IF James Dean had lived to grow a few inches taller and to attain a lean, graceful, movie middle-age (anything from his late 20's to his 60's), and if he had been tranquilized beyond all emotion, the result would have been Clint Eastwood, one of the movie phenomena of today. A decent enough movie, but not like Madigan. Steve Coogan. You can see the genesis of the Dirty Harry films that were to come. Episode 01. Now more an historical document, the joys are seeing a vanished New York and a younger Clint. Nice score by Lalo Schifrin. Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2018. There was also a temptation to drift into satire or romance and consume time but in turn so you changed the pace of the story and drifted away it. You can see the outline of Dirty Harry taking shape in Coogan. [4][5] The Brush Stairway was named in honor of the owner of the Giants franchise from 1890 until his death in 1912. City bus routes Bx6, Bx6 SBS, M2 and M10 service the area as well.[10]. In "Coogan's Bluff," the contemporary melodrama that opened yesterday at the DeMille and Loew's Orpheum Theaters, Eastwood plays an Arizona sheriff (Coogan), a sort of "Cactus Jim" Bond, who comes to New York to extradite a local hood for trial back home. movie trailer, image gallery with rare promotional material, My Cinema Retro colleague and respected film maker Mike Siegel has already previewed this release in his native Germany and it all sounds very. Coogan's Bluff (1968) Full Cast & Crew. I'm one of the few people I know who will publicly admit to having liked the Sergio Leone, Italian-Spanish Westerns ("A Fistful of Dollars," etc.) Coogan's Run. Travelling or based outside United States? The fish out of water scenario as Coogan (dressed in stetson and cowboy boots) confronts the pecularities of the Big Apple. Coogan's Bluff is a bit less tough than its successor: it's not nearly as violent, has less action overall (really, just a climactic chase sequence), and a considerably sunnier sense of humor, though the list of films that are funnier than Dirty Harry is awfully long. I was a young boy in the 1970's [it's great! The earliest known published reference to "Coogan's Bluff" appeared in The New York Times in 1893.[1][2]. Predecessor to Dirty Harry Films...A Bit of A Warm Up! I was very curious about the rare interview from 1970, and wondered if it is the Universal featurette 'Clint Eastwood at Home'? Nothing fancy, nothing insightful, nothing of artistic merit. Like some of the most popular movie stars of the past (Alan Ladd, for example), Eastwood doesn't act in motion pictures; he is framed in them. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Coogan's Bluff is a 1968 American action film directed by Don Siegel, and starring Clint Eastwood, Melodie Johnson, Lee J. Cobb, Don Stroud and Susan Clark. 1:59. Coogan's Bluff is a 1968 Universal film starring Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Seymour Cassel and Susan Clark and directed by Don Siegel.Eastwood plays the part of a young veteran deputy sheriff from a rural county in Arizona who travels to New York City to extradite an apprehended fugitive named Ringerman, played by Don Stroud, who is wanted for murder. 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On All videos Location… Those of us who are Clint-a-holics, in my case from the 60's, this one is not as good as his usual - Dirty Harry etc, but still better than most from back then, except for McQueen and Bronson movies. that made Eastwood an international star. In this case Eastwood plays a Sheriff sent to extradite a prisoner and finds a new frontier in NYC. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 19, 2016. The complex was completed on June 30, 1968, and is run by the New York City Housing Authority. 26:28. It is nice to see that some sort of effort has been made to bring us some additional extras. Not one of clint eastoowds most memorable films In my opinion, it's ok, just not a great film.picture and sound very good. Comparing this as a prelude to Dirty Harry is rather missleading. A template for the 1970's TV series McCloud, this film presages the coming of the original terminator, Dirty Harry, a few years late. In a world of shabby precinct stations, posh apartments, strobe-lighted discothèques and Hollywood-style New York hippies, Eastwood becomes an unconscious parody of himself and, for that matter, of all movie superheroes. Steeley eyed, a lover of women (Susan Clark and Tisha Sterling), Fighting gangs of thugs, riding around on a motorbike chasing a veryy OTT Don Stroud. . At the DeMille Theater, Broadway and 47th Street, and Loew's Orpheum, 86th Street at Third Avenue. Recomended for a lockdown viewing. Coordinates: 40°49′57″N 73°56′21″W / 40.8326°N 73.9393°W / 40.8326; -73.9393, Promontory near the western shore of the Harlem River, "A Stairway to Sports History From the Polo Grounds", "Yankees had homes before becoming Bronx Bombers", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coogan%27s_Bluff&oldid=948167909, Pages using New York City Subway service templates, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 30 March 2020, at 14:35. deaddogsmoking. Watch Full movie Unforgiven (1992) Online Free.Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and. The screenplay (by Herman Miller, Dean Riesner and Howard Rodman) is so predictable in situation and so arch in its supposedly tough, blunt, wise talk that it turns into a joke told by someone with no sense of humour. The end motorcycle chase, where Clint rudes a '67 Triumph Bonneville, is well worth a watch. Banner 24" x 81", Below: Coogan's Bluff U.S. Half Sheet poster, Below: The beautiful Coogan's Bluff Italian Folio poster, Below: Coogan's Bluff new cinema poster, 2010 re-release style, Above: Some Great Japanese Artwork from Coogan's Bluff, Below: Some more great shots from Coogan's Bluff, Below: Some rare shots taken during the final scenes, Below: A rare shot of Clint and Don on the set of Coogan's Bluff, photo courtesy of Davy Triumph. imagelinks[7]="thebountyhunter.html" Certainly, along with the previously noted The Warriors (1979), Taxi Driver (1976), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Coogans Bluff (1968) and The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 (1974), this was a film that perversely made me want to visit New York City. Sign in to see videos available to you. The mythic hero of Leone's West looks as out of place in Manhattan as Tarzan might, since he is constantly being upstaged by more colourful minor characters and the restless scenery of the big city. The first of many collaborations between Clint Eastwood and Don Siegel, this, Eastwood's second film after the Dollars trilogy, has him as an Arizona Deputy Sheriff sent to NYC to bring back a wanted criminal. Thanks Mike, appreciate your input. God bless him. in a straightforward manner, partly on Manhattan locations (Fort Tryon Park, the Cloisters, Tavern on the Green, among other places). Directed by (1) Writing credits (4) Cast (53) Produced by (4) Music by (1) Cinematography by (2) Film Editing by (1) Art Direction by (2) Set Decoration by (2) Costume Design by (1) Makeup Department (2) Production Management … It's Clint and action macho man Don Siegal for heaven's sake. Lots of DVDs stamped and plenty usually available at a cheap price. Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2011. In those spare, bloody, nihilistic nightmares, photographed in the powdery colors of the Almeria desert, Eastwood's fathomless cool was framed with style. It would never have gotten made without Coogan's Bluff. His next film was the far shrewder Coogan's Bluff (1968), his first Universal, and the first of five (and-a-half; see below) collaborations between Eastwood and director Don Siegel. It's bloody annoying.