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Dirty Harry
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Scores
- IMDb7.7/10as of 2026-02-20
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer89%as of 2024-08-02
- Rotten Tomatoes average7.7/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic87/100as of 2025-07-14
What it is
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 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.
At a glance
- Genres
- Crime / Thriller / Action
- Original language
- English
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