Dirty Harry (1971)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon, John Larch
Producer: Don Siegel
Screenwriter: Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink
Composer: Lalo Schifrin
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Clint Eastwood, in the title role, is a superhero whose antics become almost satire. Strip away the philosophical garbage and all that's left is a well-made but shallow running-and-jumping meller.
A fascist film, or a film about a fascist cop? Either way, this is suspenseful, energetic stuff.
A crisp, beautifully paced film, full of Siegel's wonderful coups of cutting and framing.
No less than Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, it offers a fabulous, multifarious political metaphor. (And, as with Body Snatchers, Siegel's own liberal interpretation was trumped by a more forceful hard-right reading.
An all-time great that keeps getting better with age. Andrew Robinson's Scorpio gets my vote for the most loathsome movie villain ever.
If there aren't mentalities like Dirty Harry's at loose in the land, then the movie is irrelevant. If there are, we should not blame the bearer of the bad news.
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