Coogan's big bluff
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Coogan's big bluff |
| Original title | Coogan's Bluff |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 (cinema), 12 (video) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Don Siegel |
| script |
Herman Miller , Dean Riesner , Howard Rodman |
| production |
Richard E. Lyons , Don Siegel |
| music | Lalo Schifrin |
| camera | Bud Thackery |
| cut | Sam E. Waxman |
| occupation | |
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Coogan's Big Bluff (Original title: Coogan's Bluff) is an American action film directed by Don Siegel from 1968 .
action
In the first few minutes of the film, we are introduced to Walt Coogan, Deputy Sheriff in a small town in Arizona . He chases an Indian suspected of murdering his wife through the desert and arrests him after an exchange of fire.
Coogan receives an assignment from Sheriff McCrea to bring the fugitive criminal James Ringerman back home from New York . He is alienated by the amorality of the big city. The taxi driver who takes him from the airport to the police tries to cheat him. Police officers talk openly about bribes, social worker Julie Roth has to be sexually harassed by a small dealer in the police office without anyone being concerned. When he helps the social worker in his own way by giving the dealer a mighty slap in the face, he is cursed by her.
As a result, he doesn't give a damn about the police chief's instructions to look for a hotel room, since Ringerman is currently in the hospital and can only be discharged on the order of the doctor. With a bluff he brings Ringerman, with whom he wants to leave town, from the hospital. But at the airport, Ringerman is freed by his partner Linny and a friend.
Coogan sniffs Julie's files and finds out Linny's address. After sleeping with him, she promises to lead Coogan to see Ringerman. However, she takes him to a billiard bar, which is not Ringerman, but friends of his. A fight ensues, from which Coogan escapes before the police show up.
Coogan goes to Linny again and this time tries to find out Ringerman's whereabouts with threats of violence. Under this pressure, Linny Coogan actually leads to Ringerman, who is hiding in The Cloisters . In a chase on motorcycles through Fort Tryon Park , Ringerman is struck down in a similar way to the Indian at the beginning of the film. So it comes full circle when Coogan manages to bring Ringerman back to Arizona in handcuffs despite his illegal actions.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of December 5, 1968 that the film addresses one of the “oldest American topics”: a young man from the country comes to a big city where he is confronted with corruption. The direction of Don Siegel - who is known for films like this ("who ... is ... at home in this sort of movie") - supports the "laconic, slit-eyed" manner of Clint Eastwood.
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was staged "with emphatic understatement and dry humor". The evangelical film observer considers the strip to be an unsuccessful mixture of crime, love and adventure film.
background
The film was shot in New York and in the California part of the Mojave Desert . It grossed approximately $ 3.1 million in total in US cinemas.
The German rock band Coogans Bluff named themselves after this film in 2003.
Web links
- Coogan's Bluff in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Coogan's Bluff atrotten tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ on the DVD cover picture the spelling Coogan's big bluff is used
- ^ Review by Roger Ebert
- ^ Coogan's big bluff. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 496/1968.
- ^ Filming locations for Coogan's Bluff
- ^ Box office / business for Coogan's Bluff