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{{short description|1983 film by Clint Eastwood}}
{{About|the film|other uses|Sudden Impact (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Sudden Impact
| image          = Sudden Impact.jpg
| alt            = A picture of Detective Harry Callahan against a city skyline: In front of him is glass with a bullet hole.
| caption        = Theatrical release poster by [[Bill Gold]]
| director       = [[Clint Eastwood]]
| producer       = Clint Eastwood
| screenplay     = [[Joseph Stinson]]
| story          = {{plainlist|
* Earl E. Smith
* [[Charles B. Pierce]]
}}
| based_on       = {{based on|[[Dirty Harry (film series)|Characters]]|{{quad}}[[Harry Julian Fink]]|{{quad}}[[R.M. Fink]]}}
| starring       = {{plainlist|
* Clint Eastwood
* [[Sondra Locke]]
}}
| music          = [[Lalo Schifrin]]
| cinematography = [[Bruce Surtees]]
| editing        = [[Joel Cox]]
| studio         = [[The Malpaso Company]]
| distributor    = [[Warner Bros. Pictures|Warner Bros.]]
| released       = {{Film date|1983|12|9}}
| runtime        = 117 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $22 million<ref>[http://powergrid.thewrap.com/project/sudden-impact Box Office Information for ''Sudden Impact''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018105334/http://powergrid.thewrap.com/project/sudden-impact |date=October 18, 2014 }} ''[[The Wrap]]''. Retrieved April 4, 2013.</ref>
| gross          = $150 million<ref name=gross>{{Cite book|last=Thompson|first=Douglas|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2zitDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT140|title=Clint Eastwood - The Biography of Cinema's Greatest Ever Star|date=August 15, 2007|publisher=Kings Road Publishing|isbn=978-1-78418-574-9|pages=140|language=en|chapter=Nine – White Hat, Grey Heart|quote=''Sudden Impact'', made five years earlier, had by then earned more than $150 million.}}</ref>
}}
'''''Sudden Impact''''' is a 1983 American [[action-thriller film]], the fourth in the [[Dirty Harry (film series)|''Dirty Harry'' series]], directed, produced by, and starring [[Clint Eastwood]] (making it the only ''Dirty Harry'' film to be directed by Eastwood himself) and co-starring [[Sondra Locke]].<ref>{{cite web|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Sudden Impact (1983) FILM: 'IMPACT,' WITH CLINT EASTWOOD|author-link=Vincent Canby|first=Vincent|last=Canby|date=December 9, 1983|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9404EFD61F39F93AA35751C1A965948260}}</ref> The film tells the story of a gang-rape victim (Locke) who decides to seek revenge on her rapists 10 years after the attack by killing them one by one. Inspector Callahan (Eastwood), famous for his unconventional and often brutal crime-fighting tactics, is tasked with tracking down the serial killer.

The film is notable for the catchphrase "[[Go ahead, make my day]]", written by [[John Milius]] and uttered by Clint Eastwood's gun-wielding character in the beginning of the film as he stares down an armed robber who is holding a hostage. This is the last ''Dirty Harry'' film to feature [[Albert Popwell]].