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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Brief Nudity, Not For Children, Profanity Movie Release: 1976 DVD Release: 11/20/2001 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French, Japanese, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 36 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Members Wishing: 1 Genres: Action, Action Thriller, Police Detective Film See Also: The Enforcer [Deluxe Edition]

Number three in the Dirty Harry series, The Enforcer equips macho cop Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) with a female assistant, Kate Moore (Tyne Daly). Their quarry is a terrorist organization which has kidnapped the mayor of San Francisco (John Crawford). Harry goes undercover, attempting to root out the terrorists by beating up anybody who looks at him cross-eyed. When Harry and Kate discover that the mayor is being held at Alcatraz Island, it is only a matter of time before the climactic bloodbath. The Enforcer cleared enough at the box office to warrant yet another Dirty Harry opus, Sudden Impact. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan
Harry Guardino - Lt. Bressler
Bradford Dillman - Capt. McKay
John Mitchum - DiGeorgio
DeVeren Bookwalter - Bobby Maxwell
Tyne Daly - Kate Moore

The Enforcer (1951) arrrives on DVD looking better than it has in any home viewing format in decades, courtesy of Artisan Entertainment and Republic Pictures -- edits that cut out some of the most violent shots have been corrected and restored, and the Robert Burks' dark, moody cinematography has been given its maximum impact, every shot carefully transferred right down to the last frame. The audio is in good shape as well, especially David Buttolph's appropriately girm-toned, action-filled score which, at times, seems to anticipate the work he subsequently did on The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. The annotation is virtually non-existent, apart from a plot synopsis that fails to capture the ominous tone of the movie, and no reference is made to Raoul Walsh's uncredited contribution to the movie, directing all of the action and violent sequences. But the 87 minute film has been given a generous 18 chapters, and onr bonus feature, the original trailer, which assembles many of the most violence sequences from the film together with some hardboiled blurbs. As for the content, fans of Humphrey Bogart may find it a little strange, his playing a prosecutor -- something he hadn't done since his pre-starring days of the 1930's, in pictures such as Marked Woman -- but he brings a lot of energy to the role, and it does allow him to work within the confines of the modern police procedural story; The Enforcer, after all, owes more to Dragnet than it does to earlier Bogart crime pictures such as High Sierra or Dead Reckoning. The disc opens on a simple single-layer menu that's easy to maneuver around and opens automatically on start-up. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide