Dirty Harry

Dirty Harry is a 1971 American action thriller film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the Dirty Harry series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department SFPD detective Dirty Harry Callahan. The film drew upon the actual case of the Zodiac Killer as the Callahan character seeks out a similar vicious psychopath.

A psychopathic serial killer calling himself Scorpio Andy Robinson murders a young woman in a San Francisco swimming pool, using a highpowered rifle from a nearby rooftop. SFPD Inspector Harry Callahan Clint Eastwood finds a ransom message demanding the city pay him 100,000. Scorpio also promises that for each day that the city refuses his demand, he will commit a murder, and his next victim will be a Catholic priest or a nigger. The chief of police and the mayor John Vernon assign the inspector to the case, though the mayor is reluctant because of an incident involving the shooting by Callahan of a naked man with a butcher knife chasing a woman the previous year in the citys Fillmore District.While in a local diner, Callahan observes a bank robbery in progress and kills two of the robbers he wounds a third Albert Popwell, who ends up on the ground eying a loaded shotgun nearby. Callahan, standing over him, challenges him ........

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