| Dirty Harry | |
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 Theatrical release poster by Bill Gold | |
| Directed by | Don Siegel |
| Screenplay by | |
| Story by |
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| Produced by | Don Siegel |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Bruce Surtees |
| Edited by | Carl Pingitore |
| Music by | Lalo Schifrin |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4 million |
| Box office | $36 million[1] |
Dirty Harry is a 1971 American neo-noir action thriller film[2] produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the Dirty Harry series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first appearance as San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan. The film drew upon the real-life case of the Zodiac Killer as the Callahan character seeks out a similar vicious psychopath.[3]
Dirty Harry was a critical and commercial success and set the style for a whole genre of police films. It was followed by four sequels: Magnum Force in 1973, The Enforcer in 1976, Sudden Impact in 1983, and The Dead Pool in 1988.
In 2012, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant".[4][5][6]
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- ^ Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; eds. (1992). Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd ed.). Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-479-5.
- ^ Jenkins, John Philip. "Zodiac Killer". Encyclopædia Britannica at Britannica.com. Retrieved May 6, 2015.
- ^ "'Dirty Harry' Among Films Enshrined in National Film Registry". The Hollywood Reporter. December 19, 2012. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
- ^ "2012 National Film Registry Picks in A League of Their Own". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
- ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved June 5, 2020.