| STARRING: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino & John Vernon
Whether or not you can sympathise with its fascistic/vigilante approach to law enforcement, Dirty Harry (directed by star Clint Eastwood's longtime friend and directorial mentor, Don Siegel) is one hell of an American cop thriller. The movie makes evocative use of its San Francisco locations as cop Harry Callahan (Eastwood) tracks the elusive "Scorpio killer" who has been terrorising the city by the Bay. As the psychopath's trail grows hotter, Harry becomes increasingly impatient and intolerant of the frustrating obstacles (departmental red tape, individuals' civil rights) that he feels are keeping him from doing his job. A characteristically taut and tense piece of filmmaking from Siegel (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Shootist, Escape from Alcatraz), it also remains a fascinating slice of American pop culture. It was a big hit (followed by four sequels) that obviously reflected--or exploited--the almost obsessive or paranoid fears and frustrations many Americans felt about crime in the streets. At a time when "law and order" was a familiar slogan for political candidates, Harry Callahan may have represented neither, but from his point of view his job was simple: stop criminals. To him that end justified any means he deemed necessary.
Region: 2 - Europe (PAL), Japan (NTSC), South Africa, Middle East Rating: 18 Year: 1971 Duration: 99 minutes Label: Warner Bros. Ratio: Widescreen Cast: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, John Vernon, John Larch, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson, John Mitchum & Woodrow Parfrey
Language: English, French, Italian Subtitles: English, French, Dutch, Italian, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Romanian, Bulgarian, - English and Italian for the hearing impaired |
