San Francisco Police Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callahan and his new partner, Early Smith have been temporarily reassigned from Homicide to Stakeout Duty. Meanwhile, those of the city's criminals who manage to avoid punishment by the courts are nevertheless being killed by unknown assassins. Callahan begins to investigate the murders despite the orders of his superior officer, Lieutenant Briggs. A man has to know his limitations...
Written by Bruce Janson <bruce@cs.su.oz.au>
Directly after the scene in the garage where Callahan is threatened by the motorcycle cops, the cycles drove out and every single one of them crashed. Clint Eastwood said, "I've been threatened by the Keystone Kops."
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Goofs
Audio/visual unsynchronized:
As the motorcycle cop is getting ready to attack the pool party, he is seen loading and cocking the submachine gun - the sound is a click-clack of racking the bolt back and forth but the weapon, a Smith & Wesson M76, fires from and open bolt (meaning there'd only be one click, the sound of pulling the bolt back into firing position). As a side note, the blank rounds in the magazine are visible for a brief instant as it's inserted in the gun.
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The credits are played over a hand (presumably Harry's) holding a 44 Magnum against a red background. As such, this is the only Dirty Harry movie in which the opening credits are not played over San Francisco scenery.
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