Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.
- sniper
- police
- ambush
- chase
- ransom
- san francisco
- california
- kidnapping
- psychopath
- detective
- mayor
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Andrew Robinson — Killer
- John Larch — Chief
- John Mitchum — De Georgio
- Mae Mercer — Mrs. Russell
- Lyn Edgington — Norma
- Ruth Kobart — Bus Driver
- Woodrow Parfrey — Mr. Jaffe
- Josef Sommer — Rothko
- William Paterson — Bannerman
- James Nolan — Liquor Proprietor
- Maurice Argent — Sid Kleinman
- Directed
- Don Siegel
- Written
- Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink, Dean Riesner
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 2,831 ratings
- Studio
- Malpaso Productions
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1971 · You’re hereDirty Harry
Where it starts.
Magnum Force
1973
The Enforcer
1976
Sudden Impact
1983
The Dead Pool
1988
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
