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Clint Eastwood | ... | ||
Lee J. Cobb | ... | ||
Susan Clark | ... |
Julie Roth
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Tisha Sterling | ... | ||
Don Stroud | ... |
James Ringerman
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Betty Field | ... |
Ellen Ringerman
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Tom Tully | ... | ||
Melodie Johnson | ... |
Millie
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James Edwards | ... |
Sgt. Jackson
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Rudy Diaz | ... |
Running Bear
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David Doyle | ... |
Pushie
(as David F. Doyle)
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Louis Zorich | ... |
Taxi Driver
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Meg Myles | ... |
Big Red
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Marjorie Bennett | ... |
Mrs. Fowler
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Seymour Cassel | ... |
Young Hood
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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
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.