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San Francisco police detective "Dirty Harry" Callahan learns his name is on an underground betting pool for celebrities who will die. With his new partner, a Chinese-American karate whiz, Dirty Harry must track down the killer while evading a TV reporter who is hounding him and avoiding death himsel...

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Corporate Authors: Warner Bros, Malpaso (Company), Warner Home Video (Firm)
Other Authors: Sharon, Steve, Valdes, David, Van Horn, Buddy, 1929-, Eastwood, Clint, 1930-, Clarkson, Patricia, Neeson, Liam, Kim, Evan, Carrey, Jim, 1962-
Format: Videos DVD
Language:English
Published: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2001]
Subjects:
Dirty Harry (Fictitious character) > Drama.
Police films.
Mystery films.
Adventure films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
San Francisco (Calif.) > Drama.
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Summary:San Francisco police detective "Dirty Harry" Callahan learns his name is on an underground betting pool for celebrities who will die. With his new partner, a Chinese-American karate whiz, Dirty Harry must track down the killer while evading a TV reporter who is hounding him and avoiding death himself.
Item Description:"Based on characters created by Harry Julian Fink and R.M. Fink."
DVD release of the 1988 motion picture.
Dolby digital; anamorphic widescreen format.
Includes theatrical trailer.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD.
Audience:Rated R.
Production Credits:Story, Steve Sharon, Durk Pearson, Sandy Shaw ; director of photography, Jack N. Green ; editor, Ron Spang ; music by Lalo Schifrin.
ISBN:0790738678
Author Notes:Liam John Neeson was born on June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He attended Queen's University Belfast, in Northern Ireland. After leaving university he attended teacher training college in Newcastle. In 1976, Neeson joined the Lyric Players' Theatre in Belfast. He got his first film experience in 1977, playing Jesus Christ and Evangelist in the religious film, Pilgrim's Progress. In 1980, filmmaker John Boorman saw him on stage as Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men and offered him the part of Sir Gawain in the Arthurian film, Excalibur.

In 1987, he moved to Hollywood in order to star in high-profile roles. That year, he starred alongside Cher and Dennis Quaid in Suspect, a role that brought him critical acclaim. In 1990 he followed this with a starring role in Darkman. He later played Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, which earned him a nomination for a Best Actor Oscar, and helped the film earn Best Picture. He went on to star as Jean Valjean in the 1998 adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and in The Haunting as Dr. David Marrow. In 1999, Neeson starred as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. He has also starred in Fallout, Transformers and Taken.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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