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Dirty Harry

1971

Don Siegel

Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon ...

7.2

59,466

Thriller. Action Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is 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 (Andrew Robinson), 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).

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"A very good example of the cops-and-killers genre, and Siegel proves once again that he understands the Eastwood mystique (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Variety	"Strip away the philosophical garbage and all that's left is a well-made but shallow running-and-jumping meller"	NEG
United Kingdom	Mark Dinning Empire	"While Eastwood delivers a virtuoso performance (...) Robinson steals a fair share of his thunder, turning in a display of visceral intensity (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"A crisp, beautifully paced film, full of Siegel's wonderful coups of cutting and framing."	POS
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"As far as ’70s films go, it stands in the company of the greats (...) for shifting the whole cop-killer mode into a vein of barely hinged horror."	POS
United Kingdom	Alan Jones Radio Times	"Directed by Don Siegel with his usual toughness and crisp efficiency, this is a masterpiece of action movie-making (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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