Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan reluctantly teams up with rookie Inspector Kate Moore to foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans.Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan reluctantly teams up with rookie Inspector Kate Moore to foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans.Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan reluctantly teams up with rookie Inspector Kate Moore to foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Harry meets Uhuru leader, Mustapha (Albert Popwell), he asks "Where do I know you from?" Popwell played a bank robber in Dirty Harry (1971), a pimp in Magnum Force (1973), and Horace in Sudden Impact (1983). He didn't appear in The Dead Pool (1988).
- GoofsThe U.S. Army sergeant demonstrating the M72 Light Anti-Tank Weapon stated that the projectile can penetrate armor plating up to 3/4 of an inch. M72 warheads, in real life, can penetrate up to five inches of armor plating.
- Quotes
[Callaghan learns he is being transferred to Personnel]
Harry Callahan: Personnel? That's for assholes!
Capt McKay: I was in Personnel for ten years.
Harry Callahan: Yeah.
- Alternate versionsHarry Callahan's character name becomes Harry ''Callaghan'' in the Italian version and titles because the local distributor thought it sounded better.
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Marvellous.
There's a definite drop in quality between 'The Enforcer (1976)' and the previous in its series, with a general lack of deeper themes cementing it as a distinctly on-the-surface affair. Having said that, though, it's still an entertaining detective-drama that makes the most out of its squinting star and his huge cannon. The major hook of the piece is that Harry has to work with a female partner, brought into the fray by the mayor's attempts to reduce (but not remove) the disparity between sexes in the SFPD. Being a 1970s movie, its gender politics are, naturally, somewhat retrograde. Thankfully, though, the piece ultimately lands on the right message - even if it stumbles a lot in the process. It does posit that 'stylish' hiring quotas are a negative thing but, again, it is a 1970s movie. The narrative is fairly generic, but it does pull off a couple of tropes surprisingly well. It has several exciting action scenes and is typically enjoyable. In the end, it's better than the sum of its parts. 7/10
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- Also known as
- Dirty Harry III
- Filming locations
- Fort Baker, California, USA(the Army demonstration of the LAW rocket)
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- Budget
- $9,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $46,236,000
- Gross worldwide
- $46,236,000
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