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Warner Home Video has announced the details of current releases of all five Dirty Harry movies with unusual special features. They’ll all be in their new widescreen formats only.
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They will be available on standard DVD in this 7-disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition, or separately in Special or Deluxe editions. (« Special » is better than « deluxe » here–only Dirty Harry gets a 2-disc Special Edition, the others will all be on single discs, but all will have recent special features.) Links for the separate DVDs are below.
They’ll also be on Blu-ray in a 5-disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition. Only the Dirty Harry Special Edition will be available separately on Blu-ray. The other four movies will only be available on Blu-ray as portion of the complete status. (They won’t be available in HD, which Warner officially discontinues at the demolish of May.)
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Assuming the transfers are trustworthy (update: everyone says the transfers are righteous, better than the traditional ones), this looks like an marvelous position. Whether those with older DVD releases will want to upgrade will be a matter of personal preference, but I personally earn the modern commentaries and features very graceful.
Here’s a bit about each film and the special features, contained in both the separate releases and the sets. The Ultimate Editions will also include some additional features, listed further below.
Dirty Harry Special Edition
Dirty Harry is generally regarded as a classic, the beginning of a second larger-than-life persona for Clint Eastwood (after The Man with No Name) . It’s the source of the eminent « Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk? » (The dependable quote is « … you’ve got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk? » but the recent doesn’t quote as well out of context.)
Tough cop « Dirty » Harry Callahan has his bear simple, commonsense rules for dealing with crime, based on a strong sense of fair and infamous and an impatience with needless details and constraints. The latter gets him into continual anguish with the system which, as portrayed in the movie, is more about politics and bureaucracy than doing what needs to be done. This reflected well the frustrations and fears of Americans in the ’70s that criminals were taking over the streets and that the law was powerless to close them because the « criminal-coddling » courts were holding them succor. I personally value the Fourth Amendment and other such niceties and shiver to assume of some of the political and fair ramifications of this movie (some of which are unruffled very remarkable with us), but whatever one’s politics, Dirty Harry is very effective as a police-action thriller, largely because of Eastwood’s current persona. It’s hard not to love and root for him even if you judge he’s not always lawful. There are also the standard gunfights and car chases, and high suspense, all well done.
In the films that followed in the series, Harry became a somewhat more balanced, complex or confusing character, depending on your point of idea, coming down clearly on the side of the law against rogue vigilante cops, for example, and learning to be pleased a female cop as a partner, but the basic plan of Harry standing strong despite the detestable, wimpy system remained.
I’m gay to inspect that some of the recent special features in the place deal with the « issues » raised by the Dirty Harry films. I spy forward to seeing what others design of them.
The special features:
– recent commentary by filmmaker and Eastwood associate/biographer Richard Schickel
– unique featurette « The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry, » on the influence and legacy of Dirty Harry
– « Dirty Harry: The Unique, » with Clint Eastwood and the film’s creators looking wait on at the creation of the Dirty Harry character
– « Dirty Harry’s Device, » a promotional short focusing on the toughness of the movie’s main character
– interview gallery, with Patricia Clarkson, Joel Cox, Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Evan Kim, John Milius, Ted Post, Andy Robinson, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert Urich
– « Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso, » a 1993 TV program on his life and career, including scenes from his work and interviews with friends, fellow actors and crew members
– trailer gallery: Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact and The Slow Pool
Magnum Force Deluxe Edition
As the sequel to a classic film, it suffers some from the let-downs typical of sequels, but it’s detached Clint Eastwood being a tough guy, which is enough to carry the merely average location and script and create it beneficial entertainment for Eastwood fans. I’d say that applies to all four sequels.
In this installment, Harry, the cop frustrated by the rules that have him help, shows he has his limits when he goes up against wrong vigilante cops killing criminals without any due process. As in the first movie, there’s plenty of action, a car plod, suspense, people getting shot, etc.
Special features:
– modern commentary by director and Magnum Force screenwriter John Milius (« in this gritty, racy commentary, legendary Hollywood screenwriter Milius discusses Eastwood, the world of Dirty Harry and the rugged resilience of crime drama in American cinema »)
– fresh featurette « A Factual Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry, » with filmmakers, social scientists and authors on the politics and ethics of the Dirty Harry films
– « The Hero Cop: Yesterday and Today »
– trailer gallery
The Enforcer Deluxe Edition
In this installment, Harry, the renegade cop with some aged attitudes and no desire to be tied up with a partner, gets stuck with a female partner, well played by Tyne Daly. Surprise surprise, he learns to respect and rely on her as they earn hamburger of a group of domestic terrorists. As in the first two movies, there’s plenty of action, suspense, people getting shot, etc., but with a slither on foot in set of the usual car creep.
Special features:
– novel commentary by Enforcer director James Fargo
– original featurette « The Business End: Violence in Cinema »
– « Harry Callahan/Clint Eastwood: Something Special in Films »
– trailer gallery
Sudden Impact Deluxe Edition
Sudden Impact inspires very mixed reactions, but it’s quiet Clint Eastwood in a classic role, this time with Sondra Locke, his partner in several films and off-screen. Some people abhor Locke, but I judge she’s obliging with Eastwood. (I liked them even more in the Dirty Harryish Gauntlet and the very un-Dirty-Harry Bronco Billy.)
Harry is on forced leave for being his usual trouble-making self while getting the awful guys, but smooth finds himself in the middle of a string of murders that he undertakes to finish. As in a couple of the others in the series, this movie includes a myth line where extralegal justice is an say, as Locke’s damaged rape victim seeks revenge. With the usual action, shootings, and a high level of violence, with women getting their section.
This one is the source of the notorious quote, « Go ahead, originate my day. » It was directed by Eastwood.
– novel commentary by filmmaker and Eastwood associate/biographer Richard Schickel
– modern featurette « The Evolution of Clint Eastwood, » on the film in the context of Eastwood’s career as a director
– trailer gallery
The Dumb Pool Deluxe Edition
The Tiresome Pool was fair well received, considering its set in the series. It has a convoluted dwelling about a game in which bets are taken on the deaths of celebrities, including Harry, with young Liam Neeson playing a questionable film director who’s playing the game. Issues of the celebrity-enslaved press are mixed with romance as Harry dates a reporter. As always, there’s plenty of action, suspense, gun play, and, this time, a fresh and hilarious car roam with a very cramped but hazardous car.
– unusual commentary by Lifeless Pool producer David Valdes and Monotonous Pool cinematographer Jack N. Green
– novel Featurette « The Craft of Dirty Harry, » including the cinematography, editing, music, and production beget of the Dirty Harry films
– trailer gallery
The Ultimate editions will gain all of the above features, plus some:
– the feature-length documentary Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (which has been and is available separately)
– 40+ page hardcover book
– wallet with metal badge and removable ID card
– five 5″ x 7″ lobby poster reproduction cards and an uncommon Ultimate Collector’s Edition card
– « Scorpio: Portrait of a Killer » 19″ x 27″ intention of San Francisco detailing Harry’s hunt for the killer in the first film
– never-before-seen production correspondence
The Out of the Shadows documentary is a mountainous bonus (87 minutes) for the Ultimate edition. You can win it separately fine cheap faded, though. There’s an Amazon page for it, with reviews, here.
WB have proven they know how to release classic titles with their exceptional multi-disc offerings from Astaire/Rogers and the Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind and FORD/WAYNE etc etc…and now they have brought that same agreeable packaging and extras to a grand more recent series DIRTY HARRY.
All the movies sight distinguished better than ever before …maybe even better than they did in movie theatres. Previous extras are included …so no need to maintain extinct editions and each movie has consuming and like a flash lively featurettes of approximately a half hour that do add considerably to the enjoyment factor. I’ve only listened to a couple of the commentaries…they all have modern ones. Professional Eastwood brown nose…er biographer Richard « windbag » Schickel doesn’t add remarkable to Dirty Harry…but John Milius as insane as ever is a hoot on Magnum Force. I’m hoping the commentary on The Enforcer is pleasurable as its by the director…we have the aforementioned Schickel succor kissing butt on Sudden Impact so I’m not expecting enlightenment there.
Should you retract this box instead of the individual movies? …its a exiguous better sign to occupy them this arrangement but the individual movies have such frigid graphics and packaging. There is a untrue badge in this place AND an exceptional documentary on Clint Eastwood « Out of the Shadows » that all honest Clint fans owned already but IS included here…as well as mini theatre one sheets and a very nice letter from Clint about the series…
tough call…oh and a nice book with photos and brief notes…so the whole package takes up about the same place as the individual DVDs for those wondering about shelf area.
THe movies themselves are terminate to the heart of baby boomers like myself who may have liked John Wayne when we were kids but as we became high schoolers and grew up Clint was/is OUR guy. There is a runt decline in quality from movie to movie during the series as Clint ages and the writing has to get more cute lines for him to toss off …but I enjoyed them all and mild do …with the possible exception of the Tiresome Pool…which is now more of a curiosity to me.
Bottom line…if you like Clint/Harry …you will be tickled with the quality of prints, extras and packaging. In fact its so edifying I’m getting tempted to upgrade to blu-ray and collect the state in that format!
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