Dirty Harry novels of the four first "Dirty Harry" films as tie-ins. Author and screenwriter Phillip Rock wrote the novelization of "Dirty Harry" in 1971, based on an early draft of the script. Mel Valley wrote the sequel, "Magnum Force", in 1973. Wesley Morgan novelized "The Enforcer" in 1976. The "Sudden Impact" novelization was written by Joseph Stinson, one of the screenwriters. Stinson, who had rewritten the originally independent script as a "Dirty Harry" vehicle for Eastwood, adapted the novel in 1983. Following "The Enforcer", Eastwood announced that he would not make any further "Dirty Harry" films (he eventually returned to the role
Magnum Force before we could consider him bad at it. And acting isn't required of him in "Magnum Force"." Rotten Tomatoes sampled 20 reviewers and judged 80% of the reviews to be positive. Magnum Force Magnum Force is a 1973 American action thriller and the second to feature Clint Eastwood as maverick cop Harry Callahan after the 1971 film "Dirty Harry". Ted Post, who also directed Eastwood in the television series "Rawhide" and the feature film "Hang 'Em High", directed this second installment in the "Dirty Harry" film series. The screenplay was written by John Milius (who provided an uncredited rewrite for