Dirty Harry
Turkish title: Kirli Adam
“Detective Harry Callahan. He doesn't break murder cases. He smashes them.”
1971 · 1 h 42 min
Directed by 
Don Siegel
Don SiegelCast
Clint Eastwood 
Harry Guardino Andrew Robinson
Credits
Written by: Harry Julian Fink
Plot
A San Francisco police inspector hunts a serial killer and breaks the rules to do so.
Sinekatalog’s take
Don Siegel's thriller made Clint Eastwood's San Francisco cop a symbol of tough, rule-bending policing. Gritty and controversial for its politics, it spawned a franchise and a thousand imitators.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.7 / 10 (183,161 votes)
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