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The Enforcer
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Magnum Force
Directed by Ted Post
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop them. From TMDB
121 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 28, 2026 · last updated Oct 29, 2026 · How this works
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Magnum Force is a 1973 drama crime action film, directed by Ted Post, starring Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook and Mitchell Ryan.
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60 of 121 · most liked firstMagnum Force is the best Dirty Harry movie because it forces Callahan to make a choice of whether he wants to be a conservative or a fascist.
positive · AI labelView post →Obscure YT of the day: 1974's THE DEATH SQUAD, which Quentin Tarantino says "is a much better movie w/ the same premise as MAGNUM FORCE." Robert Forster (JACKIE BROWN), Claude Akins, Michelle Phillips star. Directed by Harry Falk. youtu.be/9fEp45N4kOs?...
neutral · AI labelView post →One movie I love for some reason I can't entirely explain is Magnum Force, the Dirty Harry movie where a squad of motorcycle cops starts killing anyone they want to as a shapeshifting mass and even Dirty Harry is kind of like Hm.
positive · AI labelView post →Magnum Force (ironically co-written by JOHN MILIUS of all people) does subvert the explicitly reactionary message of the first film a fair bit
neutral · AI labelView post →My favourite bit from any Dirty Harry film is the bit in Magnum Force where Harry drives past Basil Fawlty who's about to give his car a damn goos thrashing #itv4
positive · AI labelView post →There is Letters from Iwo Jima, which portrays the perspective of the enemy on the island. And then there his ACAB movie, which ends with a disgruntled SFPD detective blowing up his boss with a car bomb (Magnum Force)
neutral · AI labelView post →On this night (6th February) in 1982, the Scala Cinema was showing The Gauntlet (1977), Dirty Harry (1971), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) and Magnum Force (1973) as a Clint Eastwood all-nighter.
neutral · AI labelView post →An Italian photomontage movie poster for 1973’s Magnum Force. It’s a film it’s quite possible to rewatch & begin to imagine it’s a Judge Dredd tale. The wastelands of San Francisco become Mega-City One, the bikes Lawgivers, the killer-cops outlaw Judges. Even more than Dirty Harry, it’s pure JD DNA.
positive · AI labelView post →Obscure YT of the day: James Franciscus (BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES, Lee Grant (SHAMPOO) & Leslie Nielsen (THE NAKED GUN) star in the sci-fi chiller TV movie NIGHT SLAVES (1970)! Directed by Ted Post (MAGNUM FORCE)! youtu.be/9A3ILAXBozA?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminds me of the “either you’re with us or you’re against us” mantra that was prevalent during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Also similar to a saying from the villains in the Clint Eastwood movie, Magnum Force.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun fact, the music for the “Meet the Sniper” video for Team Fortress 2 was Lalo Schifrin’s music for the Dirty Harry movie MAGNUM FORCE youtu.be/ZAhlD3h0EyU?...
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m finally ready to reveal my Dirty Harry movie rankings: 1. Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, The Dead Pool (all tied) 5. Dirty Harry
positive · AI labelView post →a friend was watching "Magnum Force" (2nd Dirty Harry movie), and discovered that somehow one of the background cars is a 1/55, hand built Aston Martin Lagonda Rapide. #weirdcarbs
neutral · AI labelView post →My debate counterprogramming, not wanting to watch Trump be a reactionary asshole was...a Dirty Harry movie. Magnum Force (1973) is queasy, interesting stuff. The Clint doth protest too much of admitting the worst people alive got rock hard for the first, but also not willing to stop arousing them.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yep tonight's film. Having a BBQ and watching Magnum Force. Some classic Dirty Harry lol #filmsky #magnumforce #70s
positive · AI labelView post →that's normal: part of the genre / joke "Dirty Harry" (1971) is about *a cop not following the rules* ("fascist") next movie in "Magnum Force" the protagonist is now killing the fascist cops who aren't following the rules, but too much = that defined cop movies since then.
neutral · AI labelView post →For me the most 80s movie is Manhunter (86). The most 90s is The Last Boy Scout (91). Can't decide on a most 70s movie. Perhaps Magnum Force (73) for its feel. None of these are defining movies in cinema but just feel very that decade. I'm scared xXx might be the 2000s contender.
positive · AI labelView post →i often mention the Clint Eastwood movie Magnum Force because Callahan confesses at the end that he has no faith in the system he defends as a cop but he will still take it over fascism
neutral · AI labelView post →Night Slaves (1970). Tight TV movie that starts with a mystery that still haunts. Short film, all story! James Franciscus, Lee Grant (Damien Omen II), Andrew Prine (Grizzly), Leslie Nielsen, Tisha Sterling (Coogan’s Bluff), Virginia Vincent (Hills Have Eyes)… directed by Ted Post (Magnum Force).
neutral · AI labelView post →Continuing the franchise watch, as tonight's movie is MAGNUM FORCE #NowWatching
neutral · AI labelView post →I am probably only person that has never seen the show - but saw Magnum Force (small) filmed and a big fan of the movie #AT40 #SFO
positive · AI labelView post →The No1 movie on Monday, December 24th 1973 was Magnum Force with #DavidSoul, remembered also as Hutch and the singer of Don't Give Up on Us Baby... all are remembered here, weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2024/01/16/l...
neutral · AI labelView post →Quite pleased with my most recent CEX bluray haul: every Dirty Harry movie (except Magnum Force) for £4 each
neutral · AI labelView post →For #EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025 Day 21... Sharpshooter... Dirty Harry in Magnum Force (1973)… in just one from this David Soul tribute... #Moviesky #Filmsky #TVsky weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2024/01/16/l...
neutral · AI labelView post →A fabulous 1973 movie poster for Magnum Force, the second Dirty Harry thriller. Designed by Bill Gold with photography by Philippe Halsman, it’s a darn masterpiece. I’d struggle to defend the film - beyond its San Francisco exteriors - or its values, but the poster is remarkable.
neutral · AI labelView post →The police death squad in Magnum Force might genuinely some of my all-time favourite film villains. Such bad vibes. 🎥
positive · AI labelView post →Y'all. I'm having an awesome time! This movie's awesome! #FridayThrillerClub #MagnumForce #ClintEastwood
positive · AI labelView post →This movie looks great. #FridayThrillerClub #MagnumForce
positive · AI labelView post →The villains are so nasty in these movies. #FridayThrillerClub #MagnumForce
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching film number 2 in the series - Magnum Force (1973)
neutral · AI labelView post →"Magnum Force" is by far my favorite Dirty Harry movie. The first was seen by the public as showing Harry as a vigilante. Here, writer John Milius turns that on its head and has Harry chasing TRUE vigilantes. #TCMParty #MagnumForce
positive · AI labelView post →So these guys are what critics of the first movie saw Harry as. Pretty funny. #FridayThrillerClub #MagnumForce
neutral · AI labelView post →Posters for “Magnum Force” (1973) from The USA, Japan, Germany and Poland #FridayThrillerClub #MagnumForce #DirtyHarry #FilmNoir
neutral · AI labelView post →You simply don’t get this kind of shit anymore. (From 1973’s Magnum Force, the second Dirty Harry movie).
positive · AI labelView post →next up: another Dirty Harry movie, Magnum Force (1973). We seem to be on a binge of watching movie franchises lately. #Filmsky youtube.com/watch?v=qVk8...
neutral · AI labelView post →yeah - it's kind of funny: Dirty Harry: Cop frustrated with ineffective justice system goes rogue and murders an obvious criminal. Magnum Force: Same cop takes down a gang of cops who murder . . . the same types of people Harry murdered in the first movie. . .
neutral · AI labelView post →Magnum Force isn't as incredible as Dirty Harry but it's a damn fine sequel. Fantastic film. 📽️ My ★★★★½ review of Magnum Force on Letterboxd boxd.it/71hFZN 📽️ #Filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →In the film Magnum Force (1973) Clint Eastwood gets home late at night and grabs a cold burger from the fridge, then lies in bed to eat it
neutral · AI labelView post →SOUL REAVER. I review the second Dirty Harry movie MAGNUM FORCE, right here... nuts4r2.blogspot.com/2026/03/magn...
neutral · AI labelView post →It might have been an homage to the motorcycle cops from the second Dirty Harry film, Magnum Force. Lots of leather there.
neutral · AI labelView post →😂🤣 Saw that too. Fully agree. The Godfather, Texas chainsaw massacre 😩 dirty Harry and Magnum Force. Saturday night fever, Rosemary's baby. Adults were so different 🤦🏻♀️ I think I saw 2 Disney movies, zero cartoons, but every tv show & movie kids shouldn't 🤣🤷🏻♀️
neutral · AI labelView post →My DIRTY HARRY blu-ray collection arrived yesterday, and I watched MAGNUM FORCE (1973). Not as intense as the first film (but how could it ever hope to match Andrew Robinson's performance as the Scorpio Killer?) but very well crafted and I like how it challenges Harry's politics/world view.
positive · AI labelView post →RIP Lalo Schifrin, one of my favourite composers! Mission: Impossible, Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt, Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, Telefon, Sudden Impact - so good! A jazz man, Lalo was a natural for movie scores. He was good at horror too, here's his rejected Exorcist score: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oAd...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Magnum Force, the first Clint Eastwood film I ever saw (on a re-run in 1975).
neutral · AI labelView post →"Hang 'Em High" was directed by Ted Post, who would go on to direct Eastwood in "Magnum Force," which I think is, by far, the best Dirty Harry movie. #HangEmHigh #TCMParty
positive · AI labelView post →Magnum Force was Milius? How 'bout that. (Didn't he also make the film version of Hair?) (I know we're riffing but Milius to me is a great use-case for 'it's complicated.')
neutral · AI labelView post →Born OTD 100 years ago: Hal Holbrook (d 2021) who parleyed his long-running one-man Mark Twain show into a long career in film and TV. My favourite Holbrook roles: Dirty Harry's nemesis Briggs in Magnum Force; and the "solitary" 19th century settler in TV miniseries The Awakening Land.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Clint Eastwood movie “Magnum Force” has a scene where a cop basically says “I wish I could shoot anyone I wanted to and not worry about consequences” while having a plot that shows why that is a bad thing (and the aforementioned cop gets killed, too)…
neutral · AI labelView post →Not sure who said it first, but I quote Dirty Harry with that line, "A man's got to know his limitations." It's from the movie Magnum Force. Maybe Dirty Harry got it from your dad! There are so many good Dirty Harry (and Clint Eastwood in general) lines.
neutral · AI labelView post →@adamscantwell.bsky.social I missed Fabio Frizzi at the DNA but caught The Kyle Eastwood Quintet playing selections from Clint Eastwood movie scores. Here they are busting out with some Lalo Schifrin Magnum Force.
neutral · AI labelView post →This movie contains the only acting role of Magnum Force and Beneath The Planet Of The Apes director Ted Post.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Magnum Force with my grandpa because it was the the first movie he was a grip on and got flashbanged by the opening credits playing the SNIPER TF2 THEME WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S FROM THIS MOVIE
neutral · AI labelView post →This brings to mind the great line from the Eastwood movie "Magnum Force," where Dirty Harry says "A man's gotta know his limitations," as the bad guy's car explodes. Sometimes you just have to accept when you've been whipped. And, not to do so is simply crazy.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think it was the movie Magnum Force where he shoots 39 people dead while investigating a suspicious murder
neutral · AI labelView post →#TheDeathSquad: Ex-cop recruited back onto force to infiltrate group of dirty cops murdering criminals who escape justice. It sounds like MAGNUM FORCE b/c it's basically MAGNUM FORCE. It isn't quite as good, but for a 70min MfTV movie, it's pretty solid. Forster perf and Dave Grusin score shine.
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day in movie history: Magnum Force directed by Ted Post released December 13, 1973. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan, David Soul, Tim Matheson, Kip Niven, Robert Urich, Felton Perry, Maurice Argent, Margaret Avery, Richard Devon, Tony Giorgio, Jack Kosslyn. #Noir
neutral · AI labelView post →Love Magnum Force, the film that says "Sometimes it takes a fascist cop to beat even worse fascist cops." God bless you John Milius, you unhinged bastard.
positive · AI labelView post →He was one of the co-creators! And he wrote the screenplay for MAGNUM FORCE, based on his treatment for the original DIRTY HARRY movie. And he wrote the original script for A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER. He has a very narrow, very focused vision.
neutral · AI labelView post →"DIRTY HARRY is the vastly better directed movie but MAGNUM FORCE is the more ~interesting~ film." My ★★★★½ review of #MagnumForce boxd.it/abwN7X
positive · AI labelView post →Magnum Force, great movie (but wasn't a date movie). #AT40
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