Did anyone else find parts disturbing?

I saw the film Dirty Harry when it first came out, and have seen it afew times since, but not only did I hear Scorpio calling the black bartender a "black son of a bitch", but, at one point in the film, even before that, Scorpio left the SFPD a note explicitly using the N-word, about the next person that he planned to kill.

I, too found the football field scene rather creepy, and the fact that Harry, just generally constantly went to excesses and didn't respect the right of criminals to have counsel, and to have fair trials was also rather unnerving.

The bus scene was also rather unnerving, and I had no doubt that Scorpio would've shot up and killed everybody on that bus, including the woman who drove the bus if they didn't comply or cooperate with him in any way.

Overall, however, I found the fact that Harry had blown the chance to bring a dangerous serial killer (i. e. "Scorpio") to justice before the law, and to possibly have him put away behind bars for life without parole, due to Harry's excesses, rather bothersome, not because I sympathized with Scorpio, but because it caused undue suffering for everybody on the long run, and it proved that cops sometimes violate the laws that they have sworn to uphold, and degrade the people that they've sworn to protect.

Same reason they sympathize with cop killers on the loose like Chris Dorner, it's bizarre.

Y'know, I could eat a peach for hours

For me the most disturbing part is when Scorpio pays the black guy to beat him up and calls him the N word to make it worse. It's not necessarily graphic or anything but just the idea of him paying someone to beat him up is really messed up.

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I will date myself. I saw Dirty Harry first run at the theater in 1971. With my father. I was maybe a little too young for some of that disturbing material, but overall, I loved the excitement and action of the movie, and so did my father.

But we BOTH freaked out, and creeped out, and looked at each other nervously as that scene with the black guy appeared. Its no fun for a father and son to have to experience such a creepy scene together.

Here's the thing: I thought as it first developed -- and the black guy put the rubber glove on -- that we were about to experience some sort of SEX scene. And what's creepy is that, as the scene proceeds, it rather IS like a "violent" version OF a sex session between a man and a hooker. Scorpio asks "for his money's worth" -- gets it -- and then proceeds to insult the black man near the end. Which leads to more brutality from the black man as he kicks Scorpio and says "this one is on the house." Again, the transactional nature of the scene suggests a sex for money scene.

Scorpio's mangled, blood mask of a face in this scene was creepy, too. Time Magazine did an article on "violence in the movies" and used a photo of Andy Robinson's face here to make their case for "ultra-violence is here."