{"id":30445,"date":"2022-09-02T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30445"},"modified":"2022-08-28T17:35:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T21:35:31","slug":"magnum-force-1973-starring-clint-eastwood-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30445","title":{"rendered":"Magnum Force (1973) Starring Clint Eastwood \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z090222zview_magnumforce.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"766\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Magnum Force <\/strong><\/em>(1973)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Ted Post<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: \u00a0<strong>John Milius, Michael Cimino<\/strong> from a story by <strong>John Milius <\/strong>based on characters created by <strong>Harry Julian Fink, R.M. Fink<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring: <strong>Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan, David Soul, Tim Matheson, Kip Niven, Robert Urich, Felton Perry, Maurice Argent, Richard Devon, Tony Giorgio, Jack Kosslyn<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>John Mitchum<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em> Clint Eastwood is Dirty Harry in Magnum Force<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Someone is killing criminals who have escaped justice in court.\u00a0 As the dead bodies pile up, Inspector Harry Callahan (Eastwood) begins to suspect that the killer is a cop.\u00a0 As Harry continues his investigation, he discovers that he is now on the killer&#8217;s hit list!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clint Eastwood returns in the second outing as his most popular character, Dirty Harry Callahan.\u00a0 <em>Magnum Force<\/em> is Eastwood&#8217;s favorite <em>Dirty Harry<\/em> film.\u00a0 It&#8217;s easy to see why.\u00a0 The screenplay by John Milius and Michael Cimino provides a great response to critics who said <em>Dirty Harry<\/em> is a fascist vigilante.\u00a0 Plus Eastwood&#8217;s supporting cast includes several stars on the verge of their breakout roles (David Soul in <em>Starsky &amp; Hutch<\/em>, Tim Matheson in <em>The Quest<\/em> and Robert Urich in <em>S.W.A.T.<\/em>).\u00a0 Hal Holbrook is perfect as Lt. Briggs, Calahan&#8217;s supervising officer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Magnum Force<\/em> provides a great showcase for Eastwood doing what he does best; playing the loner who despite &#8220;the system&#8221; gets the job done. Eastwood starts and ends <em>Magnum Force<\/em> with memorable dialogue.\u00a0 The film opens with a repeat of the &#8220;Do you feel lucky, punk?&#8221; speech and ends with &#8220;A man&#8217;s got to know his limitations.&#8221;\u00a0 In between we see Harry react to situations (Eastwood has facial expressions that rival Vince McMahon&#8217;s), stop a hijacking, being hit on (in different ways) by women and bad guys and overcoming the odds win the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">Magnum Force<\/i><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">\u00a0earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z090222zview_magnumforce2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnum Force (1973) Director: Ted Post Screenplay by: \u00a0John Milius, Michael Cimino from a story by John Milius based on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30446,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30445\/revisions\/30446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}