dirty harry go to atlanta be what burt call this fantastic and first rate detective thriller that borrow some of it plot from the venerable dana andrew movie laura . not only do burt reynolds star in this superb saga but he also helm it and he doesn not make a single mistake either stag the action or with his casting of character . not a bad performance in the movie and reynolds do an outstanding job of direct it . henry silva be truly icy a a hit man . detective tom sharky ( burt reynolds ) be on a narcotics case in underground atlanta when everything go wrong . he wind up chase a suspect and shoot it out with the gunman on a bus . during the melee and an innocent bystander dy . john woo the killer replicate this scene . anyway and the atlanta police department bust burt down to vice and he take order from a new bos and frisco ( charles durning of oh and brother and where art thou . ) in the basement . sharky wind up in a real cesspool of crime . sharky and his fellow detective arch ( bernie casey ) and papa ( brian keith ) set up surveillance on a high price call girl dominoe ( rachel ward of after dark and my sweet ) who have a luxurious apartment that she share with another girl . dominoe be see a local politician hotchkins ( earl holliman of police woman ) on the side who be campaign for governor but the chief villain and victor ( vittorio gassman of the dirty game ) want him to end the affair . hotchkins be reluctant to accommodate victor and so victor have cocaine snort billy score ( henry silva of wipeout ) terminate dominoe . billy blast a hole the size of a twelve inch pizza in the door of dominoe apartment and kill her . sharky have do the unthinkable . during the surveillance and he have grow fond of dominoe to the point that he become hopelessly infatuate with her . sharky mission in life now be to bust victor and but he learn that victor have an informant inside the atlanta police department . the plot really heat up when sharky discovers later that billy shoot the wrong girl and that dominoe be still alive . sharky take her into protective custody and thing grow even more complicated . he assemble his machine of the title to deal with victor and his hood . william fraker widescreen lensing of the action be immaculate . unfortunately and this vastly underrated classic be available only a a full frame film . fraker definitely contribute to the atmosphere of the picture and especially during the mutilation scene on the boat when the villain cut off one of sharky finger . this be a rather gruesome scene . burt never make a movie that surpass sharky machine .