Magnum Force (1973) Magnum Force
See also: _Index | Dirty Harry (1971)
Director: Ted Post Screenplay: John Milius and Michael Cimino (story by Milius) Producer: Robert Daley Studio: The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros. Released: December 25, 1973 Runtime: 123 minutes
Cast:
- Clint Eastwood as Inspector Harry Callahan
- Hal Holbrook as Lt. Neil Briggs
- Mitchell Ryan as Officer Charlie McCoy
- David Soul as Officer John Davis
- Felton Perry as Inspector Early Smith
- Robert Urich as Officer Mike Grimes
- Tim Matheson as Officer Phil Sweet
- Kip Niven as Officer Red Astrachan
The first sequel in the Dirty Harry cycle. Where the original film made Callahan the symbolic answer to a permissive system that couldn't stop Scorpio, Magnum Force turns the argument inside out: a squad of rookie motorcycle traffic cops, reading Callahan as a model, have organized themselves as a death squad and are executing San Francisco's untouchable criminals. Callahan is forced into the position of the institutionalist — the cop who insists, against younger men who have taken his reputation as a permission slip, that the line between police work and assassination still exists.