Trivia / The Enforcer

• Deleted Scene: According to director James Fargo, at Clint Eastwood's request, an improvised bar scene with Tyne Daly and himself drinking in a bar was set up. After drinking four quarts of beer between the two, they managed to get one good line by her saying she had to go pee, which she did, but the scene overall didn't work and was deleted.
• Recycled Set: The scenes from the squad room where Harry drops the dynamite bomb, is identical to the squad room used in The Streets of San Francisco which ran at the time of filming this picture.
• Similarly Named Works : The film is not a remake of the 1954 Humphrey Bogart film.
• Throw It In!: According to director James Fargo, the armed robber inside the liquor store improvised when he booted Harry in the ass.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The original iteration of the script was a standalone film which featured the police matching wits with a terrorist group modeled on the Symbionese Liberation Army, which had kidnapped Patty Hearst a few years earlier. Clint Eastwood liked the script and reworked it into a Dirty Harry film, though he drastically toned down the original screenplay's political content to imply the terrorists are simply crooks pretending to be radicals to mislead the authorities.
  • Eastwood was originally going to direct this film himself. After taking over as director of The Outlaw Josey Wales though, he found himself having to supervise the edit of that film and lacked time to fully prepare himself to both act and direct in another film so soon. He therefore promoted James Fargo, who would have been this film's assistant director, to full director.
• Working Title: Moving Target and Dirty Harry III.
• You Look Familiar: Mustapha is played by the same actor as the bank robber from the first movie and the pimp from the second.

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