{"id":30420,"date":"2022-08-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30420"},"modified":"2022-08-24T13:24:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T17:24:21","slug":"coogans-bluff-1968-starring-clint-eastwood-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30420","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Coogan&#8217;s Bluff&#8221; (1968) Starring Clint Eastwood                 \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z083022zview_coogansbluff.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"797\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Coogan&#8217;s Bluff <\/strong><\/em>(1968)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Don Siegel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: \u00a0<strong>Herman Miller, <\/strong><strong>Dean Riesner, <\/strong><strong>Howard Rodman\u00a0 <\/strong>from a story by <strong>Herman Miller<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring: <strong>Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark, Tisha Sterling,\u00a0 Don Stroud, James Edwards, David Doyle <\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Albert Popwell<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em> A Prisoner On the Loose, A Cop Over the Edge. This Town Ain&#8217;t Big Enough for the Both of Them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Walt Coogan (Eastwood) is a Deputy Sheriff sent to New York City to extradite James Ringerman (Stroud), an escaped murderer, back for trial in Arizona.\u00a0 What Coogan thought would be an easy pick-up\/return, turns into a mess when he learns Ringerman overdosed on LSD and is being held for medical clearance.\u00a0 Coogan gets no assistance from Lt. McElroy (Cobb) who views Coogan as a &#8220;Texas&#8221; bumpkin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rather than wait for Ringerman to be cleared, or go through the days of paperwork to get an override for extradition, Coogan bluffs his way into the medical unit and gets custody of Ringerman.\u00a0 On the way to the airport, Coogan is jumped and badly beaten by Ringerman&#8217;s crime partners.\u00a0 With no police support, Coogan makes it his mission to track down Ringerman and get him back to Arizona!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eastwood was born to play characters like Walt Coogan. Don Siegel and Eastwood make a great team (and <em>Coogan&#8217;s Bluff<\/em> is a nice warm-up for <em>Dirty Harry<\/em>).\u00a0 <em>Coogan&#8217;s Bluff<\/em> isn&#8217;t a comedy, but there is a nice amount of humor mixed with the action.\u00a0 Folks who only know David Doyle from <em>Charlie&#8217;s Angels<\/em> will get a kick out of him playing a tough guy.\u00a0 Coogan&#8217;s Bluff was the basis for the hit series McCloud starring Dennis Weaver.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><i>Coogan&#8217;s Bluff<\/i>\u00a0earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z083022zview_coogansbluff2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coogan&#8217;s Bluff (1968) Director: Don Siegel Screenplay by: \u00a0Herman Miller, Dean Riesner, Howard Rodman\u00a0 from a story by Herman Miller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30421,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30420\/revisions\/30421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}