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Film · 1971 · Crime thriller
Dirty Harry
Directed by Don Siegel
1971
★ 6.4 editorial score
Pauline Kael called it fascist and the argument has never really ended: Eastwood's inspector chases a Zodiac-like killer through San Francisco with a .44 Magnum and open contempt for procedure.
“Dirty Harry introduced the figure of the Legal Vigilante that would prove so useful to Richard Nixon in the upcoming election year. Dirty Harry was a dirty man for a dirty time—an authority figure who hated authority. More than the original anti-Miranda, anti–Great Society cop film, Dirty Harry was Easy Rider in reverse, featuring a hippie as serial killer rather than victim.”
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