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[Originally published in Movietone News 54, June 1977] James Fargo’s The Enforcer, with Clint Eastwood billed as “the Dirtiest Harry of them all,” also makes him the limpest, and represents the deterioration of the Dirty Harry Formula—if indeed there ever was such a thing. Donald Siegel’s Dirty Harry (1971) told a many-layered story built around [...]

[Originally published in Movietone News 64-65, March 1980] Going in, Irwin Allen’s latest disaster movie sounds as if it ought to be the ultimate in the genre. Entitled When Time Ran Out…, complete with ellipsis, and based on a novel called The Day the World Ended, the picture starts off with science-fiction-y images of a [...]