

When a young rape victim takes justice into her own hands and becomes a serial killer, it's up to Dirty Harry Callahan, on suspension from the SFPD, to bring her to justice.
Direction
Eastwood's confident, economical staging of lurid material.
Writing
That line. You know the one. He wrote it himself.

Director
Clint Eastwood
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Eastwood ad-libbed 'Go ahead, make my day' during rehearsal; it wasn't in the original script. Reagan later quoted it in a 1985 tax speech.
This is the only Dirty Harry film directed by Eastwood himself, and the only one where Harry has a sustained romantic subplot—conveniently with Eastwood's real-life partner Sondra Locke.