Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

You know it's going to be a clunker when you see the screenplay-by-committee, based-on-an-idea-by credits--bad enough--and then you realize you never heard of ANY of these 4 guys. Somebody had a light-bulb moment and said "Let's make a Clint Eastwood cowboy movie set in NYC!" Then got the $$. Then got Don Siegel who must've been recovering from surgery because I had trouble keeping my eyes open--as he must have as well. Then: save some $$ by filming street scenes on the Universal lot and not on actual streets like a cheesy TV sitcom. Add some phony bloody face makeup. Then: finish with a dumb motorcycle drive around Inwood Hill Park (that apparently was really filmed there) with a nothing ending. Oh, and let's not forget: have one revolting misogynistic scene after another, including some ha-ha about elder rape. Bleh.

(Originally reviewed: 10/02/2017) Clint Eastwood's first and hopefully only awful film. Coogan's Bluff holds a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and so I thought well this has a fair chance of being a classic, but to my disbelief as soon as the film continued to progress I hated it even more than I did when it started. Eastwood is probably the only good thing about this film, or maybe his performance and some of the classic 60's background music that fit's the film quite well, but it cannot work too well if the film it plays in, is as disgusting as this one. I'll keep this short as the positives are already out of the way, the entire supporting cast which were so forgettable do not deserve a mention and they were mostly playing stupid, crazy or laughably bad characters. The first truly morally incorrect scene start's when a female police officer is being groped in plain sight at a police station with plenty of witnesses, and during this scene the creep says "I can feel your heart", it made me sick to my stomach, this guy was not her lover he was a stranger and I don't care what era you're in, you have no right to touch another person inappropriately without their consent. But what really annoys me is that when Eastwood saves the day, by punching that jerk in the face, she starts shouting at him, telling him to apologise and I kept thinking so the women in this film are portrayed as mere objects and there happy to let someone touch there boobs without consent? This film is so wrong, if you did that in real life you would be facing a suspended hearing before a judge. The film isn't even a chase it's like a bad police drama with a final chase sequence, and there's even a nightclub scene involving junkies and loonies; now Coogan (Eastwood) thinks that for some suitable info, he should ask these drugged up mental patients, always a good idea; and while he's trying to get them to talk, one of them even pulls out a blade and Eastwood is ready, which is laughably clichéd, later on he goes with the female nutcase to find the escaped criminal, in which she leads him into an ambush and a severe beating; who would of thought a drug addict and a nutcase could be lying? Rarely am I sarcastic but here is a film that is so dumb it's required to do so. Special mention to that crazy woman getting used as an object, insulted by her so called 'boyfriend' and shouting "Jimmy" loudly three times; when she shouts Jimmy I can't deny I laughed because it's unintentionally hilarious and shows how awful she was.Every scene has some corny, forgettable one liners, it's not funny, there's even a joke from some ugly old hag who shouts some nonsense that I somehow can't remember. Coogan's Bluff is not an action film or even an entertaining one, it's a clichéd worse than usual bore-fest, with ugliness, sexism, a forgettable villain and a laughably lame final sequence. This is the only Eastwood film I actually despise.

Here Clint Eastwood gets to bring a little of the Western into an urban jungle, playing the title character, an Arizona deputy with his own way of doing things. His sheriff (Tom Tully) is tired of him, but assigns him the task of extraditing a criminal named Ringerman (Don Stroud), who's being held in NYC. Disgusted with the amount of red tape that he's obliged to wade through, Coogan obtains Ringerman through false pretenses - and then the young mans' associates get the drop on him, and Ringerman escapes. However, Coogan isn't about to let a little wounded pride get to him, as he continues to frustrate police lieutenant McElroy (Lee J. Cobb) with his methods of tracking a wanted man.Clint is a lot of fun to watch, showing off that natural screen presence that made him a star. He makes the most out of what many people agree to be a predecessor to his iconic screen role of Dirty Harry. The movie itself, produced & directed by Clints' frequent collaborator Don Siegel, works as a "fish out of water" type of story in which different approaches to law enforcement clash, and where the environment has a pivotal part to play. Use of various NYC locations is great, and Lalo Schifrins' music score is excellent. The climactic motorcycle chase is reasonably exciting, but the most striking scene of all has to be when Coogan tails Ringermans' lady friend Linny Raven (Tisha Sterling) to a nightclub. Among the images on the big screen there is a shot from "Tarantula", in which Clint had a small uncredited role.There's a great sexual chemistry between Clint and well-meaning probation officer Julie Roth (sexy Susan Clark); he also works well with Sterling, who's a delight as a cheery hippie chick. Stroud unfortunately doesn't get a lot to do, the way that the story is written, but the supporting cast, led by the always solid Cobb, includes familiar faces such as Betty Field, James Edwards, David Doyle, Louis Zorich, Seymour Cassel, Albert Popwell (who would go on to appear in four of the "Dirty Harry" movies), and Conrad Bain.A well paced and consistently entertaining movie, "Coogan's Bluff" later evolved into the 'McCloud' TV series with Dennis Weaver.Seven out of 10.

The raw violence in this film wasn't anything spectacular, but it was a foreshadowing of what was to come in the future.This film started a 10 year relationship between Eastwood and director Don Siegel. They would go on to do four more films, including Dirty Harry.You can contrast Eastwood's cool Coogan with the hokey McCloud that followed with Dennis Weaver.It's Harry Callhan with out a gun, so it is interesting from a historical perspective in the Eastwood acting career.It is also interesting to see the culture of the time being the Woodstock era.