Dirty Harry, the 1971 film that spawned several, best illustrates the popular media image of the crime. In that film Clint Eastwood plays Harry, a maverick police officer who has no patience for the Bill of Rights, the constitutionally protected liberties he holds responsible for letting scores of dangerous criminals go free. In Dirty Harry the qualities that have made Eastwood a Hollywood 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.
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