Underplayed Gems

Coogan's Bluff (1968)

Coogan's Bluff poster
Directed by
Don Siegel
Genre
drama film, action film, mystery film, thriller film, crime thriller film, buddy cop film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
R
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 371 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A deputy sheriff from Arizona goes to New York City to bring back a fugitive. He struggles with the city's different pace and rules but uses his own methods to get the job done.

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What happens

Coogan's Bluff is a 1968 American crime thriller film directed and produced by Donald Siegel. It stars Clint Eastwood, Susan Clark, Don Stroud, Tisha Sterling, Betty Field, and Lee J. Cobb. The film marks the first of five collaborations between Siegel and Eastwood, which continued with Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), The Beguiled (1971), Dirty Harry (1971), and Escape from Alcatraz (1979). Eastwood plays the part of a veteran deputy sheriff from a rural county in Arizona, who travels to New York City to extradite an apprehended fugitive named Jimmy Ringerman, played by Stroud, who is wanted for murder. The name of the film itself is a reference to a New York City natural landmark, Coogan's Bluff, a promontory in upper Manhattan overlooking the site of the former long-time home of the New York Giants baseball club, the Polo Grounds, with a double meaning derived from the name of the lead character. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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