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Article: After 30 years, Dirty Harry can still make our day.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- December 11, 2001
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With a resume rich in Oscar-laden works such as "Unforgiven," testimonials, lifetime-achievement awards and many volumes of critical appraisal, it's easy to forget that Clint Eastwood once got less respect than Rodney Dangerfield.
The icon of international cinema, now 71, has made many smart decisions in his career, both as an actor and a businessman. But none was more astute than Eastwood's decision to collaborate with Don Siegel three decades ago in what looked like a piece of police routine called "Dirty Harry" (R, 3 stars). The movie was both enormously successful and vastly influential and begat four more outings by Eastwood as the loner San Francisco cop ...