This Eastern-Western, set in sixties New York, tells of an Arizona sheriff who accompanies his extradited prisoner and loses him in the concrete canyons of Manhattan.

Coogans Bluff uses its structure, both for humorous contrast and for developing a genealogy of anti-social outcasts from the clash between Eastwoods enigmatic, dangerous Westerner and the pimps, crooks, hippies and cops he meets in the big town.

Not surprisingly, this is Siegels funniest and most violent work.

A companion-piece to Madigan in its study of the effects of urbanism on individualism, Coogans Bluff is more relaxed than its predecessor, employing a wide and inventive variety of characters and locales.