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|1971

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|Released at the dawn of what historians call the Conservative backlash (a direct response to 1960s radicalism), Clint Eastwood plays a tough San Francisco police officer who doesn't let bureaucratic regulations stop him from doing what he knows is morally right. The film criticizes not only the then-recent Supreme Court decisions which granted new rights to criminals but also the traditional moral decay America experienced during the 1960s and 1970s. Four sequels followed suit: ''Magnum Force'' (1973), ''The Enforcer'' (1976), ''Sudden Impact'' (1983), and ''The Dead Pool'' (1988).

|Released at the dawn of what historians call the Conservative backlash (a direct response to 1960s radicalism), Clint Eastwood plays a tough, manly San Francisco police officer who doesn't let bureaucratic regulations stop him from doing what he knows is morally right. The film criticizes not only the then-recent Supreme Court decisions which granted new rights to criminals but also the traditional moral decay America experienced during the 1960s and 1970s. Four sequels followed suit: ''Magnum Force'' (1973), ''The Enforcer'' (1976), ''Sudden Impact'' (1983), and ''The Dead Pool'' (1988).

<br>This movie had box office revenues 9 times its costs, and is one of the [[Essay:Worst Liberal Snubs|worst liberal snubs]] with zero [[Academy Award]] nominations.

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