"The Enforcer" was the third of five Dirty Harry films starring Clint Eastwood. In this installment Harry loses not one but two more partners. This time he's up against a militant group called "The People's Revolutionary Strike Force", a group of disgruntled Viet Nam veterans led by Bobby Maxwell (DeVeran Bockwalter).
A sexy young thing, Miki (Jocelyn Jones) lures two gas workers to a remote cabin where Maxwell murders them and takes over their van. Meanwhile Harry and his partner DiGeorgio (John MItchum) come upon a liquor store hostage taking. Harry crashes his cruiser through the storefront and dispatches the bad guys with his .44 magnum (one of whom is Joe Spano of TV's "Hill Street Blues"). Harry's bosses Capt. McKay (Bradford Dillman) and a more sympathetic Lt. Bressler (Harry Guardino) are upset over the damage caused by Harry's actions.
McKay re-assigns Harry to Personnel (marvelous) where he is part of a board interviewing candidates to become Detective Inspectors, One of these is a young ambitious Kate Moore (Tyne Daly) whom Harry berates. Meanwhile Maxwell and his group take the stolen van to an armory to steal arms. After killing the guard at the gate, the gang proceeds to load up the weapons but are interrupted by DiGeorgio who places them under arrest but is stabbed from behind by Maxwell. DiGeorgio later dies and Cpt. McCay restores Harry to homicide and assigns him a new partner.....Inspector O'Toole (marvelous).
Harry is leery of his inexperienced new partner at first but gradually comes to learn that she is capable after all. They chase a suspected bomber all over San Francisco (nobody ever gets tired in these chases) before O'Toole discovers that she has been carrying a live bomb (marvelous).
Maxwell and his gang kidnap the Mayor (John Crawford) and spirit him off to the abandoned Alcatraz Prison. Harry and O'Toole go after them but first They have to find out where they have taken their hostage. McKay believes that a black organization called "Uhru" is responsible. Harry goes to the leader Mustapha (Albert Popwell) for information. He learns from him information which lead him to the kidnappers. McKay and company then arrive and arrest Mustapha and his followers but Harry later bails him out.
Harry and O'Toole then proceed to Alcatraz after Harry is almost killed in a church by Wanda (Samantha Deane) disguised as a nun. The priest, Father John (M.G. Kelly) has been sympathetic to the gang. Harry does battle with the gang dispatching several of them. O'Toole rescues the Mayor by shooting Buchinski (Robert Hoy) Maxwell's lieutenant. While guiding the Mayor to safety, she is shot by Maxwell while warning Harry of the danger.
Harry then goes after Maxwell, who has re-captured the Mayor and..........................
Tyne Daly would go on to a successful career in the TV series "Kate and Allie". Bockwalter makes a despicable villain especially since he murders the popular DiGeorgio who had been in the two previous films. Albert Popwell also appears in his third "Dirty Harry".
Marvelous!
Followed by two more sequels.
A sexy young thing, Miki (Jocelyn Jones) lures two gas workers to a remote cabin where Maxwell murders them and takes over their van. Meanwhile Harry and his partner DiGeorgio (John MItchum) come upon a liquor store hostage taking. Harry crashes his cruiser through the storefront and dispatches the bad guys with his .44 magnum (one of whom is Joe Spano of TV's "Hill Street Blues"). Harry's bosses Capt. McKay (Bradford Dillman) and a more sympathetic Lt. Bressler (Harry Guardino) are upset over the damage caused by Harry's actions.
McKay re-assigns Harry to Personnel (marvelous) where he is part of a board interviewing candidates to become Detective Inspectors, One of these is a young ambitious Kate Moore (Tyne Daly) whom Harry berates. Meanwhile Maxwell and his group take the stolen van to an armory to steal arms. After killing the guard at the gate, the gang proceeds to load up the weapons but are interrupted by DiGeorgio who places them under arrest but is stabbed from behind by Maxwell. DiGeorgio later dies and Cpt. McCay restores Harry to homicide and assigns him a new partner.....Inspector O'Toole (marvelous).
Harry is leery of his inexperienced new partner at first but gradually comes to learn that she is capable after all. They chase a suspected bomber all over San Francisco (nobody ever gets tired in these chases) before O'Toole discovers that she has been carrying a live bomb (marvelous).
Maxwell and his gang kidnap the Mayor (John Crawford) and spirit him off to the abandoned Alcatraz Prison. Harry and O'Toole go after them but first They have to find out where they have taken their hostage. McKay believes that a black organization called "Uhru" is responsible. Harry goes to the leader Mustapha (Albert Popwell) for information. He learns from him information which lead him to the kidnappers. McKay and company then arrive and arrest Mustapha and his followers but Harry later bails him out.
Harry and O'Toole then proceed to Alcatraz after Harry is almost killed in a church by Wanda (Samantha Deane) disguised as a nun. The priest, Father John (M.G. Kelly) has been sympathetic to the gang. Harry does battle with the gang dispatching several of them. O'Toole rescues the Mayor by shooting Buchinski (Robert Hoy) Maxwell's lieutenant. While guiding the Mayor to safety, she is shot by Maxwell while warning Harry of the danger.
Harry then goes after Maxwell, who has re-captured the Mayor and..........................
Tyne Daly would go on to a successful career in the TV series "Kate and Allie". Bockwalter makes a despicable villain especially since he murders the popular DiGeorgio who had been in the two previous films. Albert Popwell also appears in his third "Dirty Harry".
Marvelous!
Followed by two more sequels.