This is one of my favorite Eastwood movies. Clint is on top form as the out of control cop, a theme he revisted in the Dirty Harry series a few years later. Also Don Stroud as Ringerman was excellent. I think Coogan could have been as popular as Dirty Harry. Eastwood never looked better or cooler ( excluding his early spaghetti westerns) it's all about timing... and I think the 70's were right for Harry, but it could so easily be different if the time the films were made had been reversed...
@kingofvintage I like this one too, but it wasn't and couldn't have been as popular. "The Man With No Name" and "Dirty Harry" are heroes to the core audience. Despite all the equally cool and violent machismo (he gets his man), Coogan behaves like and idiot in several instances and gets taught a lesson in the end. Scorpio's numerous innocent victims also add to shifting the sympathies towards the maverick cop completely in way that Ringerman does not.
Coogan is "not" an idiot, he is a fish out of water (that was the character as it was conceived), that's why he appears clumsy and doesn't fit his new environment but as an animal (Coogan likes naturalist images), he adapts and finally overcomes. It's an old theme that opposes the rough country people and the slick city people. Different people, different values (or world's view). The reason why "Coogan's Bluff" was never a big phenomenon was because it was made like a B-movie.
@StefanMiklos This is not only no a b-movie, that doesn't necessarily stop a film from becoming a phenomenon. The chase is necessary only because of Coogan's fault, he gets trapped by Linny TWICE etc. Yes, the hippies are regarded as sick, but McElroy and Julie have new liberal values too and theirs mostly prevail in the end (Coogan submits to the bureaucratic process, he gives Ringerman a cigarette). Coogan is not "Eastwood". I've read reviews. That WAS the problem.
I can clearly see the influence this had on creation Raylan Givens character by author Elmore Leonard.
WithoutRemorse12 2 months ago
One of my alltime fav movies with Clint! Seen a hundred times....:)
MultiGemini666 4 months ago
Heh, the Chief don't like to take bs neither.
cosmicdingo 7 months ago
LSD in the slammer! sounds funky..ive been to jail many times and never fancied tripping inside! tablets,dope,crack yeah but never ACID or speed....
skunkhead2007 11 months ago
Thats my favorite Movie with Clint Eastwood, and he had made a lot of great Movies. 5***** Thx for the Video, good Job.
Besier74 1 year ago
McCLOUUUUUUUUUUD!
bellier20 1 year ago
lol @ 3:12
Cerebralcinema 1 year ago
So awesome, great movie. Where can I find the music for the movie, I've been dying to get my hands on it.
CommentatorJones 1 year ago 2
@CommentatorJones
I advise you to search at the "Soundtrack Collector" site.
StefanMiklos 1 year ago
This is one of my favorite Eastwood movies. Clint is on top form as the out of control cop, a theme he revisted in the Dirty Harry series a few years later. Also Don Stroud as Ringerman was excellent. I think Coogan could have been as popular as Dirty Harry. Eastwood never looked better or cooler ( excluding his early spaghetti westerns) it's all about timing... and I think the 70's were right for Harry, but it could so easily be different if the time the films were made had been reversed...
kingofvintage 2 years ago 2
@kingofvintage I like this one too, but it wasn't and couldn't have been as popular. "The Man With No Name" and "Dirty Harry" are heroes to the core audience. Despite all the equally cool and violent machismo (he gets his man), Coogan behaves like and idiot in several instances and gets taught a lesson in the end. Scorpio's numerous innocent victims also add to shifting the sympathies towards the maverick cop completely in way that Ringerman does not.
aplantage 1 year ago
@aplantage
Coogan is "not" an idiot, he is a fish out of water (that was the character as it was conceived), that's why he appears clumsy and doesn't fit his new environment but as an animal (Coogan likes naturalist images), he adapts and finally overcomes. It's an old theme that opposes the rough country people and the slick city people. Different people, different values (or world's view). The reason why "Coogan's Bluff" was never a big phenomenon was because it was made like a B-movie.
StefanMiklos 1 year ago
@StefanMiklos This is not only no a b-movie, that doesn't necessarily stop a film from becoming a phenomenon. The chase is necessary only because of Coogan's fault, he gets trapped by Linny TWICE etc. Yes, the hippies are regarded as sick, but McElroy and Julie have new liberal values too and theirs mostly prevail in the end (Coogan submits to the bureaucratic process, he gives Ringerman a cigarette). Coogan is not "Eastwood". I've read reviews. That WAS the problem.
aplantage 1 year ago
@kingofvintage good comment
sligo74 1 year ago
simply bloody brilliant...a great tribute to a hollywood icon that is the eastwood..rousing theme also from the ever relaible lalo
ZINCOVIX 2 years ago 2
Kick-ass montage to a great Schifrin score. The intro with them Cowboy boots is really inspired. Awesome scope on this vid. Great job.Fiver & faved.
zerokomma 2 years ago 2
Wow! "The Pigeon-Toed Orange Peel" nightclub.
Five and faved.
Soundtrackcollector 2 years ago
Another great edit mate, great use of dialogue with the soundtrack, and some swinging 60's cool.
sinbad0910 2 years ago 2