Coogan's Bluff

Director: Don Siegel

1968 / 94min / 4K DCP

Three years before Harry Callahan cleaned up San Francisco with his hand-cannon, Arizona deputy Walt Coogan (Clint Eastwood) brought his particular brand of cowboy justice to a lawless NYC in Coogan’s Bluff, which opens with our hero touching down in the Big, Rotten Apple with orders to extradite LSD-fueled killer James Ringerman (Don Stroud) back to the southwest, a seemingly straightforward mission that will eventually lead Coogan through a pool hall brawl, close encounters with the counterculture (including parodic psych rock act “The Pigeon-Toed Orange Peel”), and a hell-bent-for-leather motorcycle chase through Fort Tryon Park. The first of five collaborations between Eastwood and Siegel and, per Quentin Tarantino, “a trial run for the next 20 years of action cinema.”

U.S. premiere of new 4K restoration

Distributor: Universal