The Enforcer
1976
Director: James Fargo
Starring: Clint
Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Harry Guardino, John Mitchum, DeVeren Bookwalter
Rated R
Dirty Harry falls prey to the curse of the third film in a franchise in The Enforcer. Intended as the final chapter to the series,
the film comes off cheap, amateur, outlandish and dated. The film’s themes and plot’s believably may have sold better in 1976, but even then it had to have seemed a bit
cartoonish and laughable.
Two fans of the first 2 films in the series took it upon
themselves to write their own Dirty Harry film, Moving Target and by chance got it through to Clint Eastwood
himself. Eastwood thought it needed
work, but took it to Warner Bros. Warner
had already begun work on a script for a third picture called Dirty Harry and More. The villain plot of Moving Target was combined with the female partner angle of More and thus the film with the working
title Dirty Harry III (later renamed The Enforcer, as Eastwood wanted each
film to have a standalone name) was put into production.
