Brian Keith, Ernest Borgnine, Suzanne Pleshette and Tony Curtis head a "first-rate cast" (Motion Picture Herald) in this "sharp, amusing" (The New York Times) comedy that pits the fed-up brass of an Army base against the fired up citizens of a nearby town!
You remember Dirty Harry. He's the hard-boiled San Francisco homicide detective who thinks bad guys get off too easy, so he is out to punish them his way. But Harry isn't the only one with a score to settle. Relentless rogue cop "Dirty Harry" Callahan finds himself chasing a ritualistic killer to a rural Northern California town. When Harry is spinning his wheels, it's his new partner Horace Kind that steers him in the right direction. Together, they race to catch the killer in a head-on collision of good vs. evil.
Following the events in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", Cornelius and Zira flee back through time to 20th Century Los Angeles, where they face persecution similar to what Taylor suffered in the future, and discover the origins of the stream of events that will shape their world. The importance of this movie is clear at the end, as we realize how the Planet of the Apes began.
Trapped by his image in 1976, Clint Eastwood resurrected his Dirty Harry character for a third go-round (out of a total of five) in this potboiler story in which the San Francisco detective takes on a group of revolutionary kids. Tyne Daly costars as a female cop who partners with the reluctant Harry Callahan, and she does very well by a role created merely to underscore and articulate the hero's various virtues. Inside the wrapping are good performances by the two leads.
