Tagline: Don't mess with this ''Dirty Harriet''!. Title reference. The movie was re-titled 'Dirty Harriet' when released on home video in the UK during the 1980s.
The protagonist of the rape revenge in 'Sudden Impact' (1983), which was the 4th Dirty Harry film, was the Jennifer Spencer woman character played by Sondra Locke. 'Sudden Death' has a similar title to 'Sudden Impact' and was made and first released just a couple of years after 'Sudden Impact'. 'Sudden Death' is also a rape revenge film like 'Sudden Impact' and one of its taglines is even ''Don't mess with this 'Dirty Harriet'!''.