Superstar and Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood stars as Walt Coogan, a soft-spoken, straightforward, Arizona lawman who is sent to New York City to extradite a captured murderer. Coogan clips up, the inmate escapes and the hunt is on! Coogan’s unorthodox law enforcement techniques don’t go over too well with frustrated NYC Police Lieutenant McElroy (Lee J. Cobb) who can’t decide which is worse…the prisoner or the lawman.