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Sudden Impact
A rape victim is exacting revenge on her aggressors in a small town outside San Francisco. 'Dirty' Harry Callahan, on suspension for angering his superiors (again), is assigned to the case.
















15 July 1926, New York City, New York, USA

24 June 1937, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA



12 June 1946, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, UK


1 January 1942, Berlin, Germany

20 May 1930, Rennert, North Carolina, USA

20 December 1960, Brooklyn, New York, USA


7 November 1955, San Francisco, California, USA

30 June 1957, Santa Monica, California, USA

14 April 1930, San Francisco, California, USA

3 January 1930, Santa Monica, California, USA

24 July 1928, Kingston, New York, USA

16 January 1935, Charleston, West Virginia, USA

12 November 1918, Paducah, Kentucky, USA

27 October 1943, Sharon, Pennsylvania, USA

10 June 1927, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA



20 December 1944, Waterloo, Iowa, USA


31 May 1930, San Francisco, California, USA




May 21, 2010
...stretches the believability factor to the limit, with a story that is all over the map.
March 15, 2008
Sadly, Clint was still sleeping with Sandra Locke and giving her work! The worse of the "Dirty Harry" films...didn't "make my day"
June 18, 2009
The film lags whenever Eastwood isn't on screen, but even his dryly humorous patter can't offset the very sour, mean tone of the rest of the film.
December 11, 2013
Considering that Sudden Impact delivers one of the most memorable lines in movie history, it's surprising how forgettable the rest of it is.
April 02, 2010
A study of the Dirty Harry macho drive, worked out lucidly by the filmmaker and his avenging muse
October 23, 2004
To all those cowboy movies we saw in our youth, all those TV Westerns and cop dramas and war movies, Dirty Harry has brought a great simplification: A big man, a big gun, a bad guy and instant justice.
August 20, 2012
At times like a traffic jam of different stories and characters crossing paths back and forth for almost two hours, and there isn't too much tension to go with it.
April 30, 2009
It is viewed by many aficionados as the best of the five movies about the hard-nosed, authority-defying San Francisco cop.
May 20, 2003
By my count, more than a dozen people are murdered on camera, about half by Miss Locke and most of the others by Mr. Eastwood. This gives them something in common as lovers.
August 30, 2016
'80s cop-drama sequel has rape, murder, revenge.
June 24, 2006
Eastwood the star needed a hit to bolster his flagging ratings; now that he's got it, maybe Harry will be put out to stud, with his Magnum.
March 26, 2009
This is the first entry in the series to have been directed by Eastwood himself, and action is put over with great force, if also with some obviousness.