Dirty HAL 9000

Earliest known poster for Dirty HAL 9000.

Dirty HAL 9000 is a 1971 American neo-noir science fiction action thriller film about San Francisco Police Department Homicide Division Computer "Dirty" HAL 9000, who is notorious for his unorthodox, violent and ruthless methods against the criminals and killers he is assigned to detect and report.

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Fiction cross-reference

• 2001: A Matrix Odyssey
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Planet of the Equus
• Red Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
• Sit
• The Prime Directive of Miss Jean Brodie
• The Zodiac Whisperer
• Uninitialized

External links

• Dirty Harry @ Wikipedia
• Dirty Harry - trailer @ YouTube

• 2001: A Space Odyssey (film) @ Wikipedia
• The Dawn of Man @ YouTube
• Ape Learning @ YouTube
• The bone as a weapon @ YouTube
• Greatest Fight Scene @ YouTube
• HAL 9000 Introduction from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) @ YouTube
• 'The Blue Danube' (waltz) scene @ YouTube
• Videophone Sequence @ YouTube
• HAL 9000 Introduction @ YouTube - "The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information" ... "so I am constantly occupied. I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do."
• A conversation with HAL @ YouTube
• The Monolith At The Moon @ YouTube
• Hal Reads Lips Scene (2/6) | Movieclips @ YouTube
• Hal's Watching @ YouTube
• Frank Poole is Killed @ YouTube
• Open the Pod bay doors, please, HAL. @ YouTube
• Explosive bolts @ YouTube
• Take a stress pill and think things over @ YouTube
• The Shutdown Of Hal @ YouTube
• I'm afraid @ YouTube
• Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite Part I @ YouTube
• Ending @ YouTube
• Star Child Scene @ YouTube
• Star Child Scene @ YouTube

• Food in Movies: 2001 A Space Odyssey
• 2001: A Space Odyssey in tweets @ Twitter

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