Jamie Spraggon
This movie is about an Arizona sheriff (EASTWOOD) who accompanies his extradited prisoner and loses him in Manhattan. Coogan (EASTWOOD) must find his prisoner during this film Eastwood meets pimps,crooks,hippies and cops along the way. This film featured Clint Eastwood, Susan Clark, Don Stroud & lee.J.Cobb and was directed by Don Siegal.In my opinion this was a smart career move by Eastwood to take on the role of Coogan i can't see another person who would have played the role as well as Eastwood. A very good film with very good actors and a great director 90 minutes well spent watching this film, I highly recommend this film ****/*****
dushyant chaturvedi
Eastwood is a sheriff's deputy from Arizona who is sent to New York to bring back a fugitive from law. Now this story line conjures up the vision of dramatic chases and action sequences, just like a typical Clint movie. However, this is different as the stress is more on the romantic side of Eastwood and his relation with Susan Clark, who works in the NYPD. Clint is pretty good in his role as the well mannered deputy. Lee J. Cobb as the lieutenant of the state police is cast perfectly. It is the script which actually proves to be the Achilles heel. Right from the name of the movie which is taken from one of the minor events in the flick to the resolution, the viewer feels disappointed. This was Don Siegel's first collaboration with Eastwood before the Dirty Harry series and the result is far from satisfying. However, it is Eastwood who really keeps you glued to the screen. 3 out of 5 for this. Recommended only for die hard Eastwood fans.
Ben Larson
The raw violence in this film wasn't anything spectacular, but it was a foreshadowing of what was to come in the future.This film started a 10 year relationship between Eastwood and director Don Siegel. They would go on to do four more films, including Dirty Harry.You can contrast Eastwood's cool Coogan with the hokey McCloud that followed with Dennis Weaver.It's Harry Callhan with out a gun, so it is interesting from a historical perspective in the Eastwood acting career.It is also interesting to see the culture of the time being the Woodstock era.
tforbes-2
What struck me about "Coogan's Bluff" is Clint Eastwood's performance. Here, he plays a cocky Arizona deputy who has little regard for his prisoner, as well as for acting on the directive of his superior in his home area.As a result, he gets sent to New York to retrieve a prisoner.And the "fish out of water" gets an education and then some.This film may have been a prototype of the "McCloud" television series, for sure. While there are elements I see from the "Dirty Harry" series of films, his character here is more the Arizona cowboy who has a sense of propriety than the San Francisco detective he portrays later on. For example, he reacts badly toward a parolee who is fondling Susan Clark's breast, early in the movie.The film is an education both for Coogan, and for his New York counterparts: By the end of the movie, he treats his prisoner (Don Stroud) with respect, offering him a cigarette (obviously something WAYYY dated), Lee J. Cobb learns to respect the Arizona deputy and Susan Clark clearly cares for the Arizona deputy.Its flaws notwithstanding (not all of the New York scenes were filmed there; some were done on a back lot in Hollywood), I consider this one of Clint Eastwood's best performances, playing an Arizona deputy, warts and all. And you gotta love the vintage footage of New York in late 1967, when this was filmed!!
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