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“I saw Satan laughing with delight” wasn’t just a casual observation in 1971, it was a lyric from an earworm hit song called “American Pie,” which was played on every station in the country.Įnter “Dirty Harry.” 50 years old and still remarkable for director Don Siegel’s virtuoso, operatic staging of its many memorable action sequences, driven by the film’s simple crime tale of a psycho serial killer and the unorthodox homicide detective on his trail in early ‘70s San Francisco, “Dirty Harry” is a landmark American policier not just because it kicks major action film ass, (and it still does) but because it so effectively tapped into the era’s anxieties and wound up completely transcending the cop film genre. Woodstock’s peaceful vibes were drowned in the blood of the Manson killings and the Altamont debacle. Vietnam put a kind of graphic violence that Americans had never seen, on an endless television loop. In the late 1960s and early ‘70s, a multitude of globally significant events and trends shaped the public’s tastes – and fears – both here and abroad.ĭistrust of authority, a staple characteristic of the 60s youth culture, got revved up by seismic shocks such as 1968’s Chicago Democratic Convention catastrophe and 1970’s Kent State massacre here, and the Prague Spring crackdown and the Paris to Cannes and Beyond revolution Over There.įears of lawlessness were stoked by the newly victorious GOP during the 1968 election and the Nixon/Agnew presidential leadership team’s almost daily exploitation of those fears kept crime on page one for several years.