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Sudden Impact (1983)


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Sudden Impact (1983) is the fourth "Dirty Harry" film.

In one of the most famous movie lines of all time, Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), during a robbery attempt in his favorite coffee shop, threatens and taunts the armed robber who has taken a hostage at gunpoint. Harry doesn't flinch as he points his Magnum at the threatening criminal and taunts him: "Go ahead, make my day."

In the film he pursues Jennifer Spencer (Sondra Locke) who has taken the law into her own hands, killing the men who raped her.

 



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