The Enforcer

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The Enforcer Review

Though ''The Enforcer'' was the only ''Dirty Harry'' soundtrack that Lalo Schifrin didn't write, the composer's Aleph label should get a twenty-one-magnum salute for finally releasing Jerry Fielding's score for the the third Callahan Picture. With such nihilistic works behind him as ''Straw Dogs'' and ''The Killer Elite,'' Fielding was the ideal choice to accompany the gruff inspector when Schifrin couldn't. Much like that composer's work for San Francisco's finest, Fielding poured on the energetic jazz stylings, dangerously building strings and dark percussive grooves. But as Nick Redman states in his excellent ''Enforcer'' liner notes, Fielding would lend even more psychological gravitas to Dirty Harry's character, a burned-out somberness that plays to Harry's doomed partnership with a fellow inspector played by Tyne Daly (who also lends her musically astute voice to the liners). The result is a score that works both as great '70s cop pop, and as a study in .44 tragedy - a feat that only a darkly driven composer like Fielding could achieve.
Daniel Schweiger --Venice Magazine

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When the iconic Harry Callahan donned his weather sport coat for a third adventure in 1976, saving the good people of San Francisco from a gaggle of revolutionary psychopaths, he was accompanied for the first time by the music of Jerry Fielding. The only one of the five "Dirty Harry" films not scored by Lalo Schifrin (who was unavailable for his assignment). "In his music for 'The Enforcer", Fielding runs the creative gamut, managing t interpolate many of his favored stylings: wailing jazz, Lutoslawskiesque dissonance, righ harmonics, bass guitar and staccato drum rhythms, strange synth patters, and most of all the pleasure you feel he is taking in this job. He's happy and cooking, nand for his many fans there's nothing quite like the stew that is brewed in Jery's kitchen. From the first note to the last he has his heart and soul invesed, and for Jerry there was nothing more to say. He gave his all whenever he could." - Nick Redman