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Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Coogan's Bluff
COOGAN'S BLUFF is a movie directed by Don Siegel in 1968.

Arizona Deputy Sheriff Coogan is sent to New York in order to bring back the bad guy Ringerman. Ringerman escapes and Coogan swears he won't leave N.Y. without his prisoner.

The main interest of the picture lies in the description of the immersion of a man, who makes his first trip out of Arizona, in a big city like the New-York of the late sixties.

--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar


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Plot
Time/era of movie: - 1960's-1970's
Job/Profession/Poverty Story? Yes
Job: - lawmen
Ethnic/Regional/Gender story? Yes
Story of city/rural life? - Big City
Culture clash? - visiting a different culture
Culture of surrounding area: - American urban

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - police/lawman
Age: - 20's-30's
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (man) short/standard straight
Body type - (man) average
Unclothed? - Chest
Events of movie makes character more... - irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor? - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair color - red
Hair style - (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type - (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Unclothed? - very tight clothes
How much in movie? - 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - Female
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - prostitute/concubine
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 20%
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (woman) short/butch/lez
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - West - Northeast
Desert? Yes
City? Yes
City: - New York
Misc setting - prison - resort/hotel

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Movie makes you feel... - very happy
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - kissing - seeing breasts - seeing nude female butt
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE... - Orchestra/classical
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