When a madman calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces the city, tough-as-nails San Francisco Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath.


Books with substantial mentioning of Dirty Harry

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Ronald Schwartz
Neo-Noir, The New Film Noir Style from Psycho to Collateral
Lanham, Maryland - Toronto - Oxford, 2005

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

James Robert Parish
The Great Cop Pictures
Metuchen, N.J., & London, 1990

Peter van Gelder
Offscreen Onscreen, The inside stories of 60 great films
London, 1990

Robert Bookbinder
The Films of the Seventies
Secaucus, NJ, 1982

Articles on Dirty Harry

Richard Combs, 8 degrees of separation, in: Filmcomment, nr. 4 (July/August), 2002 pp. 50-53

Articles with substantial mentioning of Dirty Harry

Jonathan Kirshner, "A Man's Got to Know His Limitations", The Cop Films from Nixon through Reagan, in: Lester D. Friedman and David Desser (eds.), Tough ain't enough, New Brunswick, 2018

Kai Mihm, Wer hätte eigentlich...?, in: epd Film, nr. 8, 2010 pp. 20-25