Dirty Harry local and federal police committing offences and overstepping their authority by entrapment and obstruction of justice. Author McGilligan, argued that America needed a hero, a winner at a time when the authorities were losing the battle against crime. The box-office success of "Dirty Harry" led to the production of four sequels. In the 2007 film "Zodiac", also set in San Francisco and inspired by the Zodiac Killer, cartoonist Robert Graysmith approaches police detective Dave Toschi at the cinema, where he is watching "Dirty Harry" with his wife. When Graysmith tells Toschi he is going to catch the Zodiac killer, Toschi
Drying Up the Streets of the ‘flower power’ generation, "Drying Up the Streets" mixes documentary realism with stylized set pieces. It’s one of director Robin Spry’s finest films; however, it never received theatrical distribution and was eventually aired on the CBC in 1979 to good notices. Drying Up the Streets Drying Up the Streets is a 1978 Canadian feature from Robin Spry produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. This film was originally planned as a one-hour drama for the CBC’s "For the Record", series but was expanded into a feature while it was being shot cinéma vérité-style on the streets of Toronto between October