The best films are about things you couldn’t do in real life or things you shouldn’t do in real life. Films about things you could do… yeah, not that bothered. Dirty Harry is mostly a ‘shouldn’t do’ film, by the way.

DIRTY HARRY

Don Siegel

1971

Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson, John Vernon

Screenplay by Harry Julian Fink, R. M. Fink and Dean Riesner; story by Harry Julian Fink and R. M. Fink

Title: DIRTY HARRY

Year: 1971

Director: Don Siegel

Cast: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson, John Vernon

Writing: Screenplay by Harry Julian Fink, R. M. Fink and Dean Riesner; story by Harry Julian Fink and R. M. Fink

Genre tags: CRIME, THRILLER