Dirty Harry
By tracking a serial killer and a crazy man, Harry Callahan tries to find a solution to that highly controversial issue. Harry is set to stop this crazy killer before she dies a kidnapped girl. When arrested, Harry abuses the rights of the civilian killer and decides to release him. After his release, the assassin takes over a school bus and Harry must chase him again to stop him and Harry may need to kill that madman to stop those criminal operations.
6 September 1919, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
5 March 1921, Sacramento, California, USA
27 July 1939, Los Angeles, California, USA
15 July 1926, New York City, New York, USA
8 November 1923, Long Beach, California, USA
13 March 1935, Denver, Colorado, USA
3 September 1926, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
21 April 1939, New York City, New York, USA
26 October 1912, Chicago, Illinois, USA
April 16, 2011
A significant film ideologically, this right-wing revenge crimer catapulted Clint Eastwood to major stardom and launched a whole cycle of films about taking the law into your hands.
September 14, 2010
'70s rebel-cop classic is way too edgy for kids.
April 04, 2006
No less than Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, it offers a fabulous, multifarious political metaphor. (And, as with Body Snatchers, Siegel's own liberal interpretation was trumped by a more forceful hard-right reading.
June 20, 2010
An iconic performance by Clint Eastwood creates a cinematic immortal.
October 23, 2004
If there aren't mentalities like Dirty Harry's at loose in the land, then the movie is irrelevant. If there are, we should not blame the bearer of the bad news.
March 01, 2007
A crisp, beautifully paced film, full of Siegel's wonderful coups of cutting and framing.
May 21, 2003
What makes Dirty Harry worth watching no matter how dumb the story, is Siegel's superb sense of the city, not as a place of moods but as a theater for action.
January 26, 2006
Seminal law-and-order cinema.
October 03, 2010
"Dirty Harry" is still one of the most enjoyable films you could hope to sit down with for a couple of hours.
July 03, 2009
Siegel makes excellent use of San Francisco locations, even if Harry makes a few implausible leaps across town from time to time. The Kezar Stadium showdown in particular is a keeper.
March 01, 2007
Clint Eastwood, in the title role, is a superhero whose antics become almost satire. Strip away the philosophical garbage and all that's left is a well-made but shallow running-and-jumping meller.
July 06, 2010
Don Siegel's action thriller hasn't aged a single day since its release...
