Daily Archives: December 20, 2013

‘Magnum Force’ opens in Holland 40 years ago today (12/20/1973)


Video: 'Magnum Force' trailer

(Thursday, December 20, 1973)Magnum Force, a police thriller film about a maverick San Francisco police detective who hunts down a band of vigilante cops, opened today in the Netherlands (it opened in the U.S. five days later).

Directed by Ted Post, the film was the second to feature Clint Eastwood as maverick cop Harry Callahan. It also starred Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan, David Soul, Felton Perry, Robert Urich and
Tim Matheson.