Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Police, Escape, Thieves, Outlaws, Detectives, Suspense, Culture Clash, Cult Classic
Tagline: Before "Dirty Harry"... there was Coogan.
Plot: This fish-out-of-water film was the beginning of a long association between Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood, who stars as the eponymous deputy sheriff from Arizona. The cowboy-cop is sent to New York City to extradite escaped murderer James Ringerman (Don Stroud), only to be told by police lieutenant McElroy (Lee J. Cobb) that the killer is recovering from an acid trip at Bellevue Hospital and can be released only with his doctors' approval. After some low-key flirtation with probation officer Julie Roth (Susan Clark), Coogan decides to take the bull by the horns and tricks Ringerman's Bellevue attendants into releasing him. However, on the way to the airport, the Arizona-bound cop is waylaid by Ringerman's amusingly wacked-out girlfriend, Linny (Tisha Sterling), and beaten senseless by a goon, allowing his prisoner to escape. Later, while in Julie's apartment, he surreptitiously extracts Linny's file to get her address and tracks her to an Electric Circus-like club whose habitués he regards with utter disdain, and he persuades the ditsy woman to take him back to her apartment. An amusing action film, COOGAN'S BLUFF makes much of the irony of the laconic Old West, with Eastwood being equally put off by both the bureaucratically hamstrung cops and the acid-fueled hippies. Cobb and
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| Directed by |
Don Siegel
Dirty Harry, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Escape from Alcatraz |
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| Cast |
Clint Eastwood
Million Dollar Baby, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Unforgiven |
 | Lee J. Cobb
The Exorcist, 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront |
 | Seymour Cassel
The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Rushmore |
 | Susan Clark
Porky's, Airport 1975, Colossus: The Forbin Project | Tisha Sterling
The Whales of August, Village of the Giants, Dark Horse | Don Stroud
Licence to Kill, The Amityville Horror, Armed and Dangerous | | |
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| Music By |
Lalo Schifrin
Mission: Impossible II, Mission: Impossible, Rush Hour |
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