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Harry's blasting his way through San Francisco's
subways after a woman-mangling killer!

 

Depts.

Homicide

Records

Stakeout

The Arcade

Missing
Persons

 

Death in the Air
(Feb 1983)

"Callahan, don't you ever sleep?"
"Not on the subway.  Not when things like this are happening."

Dirty Harry is gunning for blood-stalking a killer protected by the power of the U.S. Government!  The Magnum-powered action doesn't stop for Dirty Harry-not even on Christmas Eve.  Now Harry's after a killer who celebrates the holiday season by shoving women beneath the wheels of speeding subway trains.  But when he unmasks the killer as a hit-man for a renegade government scientist, Harry himself is marked for death.  With the most powerful handgun ever made in his hands, Harry must blow that scientist to kingdom come or never live to see the New Year himself.

 

Review

6 Shots, Or Only 5?
**

If Strangers attempted to turn Harry into a one-man army, this one makes the transformation complete.  Here we see Harry working alone to take out government officials, often slipping a little too far out of character to do so.  For example, Harry kills an unconscious man, shoots an unarmed college kid, and actually says, "Take me to your leader"!!

The plot doesn't help much either, as Harry discovers that a government scientist is testing a new form of nerve gas in the subways, and must perform a solo raid on his hideout.  Although not before being attacked with a surgical laser, blacklisted by the authorities, chased by a helicopter, and undergoing a lengthy and gratuitous torture at the hands of the enemy.

In what may be the only ties to the Dirty Harry of the films present here, we are treated to a visit to Jaffe's Kwik Lunch, and appearances by Bill MacKenzie and Sid Kleinman.

 

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