About this episode

This episode discusses the film Dirty Harry, directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood, as part of the Awesome Movie Year series on 1971.

This bonus episode for our season on the awesome movie year of 1971 features Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry . Directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson and John Vernon, Dirty Harry is the first of five movies featuring Eastwood as San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert ( https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dirty-harry-1971), Roger Greenspun in The New York Times , and Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times . Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/, on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jason Harris, Josh Bell

Topics covered

• film analysis
• 1971 movies
• Dirty Harry
• Clint Eastwood
• movie reviews

Keywords

• Dirty Harry
• Clint Eastwood
• Don Siegel
• 1971 films
• movie reviews

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