Dirty Harry
Released Date
December 23, 1971
Distributor
Warner Bros.
Genre
Action
Rating
R
Worldwide Gross
Domestic Gross + International Gross = Worldwide Gross
$35,976,000 + $0 = $35,976,000
$35,976,000 + $0 = $35,976,000
When a madman calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces the city, tough-as-nails San Francisco Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath.
About
Crime movie that features Clint Eastwood in the title role as a San Francisco cop hunting down a psychopathic killer. The film's success led to four sequels, beginning with Magnum Force in 1973.
Trivia
The killer in the film is based off of the real life Zodiac Killer, who commit a series of murders in northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s.