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| ACTORS: | Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 23 December, 1971 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Action, Action / Adventure, Action Thriller, Adventure, Color, Crime, Disturbing, English, Feature, Feature Film Action Adventure, Feature Film-action/Adventure, Fighting the System, Forceful, Gritty, Harsh, High Historical Importance, Lone Wolves, Moody, Movie, Murder Investigations |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 085392151622 |
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Customer Reviews of Dirty Harry
Wow Plenty of people here have summarized what the film is about, so I won't. I'll try to add something original to the mix, so forgive me if I don't confine myself to describing the film's plot. The popularity of this film cannot be explained without a wider understanding of cultural conditions and sentiments at the time of its release. Dirty Harry, like Death Wish, was a bombshell, as it gave voice to how hundreds of thousands of people were feeling, sentiments people felt and may not have publicly expressed for fear of backlash from the PC movement. In a few sentences, the cultural circumstance referred to was a growing discontent with what was growingly considered to be misguided attempts to solve society's "problems." In the sixties the government gave itself the responsibility to "fix" many problems, from teenage pregnancy to poverty to drug use to discrimination to crime, with social "programs," judicial activism and new legislation. Ironically, ALL of these problems were already rapidly decreasing in the early sixties. Crime was HALF what it was in 1930, even if you don't control for the increase in the population!! Poverty was lessening each and every year. What happened after the social programs of the late sixties and the generation of the welfare state? Well, the crime rate literally exploded. So did teenage pregnancy. Poverty quadrupled. Another thing that happened was the rewriting of law to lessen the punishment of criminals to the result that even the criminals that were arrested and successfully prosecuted often ended right back out on the street in a matter of months to commit even more crimes. People were sick and tired of this crap. Some filmmakers new it, and tapped into this sentiment with wildly popular films like Death Wish, The Stone Killer, and Dirty Harry. An entire genre of "vendetta/revenge/let's take out the human garbage" films was born. Whatever happened to America's real roots, the cowboy? Well here he is, in 1970s San Fran. Harry Callihan is more than a character, he's a representation of a return to common sense, of someone flipping the bird to the higher than thou premption of common sense by lofty third party surrogate policy makers. He is the symbol of a public outcry to give me a break and cut the high minded BS.
AN ICON IS BORN OR IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED HARRY!
The 70's were a fun time! Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aerosmith and Kiss were born, they weren't censoring are beloved cartoons we grew up with and you could say something and it didn't offend some group of individuals. It also gave us a very important icon Dirty Harry! This self titled film is the first in a series of 5 films. One of the best pictures of it's kind. Clint is money baby as Harry, also Andy Robinson is to be commended for the terrific and convincing job he did as the Scorpion Killer! I believed this guy was a real sick cat! This is the one that started it all and should not be missed. The DVD transfer looked very good and there are some extra goodies on the disc. This ones for you CB! ;-)
One of the 70's best
In terms of acting this is perhaps the role that defined Clint Eastwood as a movie icon. The reasons for this are threefold:
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>1. Its directed by Don Siegel, so not a shot is wasted (a big influence on Clint Eastwoods later directing career).
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>2. The screenplay gives Eastwood the chance to deliver some classic lines.
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>3. The rest of the cast are excellent. Particularly John Vernon as The Mayor and the exceptional Andrew Robinson as Scorpio.
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>Of course Eastwood himself should be given as much credit as anyone. He wasn't the first choice for the movie, but if somebodyelse had taken the leading role it wouldn't have had the same impact. Eastwood's huge screen presence, and caustic delivery of his lines is unmatched in cinema history. I'm not saying he's the greatest actor, he is good though, but what he lacks in pure acting ability he more than makes up for in these other qualities.
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>It would be amazing if you haven't seen this film, but if you are of the generation born after this was made and have somehow missed it I recommend buying the DVD without delay. For those that have seen it many many times (like me) it holds up to repeated viewings so its still worth buying, to see it in widescreen with 5.1 sound.
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