Dirty Harry
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| Taglines: | 1: Clint Eastwood is “Dirty Harry.” And boy, does he get all the dirty jobs. 2: Detective Harry Callahan. He doesn’t break murder cases. He smashes them. 3: do you feel lucky punk? 4: With his .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, Dirty Harry wipes out crime to hell. 5: You don’t assign him to murder cases, You just turn him loose. |
| Plot Summary: | The debut of SFPD Inspector Harry Callahan begins with a sociopathic rooftop sniper (Andrew Robinson of ‘Cobra’ and ‘Hellraiser’) killing a young woman in a pool, and then trying to extort $100,000 from the City. Harry is asked by his boss, Lt. Bressler (Harry Guardino) and the Mayor (John Vernon) to put a stop to this low-life. While Harry & his new partner, Chico (Reni Santori of ‘Cobra’) investigate, another murder occurs, followed by a kidnapping/rape of a young girl, and a subsequent attempt at extortion by the killer, who calls himself ‘Scorpio’. Harry volunteers to deliver the ransom but is nearly killed by Scorpio, who is wounded & driven off by Chico and Harry. Harry follows the suspect’s trail to Kezar Stadium, where he discovers the murder weapon and the suspect! The man is arrested and Harry gets the girl’s location out of him. Unbeknownst to Harry, the girl is dead already, and the next morning Harry visits the D.A. to find out that the man is being freed - because of a bleeding-heart legal system and judiciary that says Harry’s search was ‘illegal’, although there was no time - and no judge - to get a warrant from. On his release, Scorpio is up to his old tricks - this time he kidnaps a bus-load of children and demands a ransom. The Mayor foolishly goes along with Scorpio’s game and orders Harry not to stop the killer. Disgusted with the weak-kneed attitude of the Mayor & his colleagues in the legal system, Harry intercepts the bus and takes on Scorpio himself to put an end to the kidnapping and the psychopath’s reign of terror…for good. |
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