Directed by Don Siegel • 1968 • United States
Starring Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark
Fresh from his star-making collaborations with Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood inaugurated his next great creative partnership with this exciting police thriller, the first of five major films he made with action specialist Don Siegel (DIRTY HARRY). Continuing to refine his tough-guy image, Eastwood stars as Walt Coogan, a soft-spoken, straightforward Arizona lawman who is sent to New York to extradite a captured murderer (Don Stroud). Coogan trips up, the inmate escapes, and the hunt is on. But while Coogan’s style of frontier justice may have flown in Arizona, it doesn’t go over too well with frustrated NYC Police Lieutenant McElroy (Lee J. Cobb), who can’t decide who is more of a menace: the prisoner or the lawman.
Up Next in Fun City: NYC Woos Hollywood, Flirts with Disaster
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Madigan
Directed by Don Siegel • 1968 • United States
Starring Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Inger StevensA key prototype of the gritty, morally murky police procedurals that would proliferate in the 1970s, this lean, mean urban thriller from Don Siegel stars Richard Widmark as the eponymous New York C...
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Bye Bye Braverman
Directed by Sidney Lumet • 1968 • United States
Starring George Segal, Jack Warden, Joseph WisemanDirector Sidney Lumet made his first foray into comedy with this wildly irreverent farce, rich in 1960s New York City flavor and Borscht Belt humor. When their buddy, the writer Leslie Braverman (“...
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Born to Win
Directed by Ivan Passer • 1971 • United States
Starring George Segal, Karen Black, Paula PrentissJ (George Segal), a former New York City hairdresser turned heroin junkie, sees his life spiral out of control as he bounces between committing petty crimes, a new relationship with a free-spirited ...
