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The Enforcer (1976/I)

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• The two militant organizations depicted in the film - the People's Revolutionary Strike Force and Uhuru - were modeled after two real-life militant groups, the Symbionese Liberation Army (which kidnapped Patricia Hearst) and the Black Panther Party.
  
  
• In 1980 a writer sued Clint Eastwood for plagiarism, accusing him of taking the title of the film from one of his works. Eastwood maintained that he was inspired by the Humphrey Bogart film The Enforcer (1951) (which was also owned by Warner Bros). The case was dismissed.
  
  
• The writers of the original screenplay did not know how to get the script to Clint Eastwood. So they left it at The Hog's Breath Inn, Eastwood's Carmel, California restaurant.
  
  

• At one point during the movie, a phone call is made from outside Candlestick Park (where the Giants are playing) to a pay phone that is in front of a bridge and a warehouse. The warehouse has since been torn down, replaced by SBC Park (the home stadium of today's Giants). Fans walking to SBC Park from the south cross the bridge to get there from the parking lots.
  
  
• Body count: 13 (plus one man shot in the groin)
  
  
• The film was originally and unimaginatively called "Dirty Harry III", before officially being titled as "The Enforcer".
  
  
• The original script was titled "Moving Target", and onward to the working original title "Dirty Harry III", before officially being titled "The Enforcer".
  
  
• In the brothel, Harry gives his name as "Larry Dickman". According to Eastwood in Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007), this is a reference to a joke by Don Rickles.
  
  

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