeed, they would almost certainly lead to permanent disfigurement, yet other than the plaster, Scorpio appears unblemished. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Harry Callahan: Jesus.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' (1992) (TV) more

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71 out of 100 people found the following comment useful.
One of the defining film of the 1970s, 18 October 2003
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Author: Brian W. Fairbanks (brianwfairbanks@yahoo.com) from Cleveland, Ohio

Released on Christmas Day 1971, "Dirty Harry" transformed Clint Eastwood from cult figure to superstar. Another maverick cop thriller, "The French Connection," was released a few months earlier, and it may have won the Oscars and garnered the critical acclaim, but "Dirty Harry" is the true classic of the two, and the most influential. Great action magnificently directed by Don Siegel, the master of the genre, great dialogue, and relentless tension make this the ultimate detective thriller and one of the defining films of the 1970s.

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