Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop them.
- uniform
- san francisco
- california
- arbitrary law
- investigation
- inspector
- sequel
- vigilante
- bad cop
- police corruption
- police vigilantism
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Clint Eastwood
Insp. Harry Callahan
Hal Holbrook
Lieutenant Briggs
Mitchell Ryan
Officer Charlie McCoy
David Soul
Officer John Davis
- Felton Perry — Insp. Early Smith
- Robert Urich — Officer Mike Grimes
- Kip Niven — Officer Alan "Red" Astrachan
- Tim Matheson — Officer Phil Sweet
- Christine White — Carol McCoy
- Adele Yoshioka — Sunny
- Richard Devon — Carmine Ricca
- Tony Giorgio — Frank Palancio
- Albert Popwell — J. J. Sidney Wilson
- John Mitchum — Frank DiGiorgio
- Margaret Avery — Prostitute
- Directed
- Ted Post
- Written
- Michael Cimino, John Milius
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 1,245 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures, Malpaso Productions
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1971Dirty Harry
Where it starts.
Magnum Force
1973 · You’re here
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.
