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When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath. From TMDB

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  • Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 12, 2026

    Local parents groups asking if adults can ride school buses to help protect children from ICE after a special ed bus got stopped this morning. Like a Dirty Harry movie except the villain in the federal government.

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  • jamelle @jamellebouie.netBluesky · Dec 20, 2025

    worth watching a movie set in the 1970s, like THE NICE GUYS, and comparing to a movie made in the 1970s, like DIRTY HARRY

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  • jamelle @jamellebouie.netBluesky · May 6, 2024

    i am actually fascinated by this movie? it delivers the same kind of thrills and satisfaction — and serves the same cultural and emotional purpose — as a film like DEATH WISH or DIRTY HARRY or JOE, except directed at financial villains and fraudsters.

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  • Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2025

    I know there's a character in the new Death Stranding called Dollman, but who remembers the old Fullmoon B-movie sci-fi action Dollman? Anyone? Well, it's a movie about an alien Dirty Harry who chases bad guy to earth, where he is only the size of an action figure. Yes, this is a real movie.

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  • Larry Karaszewski @larrythek.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2025

    R.I.P. the great Lalo Schifrin. He changed the sound of movie music forever. So many classic scores “Cool Hand Luke” “Enter The Dragon” “Bullitt” “Dirty Harry” “Kelly’s Heroes” to name a few. Here we a few years back at the Oscars when he received his honorary Governors award. A super cool guy.

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  • Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 26, 2025

    Lalo Schifrin, the legendary composer responsible for the Mission: Impossible theme, Dirty Harry score, and over 100 other film and TV soundtracks, has sadly died at the age of 93. He will be greatly missed and forever remembered. Read our tribute: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

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  • Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    The goal of the movie is that in 20 years people will think that’s what things were actually like (see: Dirty Harry)

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  • Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2026

    Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Dirty Harry (1971) By Charlie Griak

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  • Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.comBluesky · Aug 29, 2025

    if you go back to like, 1977's Dirty Harry, which is about the gun-happiest movie ever made, Clint Eastwood's big conversation-ender is a .44 magnum. It was THE cool gun. A 44 can't even penetrate things that a 7.62 bullet goes through like they're made of kleenex

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  • Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.socialBluesky · May 18, 2026

    One of the movie series that did this right was Dirty Harry. Callahan never changed, even as the world changed around him, and in the movie where he was paired with a woman (gasp!) he came to respect her because she was a good cop. But he didn't become a feminist.

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  • Big Papa Nito @bigpapanito.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 3, 2026

    #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Scream 2 - A worthy sequel. Luckily they never made a 3rd one. Now You See Me 3 - it's a real movie with proper actors. I know. I can't believe it either Dreamscape - Inception, If it just got on with it Dirty Harry - ACAB but also a classic bit of cinema

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  • Jim Brown @jimbrown.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 20, 2026

    Dude looks like a guy who gets shot by Clint in a Dirty Harry movie

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  • House of Reggae @houseofreggae.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 19, 2026

    Happy 77th birthday to Big Youth. On a Wednesday afternoon in 1972 Big Youth went to the Carib Theatre to see the British crime film Sitting Target. A few days later his friend saw Dirty Harry. It inspired this classic 7"... youtu.be/BQm4sBkGT3s?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky

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  • Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2026

    The Dead Pool (1988). In which the wheels come off, albeit in a very entertaining manner. Dirty Harry is dropped head first into a Cannon movie with an extra zero in the coke budget. There's a jangling energy of The 80s realizing they're ending and by god, they're taking Harry Callahan with them.

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  • Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2025

    DIRTY HARRY - a vile masterpiece which is a perfect movie that is also fairly evil

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  • Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2026

    You’ll recall Trump’s first inauguration where he encouraged police to be more violent with suspects. He’s had Dirty Harry brain probably since the movie came out

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  • Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2025

    “Now you know why they call me Dirty Harry…” But seriously this is a first rate motion picture www.rogerebert.com/reviews/an-o...

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  • ae @aelkus.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 24, 2025

    however it is still the best movie in the entire Dirty Harry series bc you see Callahan struggling to want to defend a system he fundamentally does not believe in, and finds the reason to do so after the realization that the alternative is fascism

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  • ae @aelkus.bsky.socialBluesky · May 9, 2025

    Magnum Force is the best Dirty Harry movie because it forces Callahan to make a choice of whether he wants to be a conservative or a fascist.

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  • iĐⱤɆ🦋 @idrew.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2026

    Remembering classic Cop 🚔 in 198️⃣8️⃣ action thriller The Dead Pool 🎬 with Clint Eastwood 🇺🇸 AkA "Dirty" Harry Callahan🚨It was the 5️⃣ and final film🍿in the Dirty Harry series 📺 He had some excellent one liners 💬 but "Go ahead, make myday"💥 was my favourite ❤️🔫😁 #ClintEastwood #DirtyHarry #HarryCallahan

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  • AdMan of the Dead @admancomics.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 26, 2025

    R.I.P. Lalo Schifrin, one of the greatest film composers of all time. His scores for Dirty Harry and Enter The Dragon are incredible.

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  • Anna @idreamofscotty.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    Clint Eastwood defined the rugged cinematic hero. From the steely glance of the Spaghetti Western "Man with No Name" to the gritty resolve of Dirty Harry, he rewrote film history. Now a legendary Oscar-winning director, his gaze remains as sharp as ever. 🤠

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  • Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.orgBluesky · Jun 26, 2025

    Lalo Schifrin, the Grammy-winning composer of Mission: Impossible and film scores including Cool Hand Luke, Dirty Harry, and Bullitt, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 93. variety.com/2025/music/n...

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  • Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2024

    One movie I love for some reason I can't entirely explain is Magnum Force, the Dirty Harry movie where a squad of motorcycle cops starts killing anyone they want to as a shapeshifting mass and even Dirty Harry is kind of like Hm.

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  • Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2025

    Insert a movie into another movie: When Dirty Harry Met Sally The Empire Strikes Back To The Future The Good Will Hunting, The Bad Lieutenant And The Coyote Ugly

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  • David Kittredge @davidkittredge.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 26, 2025

    RIP Lalo Schifrin, who composed some of the most iconic movie scores in history including DIRTY HARRY, COOL HAND LUKE and THE AMITYVILLE HORROR as well as this legendary, beyond-iconic TV theme: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5SY...

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  • On This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 5, 2026

    On this night (5th March) in 1988, the Scala Cinema was showing The Exorcist (1973), A Boy And His Dog (1975), Enter The Dragon (1973) and Dirty Harry (1971) as what was billed as a 70s Shockers All-nighter.

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  • Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 26, 2025

    Lalo Schifrin passed away. Maybe the most fun movie and TV composer, of all my faves. Enter the Dragon, Bullitt, Dirty Harry movies, Matt Helm movies, Cool Hand Luke, Mission Impossible, Mannix, Starsky & Hutch. A jazzy coolness in much of his work. His music makes you feel like the lead in a movie.

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  • MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2026

    New on That '70s Movie Podcast - Dirty Harry! The first 2/3 of this movie is a tight, provocative policier with solid suspense and stunning night-for-night shooting . . . which then utterly loses its mind No wonder Nixon loved it open.spotify.com/episode/6lPr... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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  • Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2026

    Gran Torino is a *weird* film. (I also think that there's some antecedents here in the Dirty Harry films)

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  • The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2026

    Film poster for the movie "Dirty Harry" (1971) starring Clint Eastwood. #HappyBirthdayClint

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  • 🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2025

    I’m watching a movie that legit has a priest say, “I’d like to quote Revlations 3:57” and pulls out a giant Dirty Harry fuck you revolver.

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  • The Film Crowd @thefilmcrowd.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2025

    When Justin suggested a Robert Ryan series one film jumped to the top of my list: ON DANGEROUS GROUND in which he plays a proto Dirty Harry who goes on a redemptive journey with Ida Lupino, and a cracking Bernard Herrmann score. Join #thefilmcrowd from 8pm this Monday! archive.org/details/on-d...

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  • Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2025

    An amazingly nasty yet riveting policier seemingly made for movie fans who found DIRTY HARRY too tame. Vince Edwards shines as the film's fascistic cop "hero," a man who openly joined the force because it gave him a license to kill people. But Chuck Connors steals the show as the titular villain.

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  • Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2024

    Dirty Harry is a horror movie, change my mind

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  • Clinton of the Damned 🎃👻 @puritythrufire.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 30, 2026

    Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #78 "The Shootist" (Don Siegel/1976) John Wayne's final film roll directed by the same man who did the original Dirty Harry. Excellent stuff, check it out!

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  • Ian McDougall @ianmcdougall.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2025

    My favourite bit from any Dirty Harry film is the bit in Magnum Force where Harry drives past Basil Fawlty who's about to give his car a damn goos thrashing #itv4

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  • FakeKraid @fakekraid.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2024

    It's taking the entire action movie mileu of the time and flipping it around, from Dirty Harry to Terminator, and flipping the values around backwards

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  • MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2026

    BOTD DP Bruce Surtees!! Shot 20 #70s Film (!!) - incl Play Misty, Dirty Harry, Blume in Love, Lenny, Night Moves We just lauded his magnificent contribs to Harry and Night Movies on recent eps of That '70s Movie Podcast! More via @robert-emmet.bsky.social: r-emmetsweeney.com/2020/01/17/t...

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  • davidaldridgedc.bsky.social @davidaldridgedc.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 13, 2026

    VAR for “Mistaken Identity.” Sounds like an ‘80s film in the Dirty Harry series. “DNA? More like DOA, punk.”

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  • Clinton of the Damned 🎃👻 @puritythrufire.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2025

    Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Day #267 "Dirty Harry" (Don Siegel/1971) Classic tough guy cop thriller and the start of a great series! Also the start of a string of people unlucky enough to be Callahan's partner. Worth your time to check this one out.

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  • Dr. Sheri Chinen Biesen @sheribiesen.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2025

    RIP to the great composer Lalo Schifrin of #film scores such as Bullitt, Cool Hand Luke, Dirty Harry, Mission Impossible and many more. youtu.be/DQs7QS9dx0g?... #RIP #LaloSchifrin

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  • film-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 20, 2026

    So Death finally came for Chuck Norris, but I heard it was actually Chuck Norris who finally came for Death. RIP for an action star. Lone Wolf McQuade wasn't bad, but his best was Code of Silence, a revamped Dirty Harry IV script smartly retooled for Norris. 3/5 film-authority.com/2026/03/20/c...

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  • Sebastien P @karenine.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2026

    #DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 6 A song with the same title as a movie, book or TV show 🎧 Gorillaz • Dirty Harry youtu.be/cLnkQAeMbIM?...

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  • Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 27, 2026

    Of course, despite Hollywood's liberal reputation, a lot of entertainment content has always been conservative-coded from cowboy movies on, via Dirty Harry, Deathwish and every other movie about a noble gun-toting independent man out for revenge.

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  • On This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2026

    On this night (6th February) in 1982, the Scala Cinema was showing The Gauntlet (1977), Dirty Harry (1971), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) and Magnum Force (1973) as a Clint Eastwood all-nighter.

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  • Gav Thorpe @gavthorpe.co.ukBluesky · Sep 28, 2025

    Add a word, change a movie. A Dental Bridge Too Far When Dirty Harry Met Sally The Hackney Empire Strikes Back Full Metal Mickey Jacket

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  • Mr. Cait @chas.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 25, 2025

    One of my favorite genres of movies is the Studio Ripoff, where a major motion picture studio blatantly rips off an older movie. Karate Kid is a ripoff of Rocky. Cobra is a ripoff of Dirty Harry. Den of Thieves is a ripoff of Heat. What’s your favorite Studio Ripoff?

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  • Mike Hartigan - Professional Scribbler @mikehartigan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2026

    A few more movie characters! Gogo Yubari and the Bride from Kill Bill, Dirty Harry and Luke Skywalker. Just for fun. #illustrator #dirtyharry #starwars #killbill #digitalart

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  • Abbott and Costello Meet MikeZilla Minus Zero (#15584) @mikeymcfilms.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2026

    #otd in 1930 Clint Eastwood actor, director (Dirty Harry films; Play Misty for Me; Unforgiven), and politician (Mayor of Carmel) was born in San Francisco, California I could never believe that Clint was older than my mom What’s your favorite Clint movie? Mine is Kelly’s Heroes

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  • Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 29, 2025

    Clint Eastwood and Patricia Clarkson in a publicity still for THE DEAD POOL (1988), the final Dirty Harry movie Clarkson was BOTD in 1959

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  • AFG (Tony) @tonygallacher.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2025

    #ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge Ennio Morricone No 4 Le Marginal Theme From 1983 Soundtrack to French film Le Marginal (The Outsider). Film (sort of Dirty Harry thing) not the greatest, but always loved the music from opening titles. youtu.be/zZANZE1GvUs?...

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  • Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2025

    It's important that the maverick shark hunter is an idiot: this is a post-Vietnam and Watergate movie. The contending political forces were technocratic Carter-style reform vs "Dirty Harry" Reagan-style "take the gloves off" revanchism. Jaws picks technocratic reform, expertise and responsibility.

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  • Annoné Butler @bookishwgc.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2024

    I remember going to the cinema in Kerry once and it was full of very young children (about 8 years old?) who’d just been confirmed (they were still wearing the outfits). The film? Dirty Harry. They appeared to love it.

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  • Charlie güey @anarchy99.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2024

    #MovieMadness #MovieChallenge 11. The movie with the best soundtrack. youtu.be/cVJiQZ3ebnk?... Lalo Schifrin - Dirty Harry I ❤️ Lalo

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  • Cinema Strikes Back @cinemastrikesback.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 18, 2023

    Every now and then people will do one of those threads on “what is the film that most stands in opposition to your own moral values that you still love,” and my answer is pretty much always Dirty Harry 🤣

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  • MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2026

    New on That '70s Movie Podcast - Dirty Harry! I make the case for the 1st 71 mins; M goes all Kael ("a deeply immoral movie") & Ebert ("The movie’s moral position is fascist") - not that he's wrong Made for a great conversation!! open.spotify.com/episode/6lPr... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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  • johnhurschelrunion.bsky.social @johnhurschelrunion.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2025

    what is your favorite action movie of the 70's? mine is don siegel's DIRTY HARRY 1971

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  • Dix @dixonij.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 26, 2025

    RIP to a composing *legend* in Lalo Schifrin. Wrote the original "Mission: Impossible” theme and TV score along with Starsky and Hutch and movie scores for Cool Hand Luke, Dirty Harry series, THX1138, The Amityville Horror, Enter the Dragon, and Bullitt among MANY others. variety.com/2025/music/n...

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  • Jaime “Nightmare” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 21, 2025

    rewatching DIRTY HARRY, THE FRENCH CONNECTION, and THE SEARCHERS in close proximity really made me mull over the idea of a film being a vessel (even a secure container) for evil; or even its characters. There's something deeply wrong with Callahan, Popeye, and Edwards /

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