Coogan's Bluff is the title of a 1968 Universal film starring Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Don Stroud and Susan Clark and directed by Don Siegel. Eastwood plays the part of a young veteran deputy sheriff from a rural county in Arizona who travels to New York City to extradite an apprehended fugitive named Ringerman, played by Don Stroud, who is wanted for murder.

The movie's most distinctive and elaborate scene takes place in a large, psychedelic-themed nightclub called The Pigeon-Toed Orange Peel. Also notable is a poolhall brawl with Coogan fighting off a dozen men, and a climatic motorcycle pursuit between Coogan and Ringerman through the Cloister's Park. Furthermore, there are two sequences in the movie, one at the beginning and the other at the end, the second echoing the first. This is the same device used in "Dirty Harry", when Harry gives the "Are you feeling lucky?" speech, first to a bank robber and then to the killer in the last scene. In this film Coogan, hunting a renegade Navajo, disappears in a cloud of dust caused by him spinning his jeep. He then sneaks up on his quarry. In the final scenes he performs the same trick on a motorcycle to capture Ringerman.

Herman Miller was responsible for the story and co-wrote the screenplay with Dean Riesner and Howard Rodman. Miller's work on this film is credited with inspiring the NBC / Universal television show McCloud.

The character of Coogan, a quiet but tough lawman who clashes with his superiors and short-cuts police procedure to get results, would be successfully revisited by Eastwood and Siegel in "Dirty Harry" and its sequels. This was also the first of five films over the next ten years involving the actor/director partnership of Eastwood and Siegel.

The name of the film itself is a playful reference to a New York City natural landmark, Coogan's Bluff, a promontory in upper Manhattan overlooking the site of the former long-time home of the New York Giants baseball club, the Polo Grounds. Coogan bluffs his way out of Ringerman's jail cell with Ringerman in tow, to take him back to Arizona without going through extradition.

Coogan, an Arizona cop, is sent to New York to collect a prisoner. Everyone in New York assumes Coogan is from Texas, much to his annoyance. To add to Coogan's problems the prisoner isn't ready, so he decides to cut a few corners. In the process the prisoner escapes, and Coogan is ordered home. Too proud to return home empty handed, Coogan sets out into the big city to recapture his prisoner. Written by Rob Hartill

Coogan's an Arizona deputy sheriff, who doesn't get along with his boss and doesn't exactly do things by the book, and also a little arrogant. Fed up with his rugged individualness, his boss sends him to New York to get a man who's waiting to extradited. Upon arriving everybody thinks he's just another bumpkin. When the New York Police Lieutenant tells him that his prisoner is still not ready to be transported, Coogan tries to be patient. But when he decides that he can't wait anymore, he tricks one of the attendants into releasing the prisoner and at the airport someone springs him. Coogan's boss is pleased that he has screwed up so bad, and orders him to return but Coogan feeling responsible or his ego has been bruised stays and tries to find despite being warn by the Lieutenant that he has no authority here. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com