Dirty Harry II - Calahan

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Movie
German title Dirty Harry II - Calahan
Original title Magnum Force
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1973
length 118 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Ted Post
script Harry Julian Fink ,
Rita M. Fink ,
John Milius ,
Michael Cimino
production Robert Daley
music Lalo Schifrin
camera Frank Stanley
cut Ferris Webster
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Dirty Harry

Successor  →
Dirty Harry III - The Relentless

Dirty Harry II - Calahan (AKA: Magnum Force ) is an action film directed by Ted Post from the year 1973 with Clint Eastwood in the title role.

action

In San Francisco , some high-ranking criminals are murdered by an unknown perpetrator. During one of these executions , a policeman who was a friend of Chief Inspector Harry Callahan was shot dead. Callahan suspects that the perpetrator is to be found in the ranks of the San Francisco Police Department. A group of young motorcycle police officers in particular appear to be involved in the lynching files. Although one of them is killed in an action against the Mafia, which ends in a bloody shootout, "Dirty Harry" correctly suspects that this was just a pawn sacrifice . He found proof of his theory by borrowing the service weapon of one of the suspicious colleagues at an internal police shooting competition and then having one of the projectiles fired with it compared with those found at the crime scenes of the murders - they come from the same weapon.

Shortly thereafter, Callahan is asked by the cop gang to join them. When he refuses, the next thing he finds in his mailbox is a bomb. Although he can defuse it, he does not manage to warn his partner in time - he falls victim to an explosive device in his own mailbox. Lt. Briggs, Callahan's supervisor, who picks him up personally, asks him to drive the car because he wants to take a closer look at the seized bomb.

Briggs then points his revolver at Callahan on the way to the Police Department. He reveals that he is in cahoots with the group of murdering cops - who are already following the car on their motorcycles. However, Callahan can overwhelm him and throw him out of the car while driving. During the subsequent pursuit and afterwards at the port, the remaining members of the cop gang are killed. When he returns to the car, Briggs threatens him again with his gun. He gets in the car and tells Callahan that he will blame him for the murders and deaths of the cops. Believe it or not because of the reputation of "Dirty Harry" ("You're a killer, Harry!"). He drives off; but Callahan secretly activated the bomb from his mailbox and hidden it in the car. She explodes and kills Briggs.

production

background

When Clint Eastwood declined to direct Magnum Force , Ted Post became a director. Eastwood later said in interviews that he and Buddy Van Horn directed many scenes as unofficial directors.

Suzanne Somers can also be seen in a small role . She plays a light girl who swims half-naked in the pool before being shot. Albert Popwell, who starred in different roles in four of five Dirty Harry films, played the pimp who was murdered at the beginning.

In the original, the name Calahan is also spelled with an “l” in the credits - as in the German distribution title. In all other films the name Callahan is spelled.

success

The film grossed $ 44,680,473 and was the sixth highest grossing film of 1973.

criticism

“The second film with Clint Eastwood in the role of the tough, tough police inspector shows a questionable ideology more clearly than Don Siegel's 'Dirty Harry' (1971): Violence is propagated almost without a concealment, every means seems right in the fight against criminals. [...] The film is obviously not entirely reluctant to see such reprisals - its moral turn at the end of the (cleverly constructed) plot is without persuasive power. "

- Lexicon of international film

Aftermath

In April 1974, the American public was shocked by a particularly brutal robbery , known as the Ogden Hi-Fi Murders . Three African American airmen, Pierre Dale Selby , William Andrews and Keith Roberts , members of the US Air Force , raided a hi-fi shop, took five hostages and forced them to drink pipe cleaners. Three hostages died. During the trial, two of the perpetrators, Selby and Andrews, admitted repeating the movie Dirty Harry II, which shows a scene where a woman is forced to drink liquid drain cleaner and dies shortly afterwards. Both of the main perpetrators were sentenced to death and executed.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Magnum Force, Box Office Information . The Numbers. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
  2. ^ Dirty Harry Franchise Box Office Information . Box Office Mojo . Retrieved February 11, 2012.
  3. ^ Dirty Harry II - Calahan. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ^ Gary Kinder: Victim: The Other Side of Murder , 1982, Dell Publishin, ISBN 0-385-29105-1
  5. ↑ John Douglas, Mark Olshaker: The Anatomy of Motive: The FBI's Legendary Mind Hunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals , 1999, Scribner, ISBN 0-684-84598-9

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