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Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Clint Eastwood makes a welcome return as unorthodox SFPD Inspector Harry Callahan in The Enforcer, the third entry of the Dirty Harry series. Though a box office success in 1976, many people dismissed it as a worn out carbon copy of previous movies Dirty Harry (1971) and Magnum Force (1973). I beg to differ. I enjoyed The Enforcer, and at a compact running time of 96 minutes it is one that I still enjoy to watch from time to time.SFPD Inspector Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) finds himself being disciplined by Captain McKay (Bradford Dillman) after foiling a liquor store robbery by driving an unmarked police car that the robbers demanded through the store, shooting all of the robbers with his trusted .44 Magnum revolver and in the process injuring a number of hostages and causing $14,379 worth of damage to the store. Lieutenant Bressler is helpless to see Callahan transferred to personnel. At the same time, a terrorist group named the People's Revolutionary Strike Force (PRSF) led by the Bobby Maxwell (DeVeren Bookwalter) is preparing to wage war on San Francisco after they manage to steal a large number of military weapons from a warehouse and kill Callahan's partner Frank DiGiorgio (John Mitchum). Callahan is reinstated to Homicide and his partner happens to be rookie female Inspector Kate Moore (Tyne Daly) who in a coincidence Callahan interviewed during his brief time in Personnel and openly pointed out her lack of field experience. Although Callahan is none too thrilled to have Moore as his partner, Moore later proves herself to be a capable police officer and in turn Callahan admires her for her loyalty and respects her when she stands by him after he is suspended after butting heads with Captain McKay one too many times. Callahan and Moore work together to take down the terrorist group after they take the Mayor (John Crawford) hostage and hold him for ransom at Alcatraz Prison.I was delighted to see Clint Eastwood return as his iconic character "Dirty" Harry Callahan. He appears to have changed in some ways, particularly with his opinion of women in policing, but he has not yielded in his unorthodox ways of dealing with criminals much to the chagrin of his superiors. Tyne Daly stands tall and holds her own as Inspector Kate Moore, willing to prove herself in the unforgiving world of policing. Tyne Daly would later go on to star in popular crime TV series Cagney & Lacey. DeVeren Bookwalter made an effective villain as the charismatic blue eyed terrorist leader Bobby Maxwell. Also returning in the Dirty Harry series are Harry Guardino, John Mitchum and Albert Popwell (who pops up in a different role from the previous 2 movies).Third time was certainly the lucky charm and I had a good time watching Clint Eastwood return as Harry Callahan. The Enforcer was a welcome addition to the Dirty Harry series.9/10.

Back in the Eighties when I was still watching network TV, I used to catch Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless in 'Cagney and Lacey', their female detective team-up in which they cooperated in both their professional and personal lives. I couldn't help thinking back then that it was Daly's role in "The Enforcer" that recommended her for the part in the TV series. Even when watching the movie today, Daly as a cop doesn't quite click with me, but that's probably just a personal bias. Even so, it bothered me that she got wasted at the end of the story, as her chemistry with Clint Eastwood seemed to improve over the course of the picture.Maybe you had to live during the era, but it seemed that right after the kidnapping of Patty Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1973, action movies of the time described militant gangs with names like The Peoples' Revolutionary Strike Force and it used to bug me no end. Another one was the International Liberation Army from the 1977 TV flick "The Night They Took Miss Beautiful". All these liberation armies and strike forces and they never accomplished a thing except grabbing headlines and making a nuisance of themselves. Oh well.Certainly Harry Callahan didn't start out being an equal opportunity partner and given the situations he found himself in, was as far removed from political correctness territory as circumstances allowed. His training scenarios for new recruits were priceless, and he never did get far with his cruelty to animals exercise with Mrs. Grey from the mayor's office. Kate Moore (Daly) had to summon all of her intestinal fortitude to get beyond Harry's prescription of getting married and having kids; fortunately small arms training stood her well in taking out Sister Wanda (Samantha Doane) at the activist priest's church.Hey, I don't know if this was intentional or not, but remember the beat down Harry gave to the guy at the whorehouse? He used the plunger method on a guy named Buchinski (Robert Hoy), and I had to wonder if that wasn't a subliminal tribute to another action star of the Seventies, Charles Bronson. Bronson's real last name was Buchinski, I thought that was kind of cool.Well you just knew one of those Laws rockets would have to come in handy to close out the story. Dirty Harry liked to do things his own way, and what better way then to go out with a big bang. And to think, creepy Bobby saw it coming and couldn't do a thing about it.

The Enforcer (1976) *** (out of 4) The third film in the series finds Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) going up against a group of crazed Vietnam vets who take the Mayor hostage and demanding money for him before they not only kill him but blow up the city. With a new partner (Tyne Daly) at his side Harry must try and find out who the group is.This here is quite as good as the previous film but it's certainly still a winner as everything that makes the series so memorable is on display here and considering it's the third film in the series, it's still rather impressive how fresh the lead character is as well as the story. I think it's fair to say that the story is "B" movie material but it's still very effective and it's certainly good enough to hold your attention from start to finish and of course there are a few twists thrown in as well.This third film gives Harry a female partner, which allows for various sexist scenes that could only work in a film from this era. The different sex really adds quite a bit to the movie since it does get the laughs that you'd expect in certain scenes but it's also a refreshing take on the genre. By this time the Dirty Harry character was already iconic so the toughness of that character mixed well with the female officer here. It certainly doesn't hurt that Eastwood and Daly have so much chemistry together. The two of them are very effective in their roles with Eastwood clearly at ease playing this tough-as-nails cop who doesn't everything his way. The supporting cast also offers up good performances from Bradford Dillman, John Mitchum, Albert Popwell and Harry Guardino.THE ENFORCER contains all the elements that made the first two films great entertainment. Of course you get a pretty simple story of good versus evil but what makes it so well here is how it's set up. The opening sequence is downright violent and the cold-blooded nature of this group just makes you hate them to the point where you can't wait to see Harry get revenge. The film also offers up some pretty exciting action sequences including one of the great foot chases ever captured. Add in the top-notch cinematography and the great jazz score and THE ENFORCER is another success.

It's the third Dirty Harry movie. Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is as hard as ever. San Francisco is threatened by a terrorist group called, The People's Revolutionary Strike Force led by Bobby Maxwell (DeVeren Bookwalter). He lures 2 gas workers with a hot girl and kills them for their uniform. They killed Callahan's partner during a heist of military weapons. Callahan is forced to partner with Kate Moore (Tyne Daly) who has no street experience but lots of book smarts. She was promoted for political considerations for being female.It's a workable Dirty Harry movie. He's as inappropriate and violent as ever. Tyne Daly is pre-'Cagney & Lacey'. She does a compelling job as an inexperienced but strong-willed newbie. The thing that bothered me is the group of terrorists. They are part silly stereotypes and part artificial concoction. They don't really instill fear except maybe Maxwell. However he's more of a silly stereotype. I simply don't like the villains. The movie feels inferior to the first two movies.