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Why does Deputy Sheriff Walt Coogan travel from Arizona to New York City in Coogan’s Bluff?

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Don Siegel, wearing a hat and sunglasses, stands beside Clint Eastwood, also in sunglasses and a suit, on the set of the film Dirty Harry with a large studio light overhead. — Don Siegel Don Siegel (left) and Clint Eastwood during the filming of *Dirty Harry* (1971).

In the 1968 crime drama Coogan’s Bluff, directed by Don Siegel, Deputy Sheriff Walt Coogan travels from Arizona to New York City for the purpose of extraditing an escaped killer named James Ringerman.1