Dirty Harry Collection (Box Set) (DVD)

harj123 03.09.2004
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...pay it may not, it’s Dirty Harry’s call. When this film was released it caused quite a stir, critics called it reckless, and do-gooders saw it as the moral downfall of society. They were probably right, they didn’t like what they saw because it told the truth about society. No filmmaker had dared to be so liberal about civil disobedience, Don Seigel the Director used rapid fire editing and Eastwood’s 6.4” (6.6” ...
...film all playing the outspoken Dirty Harry, most of them are moody affairs and starring his ex-wife Sandra Locke. Clint often seems to have a desire to get beaten up, abused or trodden on before he always comes up the victor. This theme is often seen in his Westerns. I suppose the underlying message tells us. To get stronger you have to sink as low as you can take and then like a repaired broken bone, rise up stronger than before and capable of withstanding ...

gideon 26.02.2001 · Read full review
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...film in the series was Dirty Harry which established the character and created a market into which Magnum Force, The Enforcer and Sudden Impact was fed. The film was set around the pursuit and ultimate capture of a crazed Sniper called Scorpio played with suitable wild-eyed madness by Andy Robinson. As we see Callaghan pursue him we see Callaghans personality develop as almost as pathologically criminal as those he pursues. The difference being ...
...was dedicated in tribute to the police officers of San Francisco who had fallen in the line of duty. Dirty Harry is an excellent film but whether it is a fitting memorial is debatable. An end to the cycle of violence is always the best memorial not ratchetting it up. ...

polydeuces 13.10.2001 · Read full review
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...The same is true of Dirty Harry. Most people know the name and for many years I knew the name but hadn't the faintest idea about the film itself. Yes I knew that it was Clint Eastwood and that he was a tough cop but what else? Erm, don't know sir. With a crazed killer holding the city of San Francisco to ransom, the police department appear to be helpless. The killer, Scorpio, is demanding $100,000 else he'll start killing yet more people and although ...
...Spawning a hundred catch phrases, Dirty Harry is one of the turning points in cinema. I don't mean in terms of being revolutionary, or challenging the staid conventions of Hollywood, but rather that it ushered in the gritty violent cop pictures of the 70's. So all you liberal do-gooders out there should point your finger in this direction - here's your culprit. Dirty Harry is unlike any cop film before it with the possible exception of Coogan's ...

TheNeil 11.04.2002 · Read full review
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...its age and dated looks Dirty Harry is probably one of the best cop movies to come out of Hollywood. It spawned a host of variations on a theme, even though some would argue DH took a few ideas from the 1968 Bullitt. The idea of a cop trying to bring criminals to book, but using tactics otherwise outside the law, was quite a novel idea back then and was probably an indictment of how the crimewave in some parts of the States had spiralled during ...
...the criminals he challenges in Dirty Harry, and even though he has the law on his side, its often not enough. Siegal's direction and the script never lets up for a minute coupled with a very good musical score. But the best part is of course the stand-off at the end. What Eastwood does with his badge is perhaps one of the great pieces of symbolism in movie history and probably had a million liberals up in arms! The less said about the sequels the ...

dreamstar70 29.01.2001 · Read full review
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...Perhaps neither. Eastwood arrives as Dirty Harry with a bang after the likes of the spaghetti westerns and 'Coogan's Bluff'. The San Francisco of the late 1960’s and early 70’s was known for its liberal attitudes and Eastwood’s character has often been seen as a counterblast to this. Noticeably, the main villain of the piece (who incidentally had a hard time finding work after this film having been typecast as a psycho) wears an ...
...point (at least in the Dirty Harry series) of having a ‘minority’ sidekick. Callahan does find the system too restrictive in the exercise of police powers and too liberal in the application of rights to actual and suspected criminals. To that end he decides to take on the criminal in his own way, deciding that he must act outside the confines of that which actually makes him an upholder of the law. You could say it is an exposition of ...

oclumhain 13.04.2001 · Read full review
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