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Overview

User Rating:
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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

NewsDesk:
(100 articles)

Sarkozy Honours Eastwood With Top French Honour
 (From WENN. 13 November 2009, 5:36 PM, PST)

AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes
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Excellent! 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) | Peru:18 | Argentina: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:

According to the original script, the phrase that Dirty Harry quotes during both the bank robbery and his final confrontation with Scorpio was not the actual quote for the movie, the actual quote in the script was, "Well? Was it five or was it six? Regulations say five...hammer down on an empty...only not all of us go by the book. What you have to do is think about it. I mean, this is a .44 Magnum and it'll turn your head into hash. Now, do you think I fired five or six? And if five, do I keep a live one under the hammer? It's all up to you. Are you feeling lucky, punk?" more

Goofs:

Continuity: The school bus Scorpio hijacks and takes out of the city has a bare roof. But when they arrive at the underpass where Callahan is waiting, there is a large roof rack on the bus for him to jump onto. more

Quotes:

[first lines]
Harry Callahan: Jesus.
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Movie Connections:

Referenced in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (2005) (VG) more


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25 out of 39 people found the following comment useful.
Excellent!, 29 November 2004
10/10
Author: Morfeus Ivanovich from Riga, Latvia

This movie might appear simple, plain, predictable or even childish to some fan art movie fans, but for me it's a true force! What it may lack in plot, it gains in superb acting, directing, script ("The most powerful handgun in the world" line is just unforgettable, it's instant classic), and some decent social and philosophical ideas. It gives us a perspective on the way of maintaining order in the society which gradually decays at the astronomic speed. In 70s, it might have been an artistic impression, now it's close to reality. This is truly the best part ever played by Clint Eastwood, and agruably one of the best and most stylish action movies ever. I give it 9/10.

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