Dirty Harry,the 1971 film that spawned several sequels, best illustrates the popular media image of the crime fighter. In that film Clint Eastwood plays Harry, a maverick police officer who is not constrained by standard police procedures. Harry is a man of action who has no patience for the Bill of Rights, the constitu- tionally protected liberties he holds responsible for letting scores of dangerous criminals go free. In Dirty Harry the qualities that have made Eastwood a Holly- wood icon-- the quiet one with the painfully bottled up capacity for violence break loose. Harry is in pursuit of a vicious killer, Scorpio, who has hijacked a school bus. When forcefully apprehended by Harry, Scorpio shouts, "I have a right to a lawyer!" But Harry kills Scorpio in cold blood, and in the final scene he removes his police badge and throws it into a gravel pit.