Driving by her deep will of avenging her rape, a young courageous girl from Francisco, who has been raped by a cruel gang, begins to kill them one by one, the thing that leads inspector Harry Callahan to investigate on the case.
This is the first entry in the series to have been directed by Eastwood himself, and action is put over with great force, if also with some obviousness.
To all those cowboy movies we saw in our youth, all those TV Westerns and cop dramas and war movies, Dirty Harry has brought a great simplification: A big man, a big gun, a bad guy and instant justice.
By my count, more than a dozen people are murdered on camera, about half by Miss Locke and most of the others by Mr. Eastwood. This gives them something in common as lovers.
Nolan's Pop Culture Review
March 15, 2008
Sadly, Clint was still sleeping with Sandra Locke and giving her work! The worse of the "Dirty Harry" films...didn't "make my day"
Cinema Crazed
August 20, 2012
At times like a traffic jam of different stories and characters crossing paths back and forth for almost two hours, and there isn't too much tension to go with it.
