Eastwood, star of Unforgiven and the Dirty Harry films, was unabashed by the reaction.

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His works include the music for "Cool Hand Luke, " "Dirty Harry, " "Bullet, " and "Mannix, " and this little jam.

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But Clean Edgar, working with an efficient state apparatus behind him, is a lot more dangerous than Dirty Harry.

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Mr. Eastwood's biographers, including Mr. Schickel, typically cite directors Sergio Leone ("A Fistful of Dollars") and Don Siegel ("Dirty Harry") as his primary mentors.

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In this true-crime story, Dirty Harry lifts the lid on one of most corrupt regimes in the less-than-stellar history of the Los Angeles Police Department.

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All the over-the-top action and melodrama is so much more fun when you view the whole thing as a Spaghetti Western, or a Dirty Harry movie.

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America is Dirty Harry.

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But while we wait until the end of July for the last previously Red studio to go Blu brining just about all of Hollywood together behind one format -- Fox, Warner, and MGM open the classics flood gates with some very famous titles like the Dirty Harry franchise and Patton.

ENGADGET: Blu-ray releases on June 3rd, 2008 HD