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Warner Home Video has announced the details of current releases of all five Dirty Harry movies with original special features. They’ll all be in their current widescreen formats only.

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They will be available on standard DVD in this 7-disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition, or separately in Special or Deluxe editions. (“Special” is better than “deluxe” here–only Dirty Harry gets a 2-disc Special Edition, the others will all be on single discs, but all will have modern special features.) Links for the separate DVDs are below.

They’ll also be on Blu-ray in a 5-disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition. Only the Dirty Harry Special Edition will be available separately on Blu-ray. The other four movies will only be available on Blu-ray as portion of the complete site. (They won’t be available in HD, which Warner officially discontinues at the destroy of May.)

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Assuming the transfers are beneficial (update: everyone says the transfers are generous, better than the customary ones), this looks like an marvelous site. Whether those with older DVD releases will want to upgrade will be a matter of personal preference, but I personally bag the modern commentaries and features very beautiful.

Here’s a bit about each film and the special features, contained in both the separate releases and the sets. The Ultimate Editions will also include some additional features, listed further below.

Dirty Harry Special Edition

Dirty Harry is generally regarded as a classic, the beginning of a second larger-than-life persona for Clint Eastwood (after The Man with No Name) . It’s the source of the famed “Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk? ” (The trusty quote is “… you’ve got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk? ” but the unusual doesn’t quote as well out of context.)

Tough cop “Dirty” Harry Callahan has his maintain simple, commonsense rules for dealing with crime, based on a strong sense of lawful and tainted and an impatience with needless details and constraints. The latter gets him into continual anguish with the system which, as portrayed in the movie, is more about politics and bureaucracy than doing what needs to be done. This reflected well the frustrations and fears of Americans in the ’70s that criminals were taking over the streets and that the law was powerless to finish them because the “criminal-coddling” courts were holding them support. I personally value the Fourth Amendment and other such niceties and shiver to consider of some of the political and apt ramifications of this movie (some of which are smooth very distinguished with us), but whatever one’s politics, Dirty Harry is very effective as a police-action thriller, largely because of Eastwood’s unusual persona. It’s hard not to care for and root for him even if you consider he’s not always moral. There are also the standard gunfights and car chases, and high suspense, all well done.

In the films that followed in the series, Harry became a somewhat more balanced, complex or confusing character, depending on your point of concept, coming down clearly on the side of the law against rogue vigilante cops, for example, and learning to bask in a female cop as a partner, but the basic view of Harry standing strong despite the sinister, wimpy system remained.

I’m tickled to observe that some of the unique special features in the spot deal with the “issues” raised by the Dirty Harry films. I gawk forward to seeing what others construct of them.

The special features:

– fresh commentary by filmmaker and Eastwood associate/biographer Richard Schickel

– recent featurette “The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry,” on the influence and legacy of Dirty Harry

– “Dirty Harry: The Modern,” with Clint Eastwood and the film’s creators looking succor at the creation of the Dirty Harry character

– “Dirty Harry’s Device,” a promotional short focusing on the toughness of the movie’s main character

– interview gallery, with Patricia Clarkson, Joel Cox, Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Evan Kim, John Milius, Ted Post, Andy Robinson, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert Urich

– “Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso,” a 1993 TV program on his life and career, including scenes from his work and interviews with friends, fellow actors and crew members

– trailer gallery: Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact and The Dumb Pool

Magnum Force Deluxe Edition

As the sequel to a classic film, it suffers some from the let-downs typical of sequels, but it’s unruffled Clint Eastwood being a tough guy, which is enough to carry the merely average region and script and effect it helpful entertainment for Eastwood fans. I’d say that applies to all four sequels.

In this installment, Harry, the cop frustrated by the rules that beget him abet, shows he has his limits when he goes up against deplorable vigilante cops killing criminals without any due process. As in the first movie, there’s plenty of action, a car hobble, suspense, people getting shot, etc.

Special features:

– unique commentary by director and Magnum Force screenwriter John Milius (“in this gritty, captivating commentary, legendary Hollywood screenwriter Milius discusses Eastwood, the world of Dirty Harry and the rugged resilience of crime drama in American cinema”)

– fresh featurette “A Accurate Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry,” with filmmakers, social scientists and authors on the politics and ethics of the Dirty Harry films

– “The Hero Cop: Yesterday and Today”

– trailer gallery

The Enforcer Deluxe Edition

In this installment, Harry, the renegade cop with some ancient attitudes and no desire to be tied up with a partner, gets stuck with a female partner, well played by Tyne Daly. Surprise surprise, he learns to respect and rely on her as they beget hamburger of a group of domestic terrorists. As in the first two movies, there’s plenty of action, suspense, people getting shot, etc., but with a go on foot in set of the usual car mosey.

Special features:

– novel commentary by Enforcer director James Fargo

– unique featurette “The Business End: Violence in Cinema”

– “Harry Callahan/Clint Eastwood: Something Special in Films”

– trailer gallery

Sudden Impact Deluxe Edition

Sudden Impact inspires very mixed reactions, but it’s aloof Clint Eastwood in a classic role, this time with Sondra Locke, his partner in several films and off-screen. Some people dislike Locke, but I consider she’s respectable with Eastwood. (I liked them even more in the Dirty Harryish Gauntlet and the very un-Dirty-Harry Bronco Billy.)

Harry is on forced leave for being his usual trouble-making self while getting the terrible guys, but composed finds himself in the middle of a string of murders that he undertakes to end. As in a couple of the others in the series, this movie includes a narrative line where extralegal justice is an swear, as Locke’s damaged rape victim seeks revenge. With the usual action, shootings, and a high level of violence, with women getting their allotment.

This one is the source of the eminent quote, “Go ahead, effect my day.” It was directed by Eastwood.

– fresh commentary by filmmaker and Eastwood associate/biographer Richard Schickel

– recent featurette “The Evolution of Clint Eastwood,” on the film in the context of Eastwood’s career as a director

– trailer gallery

The Monotonous Pool Deluxe Edition

The Listless Pool was glowing well received, considering its state in the series. It has a convoluted region about a game in which bets are taken on the deaths of celebrities, including Harry, with young Liam Neeson playing a questionable film director who’s playing the game. Issues of the celebrity-enslaved press are mixed with romance as Harry dates a reporter. As always, there’s plenty of action, suspense, gun play, and, this time, a original and hilarious car swagger with a very cramped but perilous car.

– modern commentary by Boring Pool producer David Valdes and Listless Pool cinematographer Jack N. Green

– recent Featurette “The Craft of Dirty Harry,” including the cinematography, editing, music, and production make of the Dirty Harry films

– trailer gallery

The Ultimate editions will believe all of the above features, plus some:

– the feature-length documentary Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (which has been and is available separately)

– 40+ page hardcover book

– wallet with metal badge and removable ID card

– five 5″ x 7″ lobby poster reproduction cards and an irregular Ultimate Collector’s Edition card

– “Scorpio: Portrait of a Killer” 19″ x 27″ plan of San Francisco detailing Harry’s hunt for the killer in the first film

– never-before-seen production correspondence

The Out of the Shadows documentary is a broad bonus (87 minutes) for the Ultimate edition. You can derive it separately pleasing cheap venerable, though. There’s an Amazon page for it, with reviews, here.

WB have proven they know how to release classic titles with their exceptional multi-disc offerings from Astaire/Rogers and the Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind and FORD/WAYNE etc etc…and now they have brought that same agreeable packaging and extras to a distinguished more recent series DIRTY HARRY.

All the movies inspect noteworthy better than ever before …maybe even better than they did in movie theatres. Previous extras are included …so no need to hold weak editions and each movie has inviting and like a flash challenging featurettes of approximately a half hour that do add considerably to the enjoyment factor. I’ve only listened to a couple of the commentaries…they all have novel ones. Professional Eastwood brown nose…er biographer Richard “windbag” Schickel doesn’t add distinguished to Dirty Harry…but John Milius as insane as ever is a hoot on Magnum Force. I’m hoping the commentary on The Enforcer is agreeable as its by the director…we have the aforementioned Schickel help kissing butt on Sudden Impact so I’m not expecting enlightenment there.

Should you consume this box instead of the individual movies? …its a limited better effect to catch them this blueprint but the individual movies have such frigid graphics and packaging. There is a spurious badge in this space AND an exceptional documentary on Clint Eastwood “Out of the Shadows” that all moral Clint fans owned already but IS included here…as well as mini theatre one sheets and a very nice letter from Clint about the series…

tough call…oh and a nice book with photos and brief notes…so the whole package takes up about the same station as the individual DVDs for those wondering about shelf area.

THe movies themselves are terminate to the heart of baby boomers like myself who may have liked John Wayne when we were kids but as we became high schoolers and grew up Clint was/is OUR guy. There is a miniature decline in quality from movie to movie during the series as Clint ages and the writing has to regain more cute lines for him to toss off …but I enjoyed them all and smooth do …with the possible exception of the Plain Pool…which is now more of a curiosity to me.

Bottom line…if you like Clint/Harry …you will be satisfied with the quality of prints, extras and packaging. In fact its so excellent I’m getting tempted to upgrade to blu-ray and gain the status in that format!
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