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Coogan's Bluff

1968

Don Siegel

Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark, Tisha Sterling ...

5.9

3,470

Thriller. Action The film opens with Arizona deputy Walt Coogan (Eastwood) on the trail of an Indian fugitive; on catching him, he handcuffs him outside the house of a married woman with whom he is having an affair; but his sheriff catches him in the bath, and as a punishment for his cruelty to his prisoner he is sent to New York to escort back James Ringerman (Don Stroud), who is wanted in Arizona. However, when he arrives in the city he is told by ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"New York cop thriller with a touch of the Westerna and a touch of the Eastwood...and all the better for it."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Siegel knows what he wants and gets it."	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"The screenplay is so predictable in situation and so arch in its supposedly tough, blunt, wise talk that it turns into a joke told by someone with no sense of humor."	NEG

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