Clint Eastwood once appeared in a forgotten music video in character as Harry Callahan, his character from the Dirty Harry ...

Otherwise, "Sudden Impact" wasn't the most well-received follow-up. The film bears an unremarkable 51% on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics seemingly taken aback by the sheer brutality of the thing.

In Mark Edlitz ’s book Movies Go Forth: 4th Films in Fantastic Franchises, the author interviewed Joseph Stinson, the screenwriter of the fourth Dirty Harry installment, Sudden Impact, in 1983.