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Coogan's Bluff (1968)

An Arizona deputy goes to New York City to escort a fugitive back into custody.

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(as Donald Siegel)

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(screenplay), (screenplay) | 2 more credits »
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Cast

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Julie Roth
Tisha Sterling ...
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James Ringerman
Betty Field ...
Ellen Ringerman
Tom Tully ...
Melodie Johnson ...
Millie
James Edwards ...
Sgt. Jackson
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Running Bear
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Pushie (as David F. Doyle)
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Taxi Driver
Meg Myles ...
Big Red
Marjorie Bennett ...
Mrs. Fowler
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Young Hood
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Storyline

Coogan, an Arizona cop, is sent to New York to collect a prisoner. Everyone in New York assumes Coogan is from Texas, much to his annoyance. To add to Coogan's problems the prisoner isn't ready, so he decides to cut a few corners. In the process the prisoner escapes, and Coogan is ordered home. Too proud to return home empty handed, Coogan sets out into the big city to recapture his prisoner. Written by Rob Hartill

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Clint Eastwood gives New York 24 hours... to get out of town! See more »

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Action | Thriller

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Release Date:

2 October 1968 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Coogans großer Bluff  »

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Sound Mix:

(Westrex Recording System)

Color:

(Technicolor) (uncredited)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1
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Trivia

Last film role for Betty Field. See more »

Goofs

During the motorcycle chase, when Coogan follows Ringerman's motorcycle up two short flights of stone steps in the park, the stunt rider for Clint Eastwood clearly badly clips the stone wall with the right handlebar and loses control as he tries to make the right turn off the top flight. The film cuts to another shot before what would have been the inevitable crash. See more »

Quotes

Mrs. Ellen Ringerman: [angry] Hey, wait a minute. You think you can come in here and write down a name and put on that fancy hat and just go? You know what you are?
Coogan: Fancy.
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Connections

Referenced in Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' (1992) See more »

Soundtracks

Pigeon-Toed Orange Peel
Lyrics by Wally Holmes
Music by Lalo Schifrin
Sung by The Pigeon-Toed Orange Peels
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'McCloud' With Some Sleaze
10 May 2006 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

In this breakout year when films could dump most of their restrictions, this inspiration for the hit television series McCloud, dumped a couple and went the low road on a few things.

The language still was pretty tame but it had a big-time sleazy atmosphere with a bunch of unlikeable characters. Susan Clark played a lot of these kind of roles in the late '60s to about 1980. Clint Eastwood and Don Stroud are the male leads and Eastwood fits the mold as a tough Arizona lawman going to New York City to bring back an escaped convict. This kind of set of the stage, I think, for his Dirty Harry series which began a couple of years after this.

The story moves well and has some good action scenes, but, man, you can tell it is the late '60s and no longer the "classic era" in Hollywood with the nudity and no one with any moral standards.


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