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Dirty Harry - Special Edition [DVD] [1971]
enlarge	Director: Don Siegel Actors: Clint Eastwood, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson, John Vernon, Albert Popwell Studio: Warner Home Video Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy New: £4.67 as of 23/11/2009 15:36 GMT details You Save: £11.32 (71%) New (15) Used (5) from £3.96 Seller: direct_offers_uk Rating: 4 reviews Sales Rank: 10453 Format: Box set, PAL, Special Edition Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 2 Running Time: 98 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 7321902148274 ASIN: B0012YG7U0 Theatrical Release Date: 1971 Release Date: June 9, 2008 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Maverick Cool March 20, 2009 G. R. Donaldson (Great Britain) 2 out of 4 found this review helpful Clint Eastwood has long been a favourite of mine his unique screen presence especially as no nonsense Harry Callaghan is the stuff film icons are made of. In Dirty Harry which in my opinion defined the maverick cop genre we see him strolling around dispensing justice with a firm but perhaps not always even hand. br /I was ony a nipper when I first saw this and having watched it recently as an out of shape forty six year old, its still a cracking film and a worthy addition to any collection. Directed by his mentor, the late Don Segal it shows shots and angles that Eastwood went on to replicate in his own films. Dirty Harry also has one of the best screen villains ever. The man in question Andrew Robinson is Scorpio the drooling madman holding the city to ransom, and only one man can stop him, big Clint. There are to many memorable scenes to mention here, some funny some harrowing. I think this is a total classic and Im of to buy Magnum Force to add to my Callaghan collection. Very big thumbs up. Top dog movie November 12, 2008 Mr W (Manchester, England) 1 out of 3 found this review helpful This is a top thriller and a great DVD release. The extras are pretty good and a lot of the scenes look a lot clearer. A good job and recommended. Dirty Harry - Special Edition October 29, 2008 Mr. J. Fraser (Kelso, Scotland) 1 out of 2 found this review helpful This is a great movie. You don't need me to tell you that. This is a great release except for one issue. Half of this film takes place at night and unfortunately the night scenes are far too dark, often making it difficult to tell what's going on. It's almost like staring at a black screen for half the film. This could have been sorted but it's not. Other than that it's a fairly clean transfer. Clean break July 10, 2009 Ramsey Tupper RIP (R(3,3,3) = 17, of course...) 0 out of 16 found this review helpful Clint Eastwood has, over the years, quite cleverly hidden a speech impediment that hampered his early forays into acting. His technique is based on an old French teaching about the linguistic problems experienced by some people, such as Jonathan Ross. Both Clint and Jonathan have difficulty pronouncing the letter 'w'. br / br /Whereas Rossy just dives on in and has made it a feature of his persona, Clint has used the Fleuron approach where the letter is pretty much negated and often not pronounced at all. In 'Dirty Harry', his line about feeling lucky, to the punk, he says, '...to tell you the tooth...', note 'tooth', not 'truth'. To most ears this sounds acceptable and normal but in all of Clints films, use of 'w' words is kept to a strict minimum. br / br /The music in this film is also quite grating, possibly to cover for the woeful dialogue. A chap called Lilo Shafter did the music, and from scant listening it sounds like music from a skin flick from the same era. All in all I cannot see one good thing to recommend this excellent film to others to miss it. br / br /The story is entertaining, the acting is bad, the special effects are terrible, editing and lighting is adequate given the equipment used but unforgivable in this day and age of DVD's and MP3's. All in all, I would give this film 3 stars, minus two for the reasons above, plus 3 for Clints acting, minus 2 for the title, add three for the music, take one for the bloke out of Hellraiser being in it and finally minus 2 for the use of the Fleuron approach to the 23rd, and sacred, letter. br / br /Ramsey Tupper - (c) 2006 - Re-hashed by Mr Bus

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