Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Steineded How sad is this?

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

alexanderdavies-99382 "Coogan's Bluff" was the first time Clint Eastwood worked with Don Siegel and the film certainly delivers. A mere rating of 6.5 doesn't do "Coogan's Bluff" justice. There is some good action, a pretty good story and great direction. I can see that the budget for the film was rather sparse but I didn't let that deter me from enjoying the first of five collaborations from this talented combination. Clint Eastwood and Don Siegel complimented each other very well. It's always good to see character actors like Lee J. Cobb as the tough New York cop.

TonyMontana96 (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.

slightlymad22 Coogans Bluff (1968)Plot In A Paragraph: Coogan (Eastwood) an Arizona deputy, goes to New York City to escort a fugitive back into custody.Before Hang Em High had been released, Eastwood had set to work on this movie, a project which saw him reunite with Universal Studios after an offer of $1 million, more than doubling his previous salary.The thing I like most about this movie was it's tag line "Clint Eastwood gives New York 24 hours to get out of town"Outside of saying it's the first time Clint worked with Don Siegel, there is not much to say here, it's a pretty generic fish out of water cop movie. We do get a decent motorbike chase at the end, with Clint visibly doing his own stunts. His character seemed a bit like James Bond early on, in that he handcuffs a prisoner to a porch so he can go and have sex with a woman. Once again we get early shades of Dirty Harry in Clint's character, as Coogan does not have much respect for his superiors or the rules and prefers to go it alone. Future Dirty Harry actor Albert Popwell has a small role here too. Coogan's Bluff continued the trend of each Eastwood movie grossing less than the last, with a $3 million domestic gross.

Ben Larson 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.