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Dirty Harry [DVD] [1971]
enlarge	Director: Don Siegel Actors: Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon Studio: Warner Home Video Category: DVD List Price: ~~£13.99~~ Buy New: £0.63 as of 24/11/2009 21:15 GMT details You Save: £13.36 (95%) New (43) Used (29) from £0.18 Seller: media_moguls-uk Rating: 20 reviews Sales Rank: 11965 Format: PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Region: 2 Discs: 1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 98 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 7321900215169 ASIN: B00005TNZE Theatrical Release Date: December 23, 1971 Release Date: July 4, 2005 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review Whether or not you can sympathise with its fascistic/vigilante approach to law enforcement, iDirty Harry/i (directed by star Clint Eastwood's longtime friend and directorial mentor, Don Siegel) is one hell of an American cop thriller. The movie makes evocative use of its San Francisco locations as cop Harry Callahan (Eastwood) tracks the elusive "Scorpio killer" who has been terrorising the city by the Bay. As the psychopath's trail grows hotter, Harry becomes increasingly impatient and intolerant of the frustrating obstacles (departmental red tape, individuals' civil rights) that he feels are keeping him from doing his job. A characteristically taut and tense piece of filmmaking from Siegel (iInvasion of the Body Snatchers/i, iThe Shootist/i, iEscape from Alcatraz/i), it also remains a fascinating slice of American pop culture. It was a big hit (followed by four sequels) that obviously reflected--or exploited--the almost obsessive or paranoid fears and frustrations many Americans felt about crime in the streets. At a time when "law and order" was a familiar slogan for political candidates, Harry Callahan may have represented neither, but from his point of view his job was simple: stop criminals. To him that end justified any means he deemed necessary. i--Jim Emerson/i

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 20 1 2 3 4 Next » Easily the best of the Dirty Harry collection February 5, 2002 11 out of 11 found this review helpful You've got to ask yourself, do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk? - This film is just superb, from the excellent camera work showing of the San Francisco location well, to the genius of Lalo Schifrin's soundtrack. For me, Clint Eastwood is not a great actor, but in this role he excels. His character is humourous yet serious, and has a dark side that you just have to take notice of. Andy Robinson is the crazy 'Scorpio' who holds the city at ransom. The plot is far fetched, which is no great surprise, but you're hooked until Scorpio is disposed of. I own this on VHS also, but the DVD is a must for the picture and sound quality. Don't buy the special edition, save yourself some cash and buy the regular version - the extra 30 minute documentary is not worth paying for. But the film is definately worth the money, buy it, watch it and savour it. HUGELY INFLUENTIAL CLINT EASTWOOD THRILLER ! February 2, 2002 7 out of 7 found this review helpful What can I say? DIRTY HARRY is a classic, slick action masterpiece which started off the renegade cop genre. Some may argue that it was THE FRENCH CONNECTION, but DH is a better film, as it's more exciting, humorous and offers more food for thought regarding its protagonist. Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callahan is a San Francisco cop, relentless, bitter, jaded and extremely tough, who never lets anything get in his way when he's hunting criminals. Whether it be shooting a would-be rapist armed with a butcher knife or injuring a murder suspect in order to extract a confession from him, Harry immediately dispenses with the 'niceties' of the law so that he can get results. My favourite scenes of the film are when Harry foils a bank robbery with his awesome .44 Magnum handgun, when he chases mad killer Scorpio to the football ground and the action-packed finale featuring the timeless ' do you feel lucky?' line. I was amazed to find out that John Wayne, Steve McQueen, Bob Mitchum, Frank Sinatra and even Paul Newman were offered the role of Dirty Harry. With the right amount of wit, cynicism and all-out hardness, this is Clint's role. Andy Robinson did a sterling job as well, portraying the twisted psychopathic gunman, dubbed 'Scorpio'. He must be one of THE most imitated bad guys in the history of action thrillers. These days, they don't come any better than this. You lookin' at me punk? October 12, 2003 DL Productions UK (Merseyside, UK) 8 out of 9 found this review helpful In the 70's, movies were getting a bit more violent, and moving towards action rather than the 60s western, where the good guys always won. Don Segal decided to focus on cops that were not prepared to follow the new policing rules, and handled things in their own way. Bring on Inspector Callahan, a no nonsense cop in a crazy world, where drugs, muggings and bank robberies were a daily occurance in San Francisco. Harry wasn't ready to let it all go to hell, he was ready to fight.pThis is the first outing for Harry, and the first few minutes of the movie show us that Harry isn't going to back down or "go soft", just because they mayor wants him to stop pulling out his Magnum 45, a very powerful handgun, and start laying down the law, and bringing the state police a lot of charges to them. So his boss Bresslier has just had enough, and places him with rookie cop Chico Gonzalez, who's more suited to a classroom than to the confinment of police life. The guys are sent out on a mission to arrest a crazed man who's going to kill a child or a black person for $1million, so Harry has to act quick.pThe film follows Harry as he makes his investigations of crimes, like when Scorpio kills a child on the beach, shoots a black man in the middle of a green and the threats he keeps sending them through the San Francisco Cronicle.pGonzarles finds out why Harry's called "Dirty Harry", because he has to do every bad job around, as he gets called to a guy ready to jump. Of course, Harry gets him down, but it's not usual methods he uses.pThe film has great scenes, like when Harry goes up to one of the gunmen after the bank robbery and makes his legendary speech; which makes the man very scared because he's playing Russian Roulette with his life. Harry knows well what's going on, but he likes to use fear to make people do what they have to do. Another example is when he makes it to the football ground and finds Scorpio, and runs to the middle of the field, and threatens to shoot him if he doesn't help him find the little girl. pThe music is excellent in this film, Lalo Schifrin, with his jazzy and funky soundtrack which illustrates the highs and lows. The music compliments the pictures, and brings a certain mood to the picture. The instrumentation is excellent, and the use of strings to bring preasure is just perfect.pThe film also brings in a lot of personal feelings, like when Scorpio uses the media to make him look like the victime, this is quite a new skill used by Don Segal, and was quite revolutionary. Also Harry's attitude is well documented, with his masterpiece scene in the DA's office "What about that girl's rights?" He brought up quite a few things to think about, which is always good in a movie of this genre.pIn conclusion, this film is great, the scenes are well done and well filmed for their time; and the remastering brings a lot of colour to the screen and texture to the soundtrack. Listening to this in 5.1 surround gives it a whole different angle, which is amazing. Also the script is of a high class. If you don't get this, you're missing out on the best cop movie ever made. Clint Eastwood and Andrew Robinson made the movie what it is, great direction from Don Segal. You won't regret this purchase. Eastwood personifies the ultimate gritty mean street cop! June 15, 2001 ndhanjal@hallmarknetworkuk.com (London, UK) 5 out of 6 found this review helpful Don Siegel once again brings out the best in Clint. Dirty Harry remains by far the quint essential detective thriller, even three decades on. Everything about this film is simply superb, right from the incredible music score supplied by the irrepressible Lalo Schifirin, the performance from Clint Eastwood as the brooding maverick no nonsence straight talking homicide cop, even the dialogue is classic, who can forget the immortal line'go on punk, make my day'-not many! Even the villain by the name of scorpio turns in an incredible sinister spine tingling performance. Many films of a similar ilk have tried to model themselves on Dirty Harry, but none have ever equalled or will ever surpass the true genius of this genre breaking 1971 classic. If this movie isnot in your collection-go on make your day, and buy a copy. The Classic Action Movie May 5, 2000 steven.mcguinnity@strath.ac.uk (Glasgow, Scotland) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful This is the classic action movie. There have been so many films that have used scenes from this film, but what makes this film great is that those movies are also classics. Take the ransom scene, it is like a short Die Hard With A Vengeance and the scene where a guy tries to commit suicide bears a striking resemblance to a scene in Lethal Weapon. On top of all of that it's got humor and one of the best know quotes from any film, do you feel lucky punk ... well do ya?. This is all rounded off by great cinematography and a brilliant soundtrack. If you feel like a classic action movie this is for you. Showing reviews 1-5 of 20 1 2 3 4 Next »

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