Coogan's Bluff (1968)

Second viewing; first viewed on December 7, 1987

A deputy sheriff from Arizona travels to New York to bring back a criminal.

This film is most notable for being a sort of paean to masculinity, a position that would subsequently become rarer and rarer in movies. Lately even films explicitly made for the male audience, including those made by this film's star, have increasingly veered into a compromised position of offering a sort of sanitized version of the male hero. That being said for this film, I found it lacking in the script area, especially after the good half hour in the beginning. The bad guys are totally cartoonish, and not necessarily in an interesting way. But it is very well made and overall a decent film.

Rating: 58 (up from 49)