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	The Enforcer (1976 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Enforcer (1976) is the third film in the Dirty Harry series.
		During the film's climax - the militants were hiding on Alcatraz Island - this was based on the real-life occupation of the island by Native Americans back in 1969.
		Throughout the film - several characters are referring to the LAW Rocket - the LAW Rocket is the real-life M72 anti-tank weapon.
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	Enforcer (Charles L. Delazny Jr., Ghost Rider/Spider-Woman foe)
		The Enforcer brought Spider-Woman back to his hideout and put her in a cage, where she soon regained her eyesight, freed herself, and was about to take them by surprise when her partner, criminologist Scotty McDowell, showed up to rescue her, but was promptly shot by the Enforcer.
		When the Enforcer told her to buzz off because he didn’t have anything for her, the bag lady replied, “But I have something for you!” and shot him through the chest with a shotgun she had concealed under her coat.
		The original Enforcer (Delazny) was an agent of a foreign power and a would-be mob boss who used a disintegration weapon and a secret high-tech headquarters in his attempt to control the local criminal underworld.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix2/enforcerdelaznysolo.htm (8905 words)

	MSN Encarta - Clint Eastwood
		Eastwood became a film star with his role as a hired killer in the movie Per un pugno di dollari (made in Italian by director Sergio Leone and dubbed in English as A Fistful of Dollars, 1964).
		The film is part of a genre known as a spaghetti Western, referring to its Italian origins.
		During this period the actor moved from cowboy films to urban dramas, finding popular acclaim in his role as the hard-bitten, law-bending police officer Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry (1971) and its sequels, Magnum Force (1973), The Enforcer (1976), Sudden Impact (1983, which he also directed and produced), and The Dead Pool (1988).
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	DVD Talk > Reviews > The Enforcer > Printer Friendly
		The Enforcer is the third of Eastwood's five outings as Dirty Harry, and though audiences may have gobbled up Callahan's unconventional style of law enforcement, his actions are a constant thorn in the side of his superiors.
		The shades of green and brown that appear throughout the film are of the sort that only existed in the 1970's, and though the palette overall seems somewhat muted, this is in keeping with the vast majority of similar efforts from the same era.
		Conclusion: The Enforcer may be the least favorite entry in the series, but it still mops up the floor with the innumerable imitations that Harry Callahan has wrought in the past thirty years.
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	The Enforcer (1976/I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		And beyond the action, it's a film that manages to make a valid statement about bureaucratic nonsense, as well as the lack of common sense employed by those ensconced in the budding agenda of `political correctness,' who put an emphasis on image over purpose and results.
		Initially, the film takes something of a patronizing attitude toward her, but Harry treats her as an equal from the beginning, and in the end, Inspector Moore emerges as a strong character, gender aside.
		A well made and entertaining film, `The Enforcer' keeps the `Dirty Harry' series alive, well and on solid ground; in retrospect, it seems a shame now that Eastwood waited seven years to make the next installment, `Sudden Impact,' as with the dreadful `The Dead Pool' in 1988, it all ended with barely a whimper.
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	DVDActive - Reviews - DVD - Enforcer, The (AU - R4)
		Blacks are solid and thankfully the night scenes were filmed with enough backlighting to highlight the important details.
		Film artefacts are few and far between and the image is relatively sharp and clear.
		The dialogue is decipherable throughout the film and the music keeps you bopping with a funky double-bass line that'll make your safari suit fall down around your ankles.
	www.dvdactive.com /reviews/dvd/enforcer-the.html (937 words)

	What Do You Mean by "Violence"? - Counting the bodies is a dumb way to rate movies. By Jacob Weisberg
		Typical of this type of drama is the 1976 film The Enforcer, a sequel to Dirty Harry.
		Indeed, the only difference between this kind of slasher film and snuff films is that no animals are harmed in the making of the former.
		The two films cited most often are Heathers, in which Christian Slater is foiled in an attempt to detonate his school, and The Basketball Diaries, in which Leonardo DiCaprio fantasizes about gunning down his classmates and a priest Terminator-style while his buddies cheer.
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	dOc DVD Review: The Enforcer (1976)
		As the film opens, Harry Callahan is not only in trouble at work yet again, but a group of crazed, so-called "revolutionaries" are making plans to go on a rampage of chaosthroughout San Francisco as some kind of extremist political statement.
		I suppose in 1976, the incredibly weak portrayal of a semi-inept female police officer was thought of as "broad minded" because it was better than nothing, but it falls on the offensive side by today's standards.
		The Enforcer is, in my opinion, the last of the tolerable Harry Callahan movies, and what a strange ride it is. While it lacks some of the class of the previous two films, you can't go too wrong with this action flick...
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1895 (996 words)

	Encyclopedia: Clint Eastwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Unforgiven is a 1992 Western film which tells the story of a retired gunslinger who takes on one more job for the money.
		The film was nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Actor for Eastwood, and won four, including Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood.
		After much less successful films like The Rookie (1990) and Pink Cadillac (1989), it was fairly obvious Eastwood's star was declining as it never had before.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Clint-Eastwood (560 words)

	ENFORCER
		Being the first ever movie to use terminology like ‘contract’ and ‘hit’, The Enforcer is cinematic history-in-the-making, paralleling early sightings of forensic mainstays like identikit portraits (1948’s He Walked By Night) and victim profiling (1950’s Mystery Street) from the same era.
		This is underlined with unintended humor in separate early scenes when rooms full of cops and hoods respectively each respond with stunned alarm to the ringing of a telephone in their supposedly secure sanctuaries.
		I can’t leave The Enforcer without noting its contribution to the expanding sub-strata of ‘barbershop death scenes’ which here, unlike in Murder By Contract, sees the tools of its own trade (razor, not firearms) evoke the threat, foreshadowing the reportedly very similar scene years later in 1988’s Mississippi Burning.
	www.crimeculture.com /Contents/FilmReviews/Enforcer.htm (585 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Enforcer (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"The Enforcer," Clint Eastwood's third (and, it's said, his last) film as Dirty Harry, gets off the hook by handling its killings more in terms of self defense and rescue operations, instead of as cold-blooded executions.
		It's also a more light-hearted film (although that may be hard to guess on the basis of the opening liquor store scene).
		At various points explosives are employed and the mayor is kidnapped, and there's a sensational shoot-out at Alcatraz during which Eastwood, who seems to enjoy a larger weapon in every movie, uses a hand held bazooka, But the best things in the movie are the scenes between Eastwood and Tyne Daly.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19761221/REVIEWS/612210301/1023 (762 words)

	The Enforcr by Charles D. Leyman
		These films not only promulgates a sophisticated form of hero worship that pretends not to take itself too seriously but also slips us (in the form of “entertainment,” naturally) reams of false information about the supposed reality of Harry’s (and, by extension, our) world.
		The film so enjoys patronizing and laughing at Daly’s character that it affords her “equal” status with Callahan only in the act of killing a man. In THE ENFORCER.
		In a film extolling the virtues of a fascistic personality in a society whose officials are hamstrung, the script’s equation of these terms with criminal behavior functions expressly to convince us that they are virtual synonyms.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC15folder/Enforcer.html (1496 words)

	Epinions.com - All One-hundred and Six BAFTA Award-Winning Films (with links to full reviews) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Eight of the films are not in the Epinions database.
		It is the ultimate backstage film, examining the egos and temperaments that abound in the theatrical environment.
		This film provides an embellished version of the true story of a woman named Anna Elizabeth Rosmus, who runs into a wall of resistance in the eighties when she tries to research the history of her hometown of Passau, in Bavaria, during World War II.
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	The Enforcer
		Bretaigne Windust is credited as the film's director, but he fell ill during the shoot and was replaced by Raoul Walsh, who is believed to have directed some key scenes, including the ending.
		But "The Enforcer" is an intense thriller inspired by intriguing events that were in recent memory when the film was made.
		THE ENFORCER is a cop show, a police procedural starring Humphrey Bogart as Martin Ferguson, the `hard-hitting' Brooklyn district attorney who cracked the Murder Incorporated syndicate.
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	Clint Eastwood
		In the third "Dollars" film, he found one of his trademark roles, in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo) (1966).
		The film has been credited with inventing the 'loose-cannon cop genre' that has been imitated even to this day.
		It was the fourth Dirty Harry film, Sudden Impact (1983) that made Eastwood a viable star for the eighties.
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	Amazon.com: Enforcer (1976) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In this interesting Dirty Harry film, Harry and company duel with a weird group of "revolutionaries." While the plot and characterization are compelling, the scenario gives rise to some questions.
		On the one hand the villains in "The Enforcer" are the weakest of any of the films in the series, but then the ELA is only Dirty Harry's target and not his opponent.
		Given how laughable the hippie revolutionaries are this film could have ended up being a big joke without her performance and the chemistry she has with the star, which is made all the more impressive by the fact that there is absolute nothing sexual about their relationship.
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	Amazon.com: Clint Eastwood / Movies (1976) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Enforcer and Dead Pool are the two films that are not Dual Layered, but in the case of The Enforcer that doesn't seem to affect the quality at all.
		All of the films have a Dolby 5.1.
		THE ENFORCER (1976) is the worst of the entire DH series, containing a ridiculous plot centering on underground revolutionary criminals (modeled on the SLA) with the subplot focused on the bantering exchanges between Callahan and his (female) partner (played by Tyne Daly).
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	Film History of the 1970s
		The success of blaxploitation films brought some opportunities for fls in the industry to work in Hollywood, although the vast majority of these films were still distributed, produced, and controlled by non-fls.
		The film, which won Brando a seventh Oscar nomination, was declared obscene by an Italian court in 1976.
		The film, a portrait of a family's disintegration, was less well-received.
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	Ziggy's Video Realm: Clint Eastwood is Dirty Harry in The Enforcer (1976) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		If there were suddenly a rule made in the film industry that as soon as one premise was used, it could never be used again, there would be no more movies.
		In terms of direction, The Enforcer is well paced (I simply don't buy into the arguments of slowness here), moving along at a reasonably steady rate with a good mix of action, chases (on foot), and character development.
		Originally, this film was meant to be the last one of all, leaving things at a trilogy; though I'm glad that there were in fact two more films made afterward, this would also have been a fine conclusion to the franchise.
	www.reelcriticism.com /ziggyrealm/reviews/enforcer.html (1321 words)

	A Fistful of Reviews - The Enforcer (1976)
		As far as that genre goes, "The Enforcer" is a well-done film.
		This time, Harry is assigned to kill, oh, sorry, arrest a group of radical militants who have stolen a bunch of weapons (including some rather nasty rocket launchers) and are threatening to raise all manner of havoc unless they are given a lot of money.
		As far as the villains of a Dirty Harry film go, they are pretty tame.
	www.afistfulofreviews.com /efgh/enforcer_dn.htm (506 words)

	The Port Washington Public Library Video Collection
		Unless otherwise noted, all Chinese films are in Chinese with English subtitles, and all American programs are in English.
		Tom Priestley's film was the first American documentary to be filmed in Communist China.
		A film by Johnny To and Ching Siu Tung.
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	The Enforcer (1976)
		Eastwood took the title from the Humphrey Bogart film of the same name (also owned by Warner Bros.), but was taken to court in 1980 by someone accusing him of plagiarizing it.
		This film marks one of Tyne Daly's first major film roles, although she almost didn't accept it.
		Eastwood originally intended this to be the last Dirty Harry film, leaving it at a trilogy.
	www.the-dirtiest.com /enforcer.htm (531 words)

	The Enforcer (1976)
		Clint maintained that he was inspired by the Humphrey Bogart film The Enforcer (which was also owned by Warner Bros).
		She reckons this film made her career, and went on to star in Cagney and Lacey.
		The film was made as part of a deal made with Warner Bros when Malpaso moved there from Universal (partly on account of the studio tour going right past the office door).
	www.clinteastwood.net /filmography/enforcer.htm (307 words)

	The Enforcer (1976) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		They are in an armoury, with guns, ammunition, and explosives all around, and they are firing guns at one another - I was waiting for an explosion, but none came.
		There is a little bit of shimmer, but a whole heap of aliasing on car doors, grilles, and Harry's jacket - perhaps it might have been better to make the transfer a little less sharp, to reduce the aliasing.
		The excerpts from the film are very grainy.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=673&SID=2&PID=219313 (992 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - The Enforcer (1976)
		Number three in the "Dirty Harry" series, The Enforcer equips macho cop Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) with a female assistant, Kate Moore (Tyne Daly).
		Their quarry is a terrorist organization which has kidnapped the mayor of San Francisco (John Crawford).
		The Enforcer cleared enough at the box office to warrant yet another "Dirty Harry" opus, Sudden Impact.
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	channel4.com - film - text only (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Were it not for the magnificent deadpan timing and Eastwood's terrific granite-jawed presence, The Enforcer would be laughable.
		Indeed, because this period of cop films is so parodied, the whole movie comes over like a sketch show and you almost expect the whole thing to end with a Police Squad-style freeze-frame.
		The weakest of the five Dirty Harry movies, The Enforcer has a preposterous plot that would have been better suited to an episode of The A Team.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film_t.jsp?id=103141 (282 words)

	The Bus Station - Buses on Screen - Films E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Towards the end of the film Eastwood and Daly meet in a bar as a GM Old Look passes outside.
		He also notes similar Bedford OB HOD75 "was also used during the filming of the shots where the staff changed over, but the director decided that the shot looked too busy with three vehicles, and so had me reverse out of shot onto the cutting room floor."
		Early in the film, brief shots of London LT-class AEC Renowns.
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	Dinky Dean Riesner with Charlie Chaplin
		The film was 'The Pilgrim' and it was Charlie Chaplin's last film he did under the First National contract.
		Riesner's first film starring Eastwood was the 1968 detective feature "Coogan's Bluff." He also wrote "Play Misty for Me" (1971), the "Dirty Harry" (1971) screenplay and "The Enforcer" (1976), a sequel to the Dirty Harry saga about a San Francisco police officer.
		Riesner, born in New York, was the son of silent film director Charles Riesner.
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