Coogan's Bluff
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Donald Siegel
Clint Eastwood
Lee J. Cobb
Susan Clark
Tisha Sterling
Don Stroud
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Arizona Deputy Sheriff Walt Coogan is sent to New York City to extradite escaped killer James Ringerman. Accustomed to getting his man in the old-West tradition, Coogan is frustrated by legal snarls when Manhattan Detective Lieutenant McElroy tells him Ringerman is at Bellevue Hospital recuperating from an overdose of LSD and cannot be moved until the doctors release him. After whiling away some time with probation officer Julie Roth, Coogan bluffs his way into Bellevue and tricks the attendants into handing Ringerman over to him. On the way to the airport to catch a plane for Arizona, however, he is outwitted by Ringerman's freaked-out girl friend Linny and beaten unconscious by a thug, and Ringerman escapes. Now Coogan tries another tack; he visits Julie in her apartment, gets Linny's address from Julie's files, and tracks her to a psychedelic club. After accompanying Linny back to her apartment, he makes love to her and extracts from her a promise to lead him to Ringerman. Instead, she takes him to a pool hall where he is attacked in a bloody battle with pool balls and cues. Coogan returns to Linny's apartment and, by knocking her around, bluffs her into believing he'll kill her if she does not lead him to Ringerman. She takes him to the Cloisters where Ringerman, armed with a gun stolen from Coogan, attempts to escape on his motorcycle. But Coogan gives chase on another cycle and then on foot until he eventually tackles his man. When McElroy and his men arrive, Coogan claims he is making a citizen's arrest. Later, as he and Ringerman wait on top of the Pan Am Building for the helicopter that will take them to the airport and on to Arizona, Julie runs up to say goodbye.
Director
Donald Siegel
Cast
Clint Eastwood
Lee J. Cobb
Susan Clark
Tisha Sterling
Don Stroud
Betty Field
Tom Tully
Melodie Johnson
James Edwards
Rudy Diaz
David Doyle
Louis Zorich
Meg Myles
Marjorie Bennett
Seymour Cassel
John Coe
Skip Battyn
Albert Popwell
Conrad Bain
James Gavin
Albert Henderson
James Mccallion
Syl Lamont
Jess Osuna
Jerry Summers
Antonia Rey
Marya Henriques
Crew
John Austin
Paul Baxley
Jack Bolger
Lyle Cain
Joseph Cavalier
Helen Colvig
Larry Germain
Alexander Golitzen
Scott Hale
Wally Holmes
Robert E. Larson
Irving Leonard
Richard E. Lyons
Robert Mackichan
John Mccarthy Jr.
Herman Miller
Herman Miller
Dean Riesner
Howard Rodman
Lalo Schifrin
Lalo Schifrin
Donald Siegel
Bud Thackery
Universal Titlese
Waldon O. Watson
Sam E. Waxman
Bud Westmore
Stanley Wilson
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
I only handle young, single women.- Julie
Yeah. Me too.- Coogan
Need a bigger target?- Woman
There ain't any in this county.- Coogan
Trivia
When Coogan is searching the New York nightclub, the large screen plays a scene from Tarantula, a horror flick in which Clint Eastwood had an uncredited role in 1955.
man in an elevator.
Notes
Copyright length: 100 min. Location scenes filmed in New York City.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Fall October 2, 1968
Released in United States on Video May 5, 1988
Re-released in United States on Video May 23, 1995
Formerly distributed by MCA Home Video.
Film marks first collaboration between Siegel and Eastwood, which led to the "Dirty Harry" series and others.
Released in United States on Video May 5, 1988
Re-released in United States on Video May 23, 1995
Released in United States Fall October 2, 1968
