This poster for the film “Dirty Harry” is an excellent example of 70's movie posters. Like many older movie posters it uses illustration instead of photos, but unlike movie posters from the previous decade, it focuses on a single iconic image instead of multiple scenes from the movie. This is typical of 70's posters, which generally displayed a more unified and stylized design than posters from earlier decades. The image of the handgun/Clint Eastwood's face doesn’t tell you a great deal about the plot, but it does promise the violence for which both images are synonymous. The two tone shading hints at the film's stark morality. Since the movie's plot can be summed up in the sentence “Dirty Harry kills bad guys” the poster fits the film.
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