Lalo Schifrin - Coogan's Bluff (1968)

Portrait of Arizona Deputy Sheriff Walt Coogan, the untamed manhunter.

Music Notes: This montage contains four tracks ("Main Title", "Coogan in the Big Apple", "Picking Up the Trail" and "Chase and Capture").

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Lalo Schifrin
• Clint Eastwood
• Don Siegel
• Don Stroud
• Soundtrack

[CommentatorJones]

So awesome, great movie. Where can I find the music for the movie, I've been dying to get my hands on it.

[StefanMiklos]

@CommentatorJones

I advise you to search at the "Soundtrack Collector" site.

[WithoutRemorse12]

I can clearly see the influence this had on creation Raylan Givens character by author Elmore Leonard.

[MultiGemini666]

One of my alltime fav movies with Clint! Seen a hundred times....:)

[cosmicdingo]

Heh, the Chief don't like to take bs neither.

[skunkhead2007]

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....

[Besier74]

Thats my favorite Movie with Clint Eastwood, and he had made a lot of great Movies. 5***** Thx for the Video, good Job.

[aplantage]

@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.

[StefanMiklos]

@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.

[sligo74]

@kingofvintage good comment

[aplantage]

@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.