Category: Crime drama
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It's the movie that put Clint Eastwood on the map and gave the western lexicon the phrase "Do you feel lucky, punk?", as well as spawned four sequels - the 1971 Don Siegel-directed masterpiece "Dirty Harry".
Now, filmmaking was a different beast back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, so one of the curiosities for me when was to see how things were done "back in the day". It's also quite possible that this is the oldest movie I have reviewed so far for this blog (Editorial note - yes, it is. And by quite a margin).
But I gotta ask - how does this movie rank in 2025 with over 50 years of cinema to contrast it with? Let's find out after a plot recap!
Plot:
The movie starts off with an unnamed woman taking a swim in the sunshine in a pool atop a very tall building in San Francisco. Unbeknownst to her, a sniper is taking up position on an even higher building not too far away and has her in his sight. The sniper pulls the trigger and the woman bleeds out in the swimming pool.
