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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Coogan's Bluff
1968
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Director: Don Siegel
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark, Tisha Sterling, Don Stroud, Betty Field

Walt Coogan is a small town sheriff who goes to New York City to fetch a man charged with murder. Coogan is a man who doesn't care for bureaucracy, he just wants to get the job done, pretty much like Clint's signature character Dirty Harry a few years later. This entertaining but unremarkable film mixes fish out of water elements into a predictable good small town vs. bad big city story. The first of five films Clint Eastwood and Don Siegel made together.