What would happen if you put a cowboy in New York City. Coogan (Clint Eastwood) comes to the big city with an agenda. He is at his best in a pre-Dirty Harry movie. His actions are the same. He is a lawman who doesn't play by the rules, resorting to serious violence when he doesn't get the cooperation he wants. The key here is the whole Eastwood persona. He speaks in that guttural voice, almost a whisper. When he talks, people listen. He runs into some punks of course, and needs to teach them a lesson. He also has to go underground, dealing with some women who have no trouble engaging the big guy. Lately, Eastwood has really been ticking me off, but I have to admit that he has had quite a career.

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 ****/*****

I believe Clint Eastwood started to emerge as the 1970's lead action star with his starring role in Coogan's Bluff. Don Siegel directed this absolute action movie which is a great representation of what action movies were about for the next decade or so. Clint Eastwood starred in a few of director Don Siegel's action movies, and I am sure Clint absorbed a lot of his talents as a director from watching Mr Siegel's work behind the camera. Clint plays an Arizona deputy sheriff sent to the big apple to pick up and return to Arizona a very dangerous murderer. The opening scenes of this movie have Clint chasing another on the run criminal in the mountains of Arizona and reflect Clint's unorthodox methods of hunting and capturing dangerous criminals.The Toronto, Ontario born actress Susan Clark was not only exceptionally attractive playing opposite to Clint Eastwood as his main love interest, but as a result of her complimenting the camera, she starred opposite many lead actors in the years to follow. After starring opposite NFL football star Alex Karras in the biography Babe, she married Mr. Karras in 1980 and remained with him until his death in October 2012. Don Stroud as the escaped murderer on the run, and Lee J Cobb as the lead New York investigator added depth to their characters and helped round out a strong castThis movie contains a good musical score, lot's of action, and lots of Clint Eastwood at his bad ass best. It is a classic action movie that helped Clint Eastwood and Susan Clark sustain long and endearing movie careers.

The first in a series of films that starred Clint Eastwood and directed by Don Siegel, they both worked together again for the films Two Mules for Sister Sara, The Beguiled, Dirty Harry and Escape from Alcatraz (might count Play Misty for Me as Clint gave Don a cameo role).Coogan's Bluff stars Clint as Sheriff Coogan who gets sent to New York City from Arizona to pick up a fugitive who is wanted for murder.The character Coogan is definitely a lot like the more iconic character Harry Callahan which came along a few years later in Dirty Harry. This is from a time though when Clint was just best known for the Dollars trilogy and the TV series Rawhide which makes it interesting to watch as it's Clint's first successful attempt to step outside the western and war genres.The film itself is pretty much a western but set in modern times and it works well. If you love the Dirty Harry films or a fan of Clint Eastwood or Don Siegel (or both), you'll love this one.