102 mins |
Rated
R16
Directed by Don Siegel
Starring John Larch, Reni Santoni, John Vernon, Harry Guardino, Andy Robinson, Clint Eastwood
Screening as part of Academy's BAD BOYS OF THE 70s Film Festival, April 26th - May 11th. With DIRTY HARRY, the spotlight is on Clint Eastwood.
Clint Eastwood stars as Dirty Harry Callahan, a no-holds-barred San Francisco cop in this action thriller that began an action franchise.
Harry doesn’t break murder cases – he smashes them.
When he is assigned to pay extortion money to a serial murderer, the payoff goes wrong. Now with the life of a 14-year-old girl at stake, Callahan refuses to allow anything–including the law–to keep him from stopping the killer.
The film created something of a critical furore on its release, the controversy hinging on the extent to which audiences were encouraged to identify with Harry's seeming advocation of vigilante justice.
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Screening as part of Academy's BAD BOYS OF THE 70s Film Festival, April 26th - May 11th. With DIRTY HARRY, the spotlight is on Clint Eastwood.
Clint Eastwood stars as Dirty Harry Callahan, a no-holds-barred San Francisco cop in this action thriller that began an action franchise.
Harry doesn’t break murder cases – he smashes them.
When he is assigned to pay extortion money to a serial murderer, the payoff goes wrong. Now with the life of a 14-year-old girl at stake, Callahan refuses to allow anything–including the law–to keep him from stopping the killer.
The film created something of a critical furore on its release, the controversy hinging on the extent to which audiences were encouraged to identify with Harry's seeming advocation of vigilante justice.