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Dirty Harry

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Dirty Harry is a 1971 American action thriller film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first film in the Dirty Harry series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role in his first appearance as San Francisco Police Department Inspector Harry Callahan, a character whose pursuit of a vicious psychopath drew on the real life case of the Zodiac Killer. The film was a critical and commercial success that set the style for a whole genre of police films, and was followed by four sequels, Magnum Force in 1973, The Enforcer in 1976, Sudden Impact in 1983, and The Dead Pool in 1988. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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English 1
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National Film Registry 2
Release Year
1971 1
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1. Dirty Harry (Wikipedia)
  • Dirty Harry, Description, original language
    Dirty Harry is a 1971 American action thriller film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first film in the Dirty Harry series.
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    December 23, 1971
  • In Medium: Film, Article lead sentence
    Dirty Harry is a 1971 American action-thriller film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the Dirty Harry series.
  • Created By: Don Siegel, Infobox: director
    Don Siegel
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2. Library of Congress, National Film Preservation Board: Complete National Film Registry Listing
Library of Congress, National Film Preservation BoardNational Film Registry listing row: film released 1971, inducted 2012
Quote, National Film Registry listing row: film released 1971, inducted 2012
Dirty Harry 1971 2012
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