Clinton "Clint" Eastwood1971
Stars as Inspector Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry, creating one of his best-known screen characters.
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Stars as Inspector Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry, creating one of his best-known screen characters.
Clint Eastwood stars in Dirty Harry, written by Harry and Rita Fink, centrs around a hard-edged New York City (later changed to San Francisco) police inspector named Harry Callahan who is determined to stop a psychotic killer by any means, Dirty Harry has been described as being arguably Eastwoods most memorable character, and the film has been credited with inventing the "loose-cannon cop" genre
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