The Enforcer
Short description
In San Francisco, a group of armed extremists carries out robberies and killings while trying to force the city to meet its demands. When the violence escalates and the mayor is taken, the police turn to Inspector Harry Callahan. His unconventional methods have already landed him in trouble with his superiors, and as a further consequence he is assigned a female partner, Inspector Kate Moore. The two pursue the group behind the attacks while Harry's initial reluctance toward working with her gradually changes.
This is the third film in the Dirty Harry series, with Clint Eastwood returning as the title character. It was directed by James Fargo, who made it as his first feature before going on to direct Every Which Way but Loose and Forced Vengeance. The screenplay is by Stirling Silliphant and Dean Riesner, and Robert Daley produced. Tyne Daly plays Kate Moore, with Harry Guardino as Lieutenant Bressler, Bradford Dillman as Captain McKay and DeVeren Bookwalter as the group's leader, Bobby Maxwell, among a credited cast of forty-nine.
Made for a budget of nine million dollars, the film took in about forty-six million worldwide. Its ratings stand at 6.7 from over forty-eight thousand votes on IMDb and 6.7 from roughly a thousand votes on TMDB, broadly in line with the critics' score of 6.2 from thirty-nine reviews. The three scores suggest a reception that is steady rather than enthusiastic.
What's left behind the scenes
- The screenplay was initially titled “Moving Target,” then upon launching the film into production it received the title “Dirty Harry 3,” and only later did it become “The Enforcer.” Eastwood stated that he did so as a tribute to his favorite film of the same name from 1951 starring Humphrey Bogart.
- The screenwriters couldn’t manage to get their work to Eastwood, but they managed to catch him in the actor’s hometown, Carmel (where he would later become mayor), at his favorite diner where Clint liked to grab a bite.
- The third Dirty Harry film turned out to be one of the most violent – 13 corpses in ninety minutes of screen time.
- According to Marc Eliot, Clint Eastwood's biographer, screenwriter Stirling Silliphant suggested actress Tyne Daly for the role of Kate Moore. She rejected the offer to appear in the film three times before finally agreeing. She also suggested removing the romantic subplot between her character and Dirty Harry from the script. Eastwood himself did not object to this proposal.
- Stirling Silliphant had already been working on the script for the third Dirty Harry film, in which the protagonist, played by Clint Eastwood, would have a partner of Asian descent. Clint liked the idea in general, but in his opinion, the script lacked dynamism. He showed Silliphant a script written by Gayle Morgan Hickman as an example, and Silliphant agreed to rewrite it. The revised script still lacked dynamism, and Dean Riesner was brought into the process.
- According to director James Fargo, the kick delivered to Clint Eastwood's character in the scene with the armed robber in the store was improvised.
- One of the four Dirty Harry films, and the only one in which the character played by Albert Popwell is neither killed nor wounded.
- When the mechanic is forced to open the drawbridge, the long-barreled black revolver is replaced by a short-barreled silver one.
- While Dirty Harry is chasing Tim Barrus's character across the rooftops, a man (a crew member) can be seen standing on one of the roofs in the background. By the time Clint Eastwood's character reaches that spot, the roof is empty.
- During filming at Alcatraz, a crowd of onlookers and tourists watching the water cannon scene accidentally appeared in the shot.
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