Rating: R
Genre: Thriller
Release Date: 06/03/2008
SubTitles: English/French/Japanese/Espanol/Por
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol/Japanese/Por
Sound: DD5.1/DD1
Run Time: 102 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Not For Children, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video

"You've got to ask yourself a question: 'do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" Dirty Harry provoked a critical uproar in 1971 for its "fascist" message about the power of one, as it also elevated Clint Eastwood to superstar status through his most enduring screen persona. Harry Callahan (Eastwood, in a role meant for Frank Sinatra) is a sardonic, hard-working San Francisco cop who can't finish his lunch without having to foil a bank robbery with his 44 Magnum, "the most powerful handgun in the world." When hippie-esque psycho Scorpio (Andy Robinson) goes on a killing spree, Harry and new partner Chico (Reni Santoni) are assigned to hunt him down, but not before the Mayor (John Vernon) and Lt. Bressler (Harry Guardino) admonish Callahan about his heavy-handed tactics. Racing against a deadline to save a kidnap victim from suffocating to death and unbothered by the niceties of Miranda rights and search warrants, Callahan brings in Scorpio, only to see him released on technicalities. "The law's crazy," opines Harry in disgust, before taking it upon himself to ensure that Scorpio doesn't kill again. Directed in violent and efficient fashion by Don Siegel, with a propulsive score by Lalo Schifrin, Dirty Harry was the fourth Siegel-Eastwood collaboration after Coogan's Bluff (1968), Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), and The Beguiled (1970). Critics at the time strongly objected to the heroic image of a cop's violations of a suspect's Miranda rights, forcing Siegel and Eastwood to deny that they were right-wing reactionaries. All the same, Dirty Harry proved to be highly popular and spawned four sequels: Magnum Force (1973), The Enforcer (1976), Sudden Impact (1983), and The Dead Pool (1988).

~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan
Harry Guardino - Lt. Bressler
Reni Santoni - Chico Sanchez
John Vernon - Mayor
Andy Robinson - Scorpio
John Larch - Chief

Production:
Don Siegel - Director
Don Siegel - Producer
Lalo Schifrin - Composer
Carl Pingitore - Editor
Harry Julian Fink Rita M. Fink Dean Riesner - Screen Writer
Robert de Vestel - Set Designer
Dale Hennesy - Art Director
Carl Pingitore - Associate Producer
Bruce Surtees - Cinematographer
Glenn Wright - Costume Designer
Robert Daley - Executive Producer
Robert Rubin - First Assistant Director
Gordon Bau - Makeup
Harry Julian Fink - Screen Story
R.M. Fink - Screen Story
William Randall - Sound/Sound Designer

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