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Dirty Harry

Genre
Action
Rating
R
Released
23 December, 1971
Dirty Harry

Dirty Harry is a 1971 American neo-noir action-thriller film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the Dirty Harry series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan. The film drew upon the real life case of the Zodiac Killer as the Callahan character seeks out a similar vicious psychopath. Dirty Harry was a critical and commercial success and set the style for a whole genre of police films. It was followed by four sequels: Magnum Force in 1973, The Enforcer in 1976, Sudden Impact in 1983, and The Dead Pool in 1988. In 2012, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant."

Réalisateur Don Siegel
Produced by Don Siegel
Screenplay by Harry Julian Fink, R.M. Fink, Dean Riesner, Uncredited, John Milius, Terrence Malick
Story by Harry Julian Fink, R.M. Fink, Jo Heims
Starring Clint Eastwood, Andy Robinson, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon
Music Lalo Schifrin
Cinematography Bruce Surtees
Edited by Carl Pingitore
Production, company The Malpaso Company
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Released December 23, 1971
Running time 102 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $4 million
Box office $36 million
Netflix ID 445522

À propos de Dirty Harry

Crime movie that features Clint Eastwood in the title role as a San Francisco cop hunting down a psychopathic killer. The film's success led to four sequels, beginning with Magnum Force in 1973.

Réalisation de Dirty Harry

The killer in the film is based off of the real life Zodiac Killer, who commit a series of murders in northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. 

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