It is 1971. The first baseball game was played in Philadelphia’s Veterans Stadium. The voting age was lowered to 18. Cigarette advertisements were banned on television. And the hardened detective Harry Callahan is sent on a mission to stop a sniper that is terrorizing the city of San Francisco in “Dirty Harry.” Directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood as Detective Harry Callahan, “Dirty Harry” turns plenty of action into a thrilling plot. Although the story can be confusing at times, the action that takes place throughout the city of San Francisco is enough to keep all action fans on the edge of their seats. Along with Eastwood, “Dirty Harry” also stars, Andrew Robinson and Harry Guardino.
The story begins with the audience witnessing a young girl swimming in a pool through the sniper scope of the sadistic murderer Scorpio. He soon puts a bullet right through her heart killing her instantly. Word gets out and the city is terrified. Detective “Dirty” Harry Callahan (Eastwood) finds a ransom note from Scorpio (Robinson) that demands $100,000 and for each day that the city does not accept his demand, he will kill a specific person. Next we see one of the more iconic scenes and quotes in Hollywood history. Dirty Harry, who gets his name by his coworkers for his loose cannon style of police work, is eating lunch in a diner when he notices a bank robbery in progress. As the men run out of the bank he swiftly kills two of the men and wounds the third. As he walks over to the third man, he leaves the audience with one of the most famous action movie quotes: “I know what you’re thinking: Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?” As we see throughout the movie, Dirty Harry is constantly stopping criminals and wiping clean the streets of San Francisco all while chasing the elusive killer, Scorpio. Soon it is made known that Scorpio has kidnapped a young girl and is expecting double the amount of ransom money this time around, $200,000. Callahan is instructed to bring no back up and has to answer payphones in order to meet up with the killer and deliver the ransom. Arriving at the scene Callahan is eventually brutally beaten by Scorpio and the killer escapes wounded. Callahan follows the maniac to a nearby football field and tortures him to get the answers out of him, but due to the mishandling of the case, Scorpio has to be set free. This angers Callahan and he vows to get this psychotic murderer once and for all. Later in the film we witness Scorpio apprehend a bus full of school children, and once hearing word of this, Callahan knows that this is his chance to end this madman’s rampage once and for all. “Dirty Harry” offers a much grittier side to the crime and police movies that were popular during this time, one that is meant purely for lovers of action movies. The film is an incredible thriller, keeping viewers on the edge of their seats, wondering how Callahan is possibly going to stop this crazed killer. “Dirty Harry” is certainly one of the best crime and detective thrillers from the past century. If you want to write exciting movie reviews, use free Essay Writing software that helps writers and students with writing and editing.
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