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Clint stars as Harry Callahan, a truculent San Francisco police detective well known for his vicious take-no-prisoners attitude toward criminals. With the city of San Francisco being terrorized by the psychotic killer known only as Scorpio (a character that is firmly based on San Francisco's Zodiac Killer), Harry is assigned by the mayor (John Vernon) and Lt. Bressler to try to stop him, pairing him with reluctantly accepted new partner Chico. Scorpio kidnaps a 14-year-old girl and buries her alive, demanding a $200,000 ransom for her return. Harry is to bring him the money. Alone.

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ProducerDon Siegel

EAN7321900115247

eBay Product ID (ePID)65605808

Product Key Features

ActorHarry Guardino, John Vernon, Albert Popwell, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson, Clint Eastwood

Film/TV TitleDirty Harry

DirectorDon Siegel

LanguageEnglish

Subtitle LanguageDanish\Dutch\English\Finnish\French\German\Italian\Norwegian\Portuguese\Spanish\Swedish

Run Time98 Mins

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

FormatBlu-ray

Release Year2008

FeaturesWidescreen, With Subtitles

FranchiseDirty Harry

GenreGeneral, Action & Adventure

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate18

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ComposerLalo Schifrin

Additional InformationA tremendously controversial film, both decried as an apologia for fascism and hailed as the solution to a decade of rising crime, DIRTY HARRY propelled Clint Eastwood's career into the stratosphere while adding another archetype to join his Man with No Name in film iconography. Clint stars as Harry Callahan, a truculent San Francisco police detective well known for his vicious take-no-prisoners attitude toward criminals. With the city of San Francisco being terrorized by the psychotic killer known only as Scorpio (a character that is firmly based on San Francisco's Zodiac Killer), Harry is assigned by the mayor (John Vernon) and Lt. Bressler (Harry Guardino) to try to stop him, pairing him with reluctantly accepted new partner Chico (Reni Santoni). Scorpio kidnaps a 14-year-old girl and buries her alive, demanding a $200,000 ransom for her return. Harry is to bring him the money--alone. What follows is one of the most exciting ransom deliveries in film history. The prototype for most of the action films through the rest of the century, DIRTY HARRY rises far above most of them due mostly to an excellent script and Eastwood's gripping acting. That said, the main character's contemptuous attitude toward the Miranda law seems far more damning now that it did in the early 1970s. Callahan's exploits proved extremely popular and the inevitable sequel, MAGNUM FORCE was released two years later, and in turn was followed by a further three sequels, THE ENFORCER (1976), SUDDEN IMPACT (1983) and THE DEAD POOL (1989). Though the sequels are of varying quality, none diminish the importance of the original, which is now considered a classic.

ScreenwriterRita M. Fink, Harry Julian Fink

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleDirty Harry

Director of PhotographyBruce Surtees

Consumer AdviceContains strong violence and language