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The Dead Pool was released in United States theatres July 1988. [19] In its opening weekend, the film took $9,071,330 in 1988 cinemas in the US, at an average of $4,563. [3] In total in the US, the film made $37,903,295, making it the least profitable of the five films in the Dirty Harry series. [19] [20]
Dirty Harry is an American action thriller film series featuring San Francisco Police Department Homicide Division Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan.There are five films: Dirty Harry (1971), Magnum Force (1973), The Enforcer (1976), Sudden Impact (1983) and The Dead Pool (1988).
Inspector Harold Francis "Dirty Harry" Callahan (born October 3, 1930) is a fictional character and protagonist of the Dirty Harry film series, which consists of Dirty Harry (1971), Magnum Force (1973), The Enforcer (1976), Sudden Impact (1983), and The Dead Pool (1988). Callahan is portrayed by Clint Eastwood in each film.
Sudden Impact is a 1983 American action-thriller film, the fourth in the Dirty Harry series, directed, produced by and starring Clint Eastwood (making it the only Dirty Harry film to be directed by Eastwood himself) and co-starring Sondra Locke. [3]
A dead pool is a key plot element of the 1988 final installment of the Dirty Harry film series, The Dead Pool.Harry investigates the players, when several people listed in a game of dead pool die in suspicious circumstances.
It was followed by four sequels: Magnum Force in 1973, The Enforcer in 1976, Sudden Impact in 1983, and The Dead Pool in 1988. In 2012, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant". [4] [5] [6]
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The Dead Pool grossed nearly $38 million, relatively low receipts for a Dirty Harry film. It is generally viewed as the weakest film of the series, though Roger Ebert thought it was as good as the original. [185] [186] Eastwood began working on smaller, more personal projects and experienced a lull in his career between 1988 and 1992.