Clint Eastwood - Cop (Dirty Harry / Magnum Force / Tightrope)

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It's "Classic Clint!!!!!" Enough said!.......2007-07-01

The movies sell themselves. However, they are not the first in the "Dirty Harry" series I was trying to find as a set. It was as close as I could come to it. I had a hard time finding these the way it was. I'll have to purchase "Sudden Impact" seperately.
This was also the best price I could find on the web from a reputable source. Fast delivery. Very Satisfied.

Thanks Amazon!!!!!!

A good deal.......2007-04-23

When you figure that all these movies go for about 13-15 dollars each elsewhere, it's a good deal. Individually, the choice of movies is odd. While the first two Dirty Harry movies are the better of the series, and entertaining, the psychological horror of tightrope almost feels misplaced. Perhaps Dirty Harry, tightrope, and another non-dirty harry copy movie would have been better. Regardless, the movies themselves are all good, and worthy of purchase.

Clint Eastwood-Dirty Harry.......2007-02-20

If you are a "Dirty Harry" fan this set is a must. wonderful. I wish more of the movies were on DVD.

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THE WEAKEST OF THE DIRTY HARRY FILMS, BUT STILL WORTH SEEING!
Is The Title Right?
Magnum Finale
Average Eastwood
Last good Eastwood / Dirty Harry / Clint cop flick of his career (really 3.5 stars on a mormal 4 star scale)

The Dead Pool
Starring: Clint Eastwood , Patricia Clarkson , Liam Neeson , Evan C. Kim , and David Hunt
Director: Buddy Van Horn
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ASIN: B00005NTNL
Release Date: 2001-11-20

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After the drudgery of Sudden Impact, the fourth and worst sequel to Dirty Harry, no one could have expected the fifth to have any signs of life. But The Dead Pool is fairly inspired, even playful--check out a "chase" scene between Clint Eastwood's Harry Callahan character and a remote-controlled toy car wielding a bomb--and it ended the long-running series on an unexpectedly positive note. This time, Callahan investigates a series of murders that appears to be on a "death list," while becoming romantically involved with a television reporter (Patricia Clarkson). Jim Carrey has a small but memorable part as a doped-up rock star, and Liam Neeson is on board, too. Directed by Eastwood surrogate Buddy Van Horn (Any Which Way You Can). --Tom Keogh

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An underground betting pool contains the names of people recently murdered. As "Dirty Harry" Callahan investigates, he discovers his name is on the list.

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THE WEAKEST OF THE DIRTY HARRY FILMS, BUT STILL WORTH SEEING!.......2007-07-31

This is the weakest film in the series dispite having a really ingenious car chase sequence with a toy remote car that is rigged to explode when activated. There are some very good segments and a cool story line in this last entry in the series. Look to see Jim Carrey in an early movie role and a young Liam Neeson. It's not a bad film, but there has to be a best and there has to be a worst. My rating of the series 1)Dirty Harry 2)Sudden Impact 3)Magnum Force 4)The Enforcer 5)The Dead Pool. The DVD transfer is very good.

Is The Title Right? .......2007-07-26

I was not sure about the movie. All that happens is people die and complain. But where is the pool? I saw plenty of water by the bridge but nobody died in a pool, just typewriters and yelling in the dark. They say Harry was dirty, but he looked very clean and nice, mostly in suits with skinny ties; other people have funny long hair in back, but short on top. He and the girl were scared, but they didn't have a pool anyway to swim. I think the scary yelling killer would be title much better.

Magnum Finale.......2006-12-08

Clint Eastwood has a little pop-culture fun in this somewhat cartoonish Dirty Harry outing. "The Dead Pool" (1988) is a slight improvement over the unpleasantness of "The Enforcer" and "Sudden Impact," but Inspector Harry Callahan no longer resembles the cinematic icon depicted in director Don Siegel's 1971 classic. Still, we get an inventive car chase, a few memorable Clint one-liners, and a stronger-than-average cast (Liam Neeson, Patricia Clarkson, Evan C. Kim, Jim Carrey). Running only 91 minutes, the film moves at a good clip until stumbling at the finish line. It's a ludicrous climax as Harry blows away his final psychopath with a hand-held harpoon gun. Though a commercial success, "The Dead Pool" lacked the box-office firepower of its predecessors and Eastwood wisely bid adieu to his most famous character.

Average Eastwood.......2006-07-13

This is an alright Dirty Harry flick. It is good for at least one viewing if you like Clint as Harry and it also has Liam Neeson, with a short cameo by Jim Carry as a druggie rockstar that is kind of amusing.

Last good Eastwood / Dirty Harry / Clint cop flick of his career (really 3.5 stars on a mormal 4 star scale).......2006-03-28

In Dirty Harry Five, Eastwood is hot
on the trail of movie buff who is pretend-
ing to be Director 'Peter Swan', a schlock-
horror flick producer, running out of ideas.
Evan C.Kim as Al Kwan is the best partner
Dirty Harry has ever had! Patricia Clarkson
is fine here too. Good effort!

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NOT THE BEST IN THE SERIES!, BUT VERY GOOD!
The Third in The Dirty Harry Era
Moving Targets
A competent action but a noticeable lack of depth and subtlety...
enforcer

The Enforcer
Starring: Clint Eastwood , Tyne Daly , Harry Guardino , Bradford Dillman , and John Mitchum
Director: James Fargo
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ASIN: B00005NTNM
Release Date: 2001-11-20

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Trapped by his image in 1976, Clint Eastwood resurrected his Dirty Harry character for a third go-round (out of a total of five) in this potboiler story in which the San Francisco detective takes on a group of revolutionary kids. Tyne Daly costars as a female cop who partners with the reluctant Harry Callahan, and she does very well by a role created merely to underscore and articulate the hero's various virtues. It's a dull package all around, but inside the wrapping are good performances by the two leads. --Tom Keogh

Description

Harry Callahan grudgingly teams with a female cop during his pursuit of a band of terrorists.

Customer Reviews:

NOT THE BEST IN THE SERIES!, BUT VERY GOOD!.......2007-07-29

This is one of my least favorites in the series. I rate this right behind "The Dead Pool" The third installment gives "Harry" yet another partner,this time it's Tyne Daly(Cagney & Lacy)(Judging Amy)and the movie has that 70's TV movie feel once again. I am a fan of the entire series and I do like this film, but it just seemed like it didn't have much new to add to the series. This is one of the shortest films in the "Dirty Harry" franchise, but it didn't seem like it. It is by all means a very good and worthy installment and should not be missed. The DVD transfer is very good and the disc has some extras.

The Third in The Dirty Harry Era.......2007-02-16

The third picture featuring Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry. Clint Eastwood resumes his role as Police Inspector Harry Callahan; Tyne Daly plays the role of Inspector Kate Moore and Harry Guadino as Lt Al Bressler. Harry gets into one of his usual predicaments when his is relegated to Personnel to help interview patrol officers on the list to make inspector. While filling his duties in personnel he learns that there are eight openings for inspector and three of those eight will be filled by woman. A group of people who call themselves the People's Revolutionary Strike Force (PRSF), led by Bobby Maxwell, are making plans to go on a crime spree all over the city of San Francisco. When Dirty Harry's longtime partner is killed by the PRSF during a major weapons theft, Dirty Harry vows revenge and, surprisingly, is given some support by his superiors. Harry has one problem, he's given a new partner and it's non other then a lady inspector. After the Mayor of San Francisco is taken its up to Harry and his new partner are expecting to find him. All and all I give this movie 8 weasel stars.

Moving Targets.......2007-01-10

As the third entry in the Dirty Harry film series, The Enforcer is probably a little above average in terms of the time spent in watching it. Yet, it is a bit of a misfire (no pun intended) after "Dirty Harry" and "Magnum Force". The character of Harry Callahan returns more to the roots of his original incarnation in the first film, however his presence seems almost wasted here for some unexplained reason. James Fargo, a long-time member of Eastwood's film-family crew, takes over as director in the third installment of the Dirty Harry saga.

The basic premise of the movie involves a group of self-proclaimed revolutionaries who threaten the city by the Bay, so it's up to Harry to enforce the law and bring them to justice. At the business-end of a .44 magnum, of course. The film follows the basic formula of all the other films, as noted below.

The film opens up with a brutal, chilling scene involving a couple of the militants killing two truck delivery men. Shift to Harry and his current partner, Frank DiGiorgio (John Mitchum, a.k.a. brother of actor Robert Mitchum) who has appeared in the previous 2 Dirty Harry films. The robbery/hostage scene is the typical Harry-must-establish-his-credentials-for-the-audience, as in the beginning of every Dirty Harry film. He does so quite effectively here by dispensing with words and creating his own 'mini-Entebbe raid' on the perps and the store (note Joe Spano, a.k.a. Henry Goldblume from "Hill Street Blues" as one of the bad guys).

We next find Callahan moved from Homicide to personnel thanks to Captain McKay (Bradford Dillman), which is not to his liking. Some great dialogue in the personnel board interview scene among all actors involved, and we get introduced to who will obviously become Callahan's new partner, Kate Moore, played by Tyne Daly (sister of actor Tim Daly). The text of Harry's dislike of political correctness, or 'being stylish' as he puts it, still rings very true today. In keeping with the previous films, Harry is given a minority person as a partner: Chico the Hispanic-American in Dirty Harry, Early Smith an African-American in Magnum Force, and now a woman. To being saddled with Moore, Harry utters his tag-line for this film "Marvelous". Not as good as "Do I feel lucky" or "Make my day", or even "A man's got to know his limitations", but it's what we the audience are left with. Thus continues the formula.

The People's Revolutionary Strike Force are striking hard, including steeling weapons like LAWS rockets, automatic rifles, and then fatally stabbing Harry's detective friend Frank DiGiorgio who just happened to be in the area while the warehouse robbery was going down.

The city wants to pin the robbery and threat on black militants, but Harry doesn't buy it. So, when the terrorists kidnap the Mayor, Harry uses every tactic at his disposal to hunt them down.

Throughout the picture, Harry pretty much has disdain for everyone: his superiors, his partner, his informants, the people he questions, the mayor, and even a guy trying to get a free meal at the beginning of the picture. When Big Ed Mustafa (Albert Popwell, who appeared in 4 of the 5 Dirty Harry films as different characters) says, "Man, you really are dirty, aren't you", Harry's answer "The dirtiest" is in some ways an understatement, and in other ways incorrect. He seems more like "Grouchy Harry" throughout the film.

There are some excellent lines sprinkled throughout, like "V.F.W. - very few whites", "Why, that's mighty white of you", and "Your mouthwash ain't makin' it!".

Two very glaring errors in The Enforcer are the absence of Lalo Schifrin as composer of the soundtrack and the building-to-building rooftop chase over San Francisco that not only contains rather odd jazz music for such a violent action picture, but also lasts twice as long on screen as it should have.

The final confrontation on Alcatraz Island is exciting and leads to the inevitable death of Harry's partner, again not unexpected given what has been presented to us in the previous two films.

Although exciting in parts, The Enforcer just seemed to have been rushed into production and finished in order to give movie-goers a Dirty Harry film by Christmas. We are given even less to know about Harry than the previous 2 films, and in some ways he almost seems a caricature of the more despondant, over-worked, not-sure-why-he's-even-doing-this person whom we met in Dirty Harry. Although a decent action picture, some good lines, and of course Clint Eastwood all help it, the final result in many ways, "The Enforcer" still does not rise to any level other than plain old-fashioned popcorn entertainment, and fairly ordinary popcorn at that.

A competent action but a noticeable lack of depth and subtlety..........2006-12-28

Harry Callahan quickly establishes his action-not-words by driving his car through a liquor store window to free the owners, who are being held as hostages... Demoted to the personnel department, he scorns bureaucracy in general and in particular the Mayor's policy of attracting women into the force, but he is saddled with one, Kate Moore (Tyne Daly) as his by now obligatory 'minority' partner...

Insp. Callahan finds black militants are not his enemies but his allies: when 'Big' Ed Mustapha (Albert Popwell), the black leader, is arrested to boost the Mayor's prestige, Harry actually resigns this time and continues his pursuit of the revolutionaries as a loner... His female aide risks her own job to he1p him and eventually they chase a prime suspect through the seamy 'massage parlor' underworld of the city and kill a leading gang member, who has disguised, herself as a nun... And discovering that the Mayor is being held captive on Alcatraz Island, they make for an abandoned fortress for the final shootout...

The film is a step backwards in style and content from the previous two... Harry seems to have reverted to his first incarnation: 'What kind of a department are we running when we're more concerned with the rights of the criminals than of the people we're supposed to be protecting?' and displays unusual brutality in roughing up a man who feigns heart attacks instead of paying his restaurant bills...

Advertised as the 'dirtiest Harry of them all,' it is also the weakest... Without the experience of Siegel or Milius to help him, Eastwood took a gamble on James Fargo, his assistant director on some of his previous films and the result was competent action but a noticeable lack of depth and subtlety...

enforcer.......2006-04-01

IN THE BOOK THE ENFORCER THE MAIN CHARACTER JACK BURRBAGE LIVES IN SOUTH BEND INDIANA HE IS ABOUT 12 HE STARTS HIS CRIMINAL LIFE STEALING HUB CAPS IN THE SOUTH BEND AREA AND SELLING THEM TO AND OLD MAN.

LATER ON IN THE BOOK JACK MARRIES CAROLIN AND THEY ARE HAPPY TILL JACK STARTS TO USE DRUGS AND STARTED HIS NEW JOB AS AN ENFORCER AN ENFORCER IS SIMMALARE TO A MOBB BOSS.
JACK AND CAROLIN HAVE FIGHTS HE BECOMES AN ENFORCER PIMP BANK ROBBER AND A KILLER.
EVERY BODY FEARD HIM EXCEPT FOR THE POLICE WHEN JACK WENT TO JAIL HE HADE A HEROIN ADDICTIION AND THE GAURDS WOULD GIVE HIM FAKE HEROIN TO HELP WITH HIS ADDICTION.

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