Detective Harry Callahan. He doesn’t break murder cases. He smashes them. Clint Eastwood stars in Don Siegel’s blockbuster crime thriller Dirty Harry as a tough, no-nonsense, 44 Magnum-packing cop out to stop the psychopathic Scorpio Killer terrorizing the streets of San Francisco. Eastwood would return to the role for four more films in the franchise to dispense his own brand of law and order. “You’ve gotta ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?”
“Dirty Harry is very effective at the level of a thriller. At another level, it uses the most potent star presence in American movies – Clint Eastwood – to lay things on the line.” – Roger Ebert
