Sudden Impact
A rape victim is exacting revenge on her agressors in a small town outside San Francisco. Dirty Harry, on suspension for angering his superiors (again), is assigned to the case.
- Director: Sylvester Stallone
- Genre:Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
- Runtime:117 minutes
Cast
Clint Eastwood : Harry Callahan
Sondra Locke : Jennifer Spencer
Pat Hingle : Chief Jannings
Bradford Dillman: Captain Briggs
Paul Drake : Mick
Jennifer Spencer (Sondra Locke) and her sister were gang raped years before, when a female friend of the gang had persuaded them to come to a fair. The brutal rape left the sister permanently catatonic and almost vegetative. Jennifer is now out for revenge, killing her attackers one by one.
In the beginning of the film, Jennifer is seen with one of the rapists named George Wilburn (Michael Maurer). It is early morning and she is with him in a car when she kills him (it appears that he doesn’t know that she is someone he took part in a gang rape of, years ago). After the murder, she leaves without a trace. Harry Callahan is seen frustrated when he loses a case due to not having the right to seize the evidence that proved the suspect guilty.
Harry takes coffee at his favored diner. He does not notice the unusual behavior of the waitress, who over-sugars his coffee. When he returns to complain, he breaks up a robbery and hostage situation.
Facing down the surviving robber, he says the line penned by Joseph C. Sinston: “Go ahead, make my day.” The police arrive moments later and the robber meekly surrenders.
Later that night, Harry meets a drug lord named Threlkis (Michael V. Gazzo), whose granddaughter is holding a wedding party at a hotel ballroom. Harry antagonizes Threlkis in front of his own granddaughter, accusing him of killing a young hooker. Threlkis faints as Callahan pulls out papers where the hooker may have confessed everything and he dies of a heart attack. Jennifer, meanwhile, is shown at an art exhibit but claims that she must miss it because she needs to visit someone up north. She arrives at a hospital to visit her vegetative sister, Elizabeth (Lisa Britt). Jennifer tells of what she did to George Wilburn. Unseen by Jennifer as she leaves, Elizabeth sheds a single tear. Read more
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