THE ENFORCER (1976)
Over the years, the Alcatraz prison has featured in a number of movies. The Birdman of Alcatraz of 1962 comes to mind and so do Escape from Alcatraz (1979), Murder in the First (1995) as well as The Rock a year later. Therefor, being situated on an island in the middle of the Bay of San Francisco, the city where Dirty Harry operates, one should suppose it inevitable to feature in one of his movies too.
In this, the third delivery of the series, Harry is up against a group of terrorists that is trying to hold his city to ransom. But this time his partner is a woman and that, of cause, does not sit well with him at all. This in turn leads him to using a new catchphrase: every time she does something he does not like he looks away and mumbles the word "Marvelous..."
Whereas the first film focused on the over emphasis of the rights of criminals and the second on the limits of how far law-enforcement should go, this one looks at what happens when politics interfere with police work. Incidentally, Tyne Daly, who plays the roll of Harry's female partner, later went on and became famous for her role in the TV cop show Cagney and Lacey.
Compared to the first two movies in this series, this one is still very good but not quite on par with them. The action is there but the plot is thinner. However, it is still good enough to earn 3 out of 5 stars from yours truly.
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Clint Eastwood and Tyne Daly
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