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The Enforcer

Year:

1976

Duration:

96 min

Genres:

Action | Crime | Thriller

IMDB rate:

6.8

Director:

James Fargo

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1976-12-22

Filming Locations: 1470 Pine Street, San Francisco, California, USA

Earnings

Budget: $9,000,000

Gross: $46,200,000 (USA)SEK 2,665,006 (Sweden)

Cast

Actor

Character

Rudy Ramos

Clint Eastwood

Harry Callahan

Tyne Daly

Kate Moore

Harry Guardino

Lt. Bressler

Bradford Dillman

Capt. McKay

John Mitchum

DiGeorgio

DeVeren Bookwalter

Bobby Maxwell

John Crawford

The Mayor

Samantha Doane

Wanda

Robert F. Hoy

Buchinski (as Robert Hoy)

Jocelyn Jones

Miki

M.G. Kelly

Father John

Nick Pellegrino

Martin

Albert Popwell

Mustapha

Bill Ackridge

Andy

Bill Jelliffe

Johnny

Joe Bellan

Freddie the Fainter

Tim O'Neill

Police Sergeant

Jan Stratton

Mrs. Grey

Will MacMillan

Lt. Dobbs

Jerry Walter

Krause

Steve Eoff

Bustanoby

Tim Burrus

Henry Lee

Michael Cavanaugh

Lalo

Dick Durock

Karl

Ronald Manning

Tex

Adele Proom

Irene DiGeorgio

Glenn Leigh Marshall

Army Sergeant

Robert Behling

Autopsy Surgeon

Terence McGovern

Disc Jockey (as Terry McGovern)

Stan Richie

Bridge Operator

John Roselius

Mayor's Driver

Brian Fong

Scoutmaster

Art Rimdzius

Porno Director

Chuck Hicks

Huey

Anne Macey

Madam (as Ann Macy)

Gloria Prince

Massage Girl

Kenneth Boyd

Abdul

Bernard Glin

Koblo

Fritz Manes

Detective #1

Barbara Beebe

Porno Actress (uncredited)

George Cheung

Mendez Henchman (uncredited)

Michael L. Davis

Police Sergeant at Bombing (uncredited)

Roger Ferreira

Extra (uncredited)

Jean Glaudé

Militant (uncredited)

Arthur Malet

Innocent Bystander in Opening Action Sequence (uncredited)

Joe Spano

Mitch, Robber (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Clint Eastwood was originally going to direct this film himself. After taking over as director of The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) though, he found himself having to supervise the edit of that film and lacked time to fully prepare himself to both act and direct in another film so soon. He therefore promoted James Fargo, who would have been this film's assistant director, to full director. Eastwood would instead direct the next Dirty Harry film, Sudden Impact (1983).

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The scenes from the squad room where Harry drops the dynamite bomb, is identical to the squad room used in the series The Streets of San Francisco which ran at the time of filming this picture.

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During the firearms heist (known as Hamilton Firearms in the film) in a warehouse dock, the firearms heisted are real-life infantry weapons in service with the United States armed forces. The firearms include M16A1 assault rifles, Armalite AR18 assault rifles (the AR18 was not adopted as a standard service assault rifle - it was later adopted by the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland - the villain Tex is seen firing an AR18 during the Alcatraz shootout), and the M72 anti-tank missile, known as the Light Anti-Tank Weapon; in the film, the M72 was called the LAW Rocket. Both the M16A1 and the M72 were used in the Vietnam War.

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Goofs

When Harry chases Henry Lee on the roofs we can briefly see one person (very likely one of the crew) standing on another roof on the background. When Harry reaches the same point the person is gone.

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When the terrorists stop the mayors car by blowing out the right rear tire with machine gun fire, the terrorists were on the left rear side of the car.

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When Harry finds the old ladies in the sex parlour they are copywriting a message on a board. Everything is in broken English except the perfectly placed possessive apostrophe in "customers' items" at the end of the message.

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Quotes

Frank DiGiorgio: [DiGiorgio is dying] Harry, listen, the punk who cut me. I've seen him before.

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Harry Callahan: I'll tell you what you are to me, little man. You're just a maggot who sells dirty pictures.

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Massage Girl: Hi, there.

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Faq

Is Albert Popwell's character the same as in Dirty Harry?

It is possible, he seems familar to Harry and he says he knows him, he could be the robber shot outside the bank. This would mean that he only served 5 years for armed robbery (and possibly attemped murder for opening fire on Harry) but given the state of the justice system in Harry's world it is not unfeasible.

How many Dirty Harry movies are there?

There are five: Dirty Harry (1971); Magnum Force (1973); The Enforcer (1976); Sudden Impact (1983); The Dead Pool (1988).

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