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The Enforcer

1976 • 1h 36m •
Crime Action Thriller Drama
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★ 6.7/10
1,027 reviews
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The Enforcer

Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.

"The dirtiest Harry of them all."

Top Billed Cast

Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
Insp. Harry Callahan
Tyne Daly
Tyne Daly
Insp. Kate Moore
Harry Guardino
Harry Guardino
Lt. Al Bressler
Bradford Dillman
Bradford Dillman
Captain McKay
John Mitchum
John Mitchum
Frank DiGiorgio
DeVeren Bookwalter
DeVeren Bookwalter
Bobby Maxwell
John Crawford
John Crawford
The Mayor
Samantha Doane
Samantha Doane
Wanda

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

A Andres Gomez Verified TMDB Critic
2016-03-21

Probably the worst of all the Dirty Harry movies.

The only interesting and innovative point in this one is that we have a woman as Harry's partner. Eastwood keeps nailing his role but that's about it.

A foreseeable plot with quite a mediocre development.

Probably, the best in this one is the music....

J John Chard Verified TMDB Critic
2019-06-07

Here's a seven-point suppository!

The Enforcer is directed by James Fargo and collectively written by Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink, Stirling Silliphant, Dean Riesner, Gail Morgan Hickman and S.W. Schurr. It stars Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman, DeVeren Bookwalter and John Mitchum. Music is by Jerry Fielding and cinematography by Charles W. Short.

Dirty Harry Callahan is tasked with foiling a terrorist organization made up of supposed revolutionaries. However, when he's partnered by a rookie female cop he's far from best pleased and feels sure she's out of...

R r96sk Verified TMDB Critic
2022-01-18

Not as enjoyable as the first two, but <em>'The Enforcer'</em> still entertains.

Clint Eastwood is again excellent in reprising the role of Harry Callahan, while the support cast is spearheaded by the likes of Tyne Daly and Harry Guardino. I don't really have much to say that's different from the 1971 and 1973 films, in that it's a fun flick that is paced well; even if, again, it is a drop from its two predecessors....

C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic
2025-07-20

“If she wants to play lumberjack, she’s going to have to get used to handling her end of the log!”. Sadly, that’s about as pithy as his one-liners get in this rather flat outing for “Callaghan” (Clint Eastwood). This time he is saddled with rookie “Moore” (Tyne Daly) and put on a case to track down some brutal mercenaries from a people’s revolutionary strike force who robbed an arms factory and then have only gone and kidnapped they mayor. No great loss, you might think, but the city’s problem is made worse because their most inept Captain “McKay” (Bradford Dillman) has...