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a5c7b9f00b Coogan, an Arizona cop, is sent to New York to collect a prisoner. Everyone in New York assumes Coogan is from Texas, much to his annoyance. To add to Coogan&#39;s problems the prisoner isn&#39;t ready, so he decides to cut a few corners. In the process the prisoner escapes, and Coogan is ordered home. Too proud to return home empty handed, Coogan sets out into the big city to recapture his prisoner. Coogan&#39;s an Arizona deputy sheriff, who doesn&#39;t get along with his boss and doesn&#39;t exactly do things by the book, and also a little arrogant. Fed up with his rugged individualness, his boss sends him to New York to get a man who&#39;s waiting to extradited. Upon arriving everybody thinks he&#39;s just another bumpkin. When the New York Police Lieutenant tells him that his prisoner is still not ready to be transported, Coogan tries to be patient. But when he decides that he can&#39;t wait anymore, he tricks one of the attendants into releasing the prisoner and at the airport someone springs him. Coogan&#39;s boss is pleased that he has screwed up so bad, and orders him to return but Coogan feeling responsible or his ego has been bruised stays and tries to find despite being warn by the Lieutenant that he has no authority here. The transition is pretty obvious - the film starts out in the sagebrush before landing in the big apple. Clint Eastwood is ready to ease off the spurs and try crunching some pavement.<br/><br/>Playing the same general role under the same director just a few years apart, comparisons between Coogan&#39;s Bluff and the subsequent masterpiece Dirty Harry are unavoidable. Though closely related and crucial to the development of the latter, this movie is quite different. It reeks of the &#39;60s (in a groovy, sometimes psychedelic way), and it&#39;s our last glimpse at a younger, less world-weary Clint. The pacing is more laid-back and the stakes are lower. Undeniably tough and smart, it&#39;s still plain to see that our protagonist hasn&#39;t quite come into his own in an urban setting. (That&#39;s part of the intended charm of this picture. But just you wait!)<br/><br/>If not a monumental work, Coogan&#39;s Bluff is still perfectly enjoyable. The characters are all fun and the action unfolds quickly enough. There are some good fights and a rather exciting chase. Overall, it&#39;s a fitting beginning to a very fruitful collaboration between Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel. Clint Eastwood has always been one of the most career-savvy superstars of all time. Looking over his filmography, since his career breakthrough it is obvious he has never done a film strictly for the money and has solid reasons behind every film he has made. Even his worst films have a purpose: &quot;The Rookie,&quot; for instance, which most people would agree is a career low, was obviously made to satisfy the brass at Warner Bros. by delivering a modern-day Dirty Harry clone so he would be left alone to work on his Academy Award-winning classic &quot;Unforgiven,&quot; which came out two years later. So it is with &quot;Coogan&#39;s Bluff,&quot; which most viewers would probably dismiss as second-rate Eastwood, but in reality served as a savvy bridge from Westerns (the type of genre he was primarily known for at the time) into more modern day roles.<br/><br/>As directed by his mentor Don Siegel, &quot;Coogan&#39;s Bluff&quot; actually opens in the Arizona desert, which strongly resembles the background of his spaghetti westerns. Indeed, the first character we see is a loincloth-attired man, who appears to be Indian, so the audience is tricked into thinking they&#39;re watching a western. Then, we see a jeep driving down a dirt road, with a stetson-wearing Clint at the wheel. He is Dept. Sheriff Coogan, and there we see our first view of Clint as a modern lawman. It isn&#39;t long before he&#39;s in New York City, chasing down an escaped extradited criminal (Don Stroud), romancing a beautiful parole officer (Susan Clark) and butting heads with a strong-willed police captain (Lee J.Cobb, a terrific, yet sadly forgotten character actor of the day). Therefore, in a matter of fifteen minutes, Siegel cleverly introduces Eastwood as a contemporary figure, a transition that will be complete when he returns to modern times three years later in his most famous role, &quot;Dirty Harry&quot; Callahan.<br/><br/>But &quot;Coogan&#39;s Bluff&quot; is an enjoyable film on its own terms. Eastwood at times is very funny here--his retort to an unethical cab driver is priceless--and the film moves along at a brisk pace. Just don&#39;t expect action galore or a high body count. Clint doesn&#39;t kill anybody here; there&#39;s no broad conspiracy or mystery to solve; his job is simply to find the prisoner and take him home. In fact, the film is at its best when its dealing with Coogan as a fish-out-of-water, dealing with various New York thieves, crooks, drug dealers, hippies, and the aforementioned cab driver. There is, however, a well-choreographed fight scene in a bar and an exciting motorcycle chase for a climax, but that&#39;s as much action as there is. It&#39;s also pretty short for an Eastwood film: where most of his films run over two hours, this one clocks in at a brisk 94 minutes, next to &quot;Joe Kidd&quot; and &quot;The Dead Pool,&quot; one of his shortest adventures.<br/><br/>So there you have it, a &quot;minor&quot; effort that served a &quot;major&quot; purpose in what has become an important Hollywood career. *** (out of *****)