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Coogan’s Bluff

film by Siegel [1968]
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Coogan’s Bluff, American crime drama, released in 1968, that marks the first teaming of Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel, who later collaborated on the popular Dirty Harry movies. Deputy Sheriff Walt Coogan (played by Eastwood) is a tough lawman from Arizona who travels to New York City to extradite an escaped killer, James Ringerman (Don Stroud). Ringerman, however, is in the hospital after overdosing on LSD. Coogan grows increasingly frustrated at the legal technicalities hindering Ringerman’s release and soon takes matters into his own hands. He tricks the hospital into releasing Ringerman into his custody, but plans go awry ...(100 of 325 words)

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