Dirty Harry Dirty Harry Dirty Harry is a 1971 American action crime thriller film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the "Dirty Harry" series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan. The film drew upon the actual case of the Zodiac Killer as the Callahan character seeks out a similar vicious psychopath. "Dirty Harry" was a critical and commercial success and set the style for a whole genre of police films. It was followed by four sequels: "Magnum Force" in 1973, "The Enforcer" in 1976, "Sudden
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism history of film criticism up to the present, the film introduces internet-based critics Harry Knowles of "Ain't It Cool News" and Karina Longworth, who wrote at the time for "spout.com". Gerald Peary says, ""For the Love of Movies" is the first feature documentary to tell the rich, colorful, and undeniably controversial story of the American film critic ... I had to sort of invent what I think is the history of film criticism, because there wasn’t any formally written book on it." Partly due to difficulties in getting financial backing, the documentary took nearly a decade to make. Peary says,