The Enforcer
Dirty Harry must foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans. But this time, he’s teamed with a rookie female partner that he’s not too excited to be working with.
- Director: James Fargo
- Genre:Action / Crime / Thriller
- Runtime:97 minutes
Cast
Clint Eastwood : Insp. ‘Dirty’ Harry Callahan
Tyne Daly : Insp. Kate Moore
Harry Guardino : Lt. Al Bressler
Bradford Dillman: Capt. McKay
John Mitchum : Insp. Frank DiGiorgio
The film opens as two gas company men are lured by a scantily-clad lady to a remote spot and killed by a man, Bobby Maxwell (DeVeren Bookwalter). Maxwell’s gang, The People’s Revolutionary Strike Force (PRSF), later use the gas men’s uniforms and vehicle in a heist.
Meanwhile, Inspector Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) and his partner, Frank DiGeorgio (John Mitchum), are dispatched to a liquor store where a few men have taken four hostages. The standoff ends when Harry drives his squad car into the store and shoots up the gang. Back at the station, Harry is reprimanded for his ‘Excessive use of force’, the expenses on injured hostages and damage to the store and to his squad car, by his superior Captain McKay (Bradford Dillman), and is transferred from the Homicide unit to Personnel. Harry is part of judging the interview process for new inspectors the next day. Being told that three of eight new positions are going to be female, including Inspector Kate Moore (Tyne Daly), who has worked in Personnel for nine years, with no experience in homicide, having made no arrests nor having ever been in any violent situations, Harry is disapproving of her potential promotion to Inspector.
That night, the PRSF use the stolen gas service van to enter a U.S. Army weapons storage facility to steal weapons in support of their political goals. Meanwhile, DiGeorgio and another police officer find a dead guard at the facility and DiGeorgio looks around the warehouse for any suspicious activity. He eventually finds the terrorists and holds them at gunpoint, but Maxwell stabs him in the back. As he is collapsing, DiGeorgio shoots a female member of the gang. Despite protests of another gang member, Maxwell finishes her off and leaves DiGeorgio for dead.
The next morning at the hospital, with his last breath, DiGeorgio tells Callahan that the men were involved in a case several years before with “cutesy-pie, little boy names.” DiGeorgio then dies of his stab wound. Inspector Moore is assigned as Harry’s partner. Later in the day, a bomb explodes in the Hall of Justice and Callahan and Moore chase the PRSF bomber through the streets. Callahan obtains the help of Uhuru, the black militant group’s leader “Big” Ed Mustapha (Albert Popwell), where the bomber had been a former member. Captain McKay later arrests the militants, as they are accused of the terrorist acts. Read more
