Sudden Impact
Short description
Harry Callahan is a San Francisco homicide detective known for ignoring procedure and for the enemies he makes among his superiors. After a killing carried out in his usual fashion, the department suspends him, then sends him out of the city to look into a murder in the coastal town of San Paulo. There he meets Jennifer Spencer, a solitary artist, and comes to suspect that a series of killings of local men is connected to a sexual assault committed years earlier. The victims are shot in ways that echo what was done to her, and the town's police force has little interest in helping an outsider.
Clint Eastwood directs and stars, his tenth film as director in chronological order, following Honkytonk Man and preceding Pale Rider. He also produced through Malpaso Productions with Warner Bros. Pictures. Sondra Locke plays Jennifer Spencer, with Pat Hingle as Chief Jannings, Bradford Dillman as Captain Briggs, Paul Drake as Mick and Audrie Neenan as Ray Parkins among a credited cast of 52. Dean Riesner and Joseph Stinson wrote the screenplay. It runs 117 minutes and belongs to the action, crime, drama and thriller genres.
Made for about 22 million dollars, it took roughly 150 million worldwide, a strong return for a film of its scale. On IMDb it holds 6.6 out of 10 from 47,786 votes, and on TMDB 6.5 out of 10 from 1,041 votes, while the critics' rating stands at 5.6 out of 10 from 41 reviews, so audiences have rated it somewhat higher than critics did.
What's left behind the scenes
- The famous phrase from the film "Go Ahead, Make My Day" (originally in English) was used by US President Ronald Reagan in a speech in which he threatened to veto a tax increase bill.
- The script was originally written for Sondra Locke and had nothing to do with Dirty Harry. At the time, she was losing her status as an actress who appeared exclusively in leading roles and was desperately trying to remedy the situation. No studio was willing to take on or finance the project, so Joseph Stinson reworked the script by Earl E. Smith and Charles B. Pierce into a Dirty Harry film. Locke played Jennifer Spencer in the movie.
- Sondra Locke turned 39 during filming. She threw a party right on the set and told all the guests that she was only 33.
- After filming concluded, Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke named one of their parrots after the dog from the movie.
- Many actors who auditioned before filming were not told that the movie would be about Dirty Harry. In the script they were given for the auditions, Harry Callahan's name had been replaced with "Donnelly."
- During the filming of the pier scene where Dirty Harry shoots the villain, a diver was present nearby. Whenever the gun misfired (which happened frequently), Clint Eastwood would swear loudly and hurl the weapon into the water. The diver would retrieve it, and the weapon would then be dried, repaired, and reloaded for the next take.
- This marks the fourth and final appearance of Albert Popwell in the Dirty Harry franchise. He played a different character in each film: a bank robber in Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood, 1971), a pimp in Magnum Force (Ted Post, 1973), Mustafa in The Enforcer (James Fargo, 1976), and Horace King in this film.
- In the scene where the character played by Albert Popwell gets out of the car upon arriving to meet Harry, who is about to do some target practice in the woods, one of the cameras is clearly reflected in the rear window, as is Clint Eastwood's son, who had come to the set to visit him.
- When Sondra Locke's character approaches a woman in a purple dress at the exhibition, the reflections of two crew members are visible in the plexiglass on the right, one of whom is director Clint Eastwood.
- The film ends with shots of a carousel. As the final credits begin, the camera zooms out, revealing that the roller coaster and the carousel are located quite far apart. In other words, a person cannot fall from the roller coaster directly onto the carousel.
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