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Harry Guardino has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1980s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Dirty Harry.
Recurring themes

The Anderson Tapes
1971
Crime · Thriller

Hunter Will Get You
1976
Action · Crime

Magnum Force
1973
Drama · Crime

Best Seller
1987
Action · Crime

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1974
Crime · Thriller

Charley Varrick
1973
Crime · Thriller

Walking Tall
1973
Action · Crime

Mr. Majestyk
1974
Action · Crime
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni
A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Gennaro, in Napoli.
Dir. Dino Risi · With Nino Manfredi, Senta Berger, Mario Adorf

Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.
Dir. Nicholas Ray · With Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhán McKenna, Hurd Hatfield

An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
Dir. Melville Shavelson · With Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer

Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.
Dir. James Fargo · With Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Harry Guardino
A young terrorist kills and injures patrons of a Norfolk amusement park by placing homemade explosives on the track of one of its roller coasters. After staging a similar incident in Pittsburgh, he sends a tape to a meeting of major amusement park executives in Chicago, demanding $1 million to make him stop.
Dir. James Goldstone · With George Segal, Richard Widmark, Timothy Bottoms

World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker

Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight – as he does – to make more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he's pushed into it. A motorcycle gang and an orangutan called Clyde all add to the 'fun'.
Dir. Buddy Van Horn · With Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis

Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run his Prohibition-era alcohol sales operation. Capone rises through the ranks of Torrio's gang and eventually takes over. On top, he works to consolidate his power by eliminating his enemies, fixing elections to his advantage and getting rich. In his spare time, Capone courts the principled Iris Crawford.
Dir. Steve Carver · With Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, Sylvester Stallone
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