Tag: Dirty Harry

The Enforcer (2)

I’ve already posted about the Humphrey Bogart film of the same name, but this Enforcer was the third in Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry series. It’s an ok movie, but not a patch on either the original or the first sequel Magnum Force. This was the point at which the Harry movies started to become formulaic…


Dirty Harry

“Do I feel lucky…?” Well, I was very happy to win this one earlier this year at auction.  Dirty Harry is not only one of my fave Clint Eastwood movies its also one of my all-time fave thrillers, period. It spawned 4 sequels, each of which upped the ordance whilst removing any of the moral…


Sudden Impact

Sudden Impact was the point when the Dirty Harry series lost it for me. I love the first two movies in the series, but after 1973’s Magnum Force, the quality of each film dipped and the character of Harry became progressively both more reactionary and all-conquering  – with the  movies differentiated as much by the…


Dirty Harry / Magnum Force

This was the first movie poster I ever bought.  I remember it distinctly as I bought it when Pinewood Film Studios had their first (and as far as I know only) open day back in 1977. I persuaded (ok forced) my mum and dad to take me and we spent the day touring the various sound…