#coogan's bluff

[theglitterdome]

Clint Eastwood and Melodie Johnson in Coogan's Bluff - 1968

[lobbycards]

Coogan's Bluff, Mexican lobby card. Mexican theatrical release 1969

[all-action-all-picture]

Radio Times, 19 -25 February 1977 with Clint Eastwood getting the cover honours and featuring in a documentary about himself. Wonder if this was the first showing of Coogan's Bluff on UK television? It did take films a long time to get from cinema to television in those days.

[foggycatgarden]

[meme-streets]

Thoughts on coogan’s bluff? lol

i almost included that one but i wasn't sure if it was accurate to call it a western (it is in the canon of cowboy hat clint movies i guess). i think it's a fun watch if not taken at all seriously. clint eastwood wears a bolo tie and a giant hat, gets flirted with by men, scampers around like a wild animal during a pool table fight, and talks about green worms...and there's the utter disaster that is pigeon-toed orange peel. it's like dirty harry if it was fucking stupid and he wore a big cowboy hat.

its depiction of new york city does feel very much like an extended "this is the future liberals want" joke, and it's taken to a point that feels like it's supposed to be a parody of what conservatives think the counterculture was like, but coogan's tough guy handling of the evil hippies feels intended as heroic enough that it makes me question if this is actually an out-and-out parody. that is about what i expect from don siegel, though–he claimed his liberal friends missed that dirty harry was as bad as the killer he was chasing, but apparently missed that his conservative friends failed to grasp this too–and there is a balance of keeping your main character at least somewhat sympathetic.

that said–it's a funny movie in part because it's so goddamn ridiculous and i found it enjoyable at least for that.

[paul-newmans-sauce]

my favorite part of clint eastwood movies directed by don siegel is when he gets covered in bright red paint to be passed off as blood. like neon red paint. incredible every time

[soupy-harry]

COOGAN'S BLUFF (1968) dir. Don Siegel

[nikxtty]