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It was the French Cahiers du Cinéma crowd and Andrew Sarris that made Siegel an auteur. But it was Coogan’s Bluff that made Siegel, for the first time in his career, a major Hollywood director. Coogan’s Bluff plays like a trial run for the next twenty years of action cinema. It’s with Coogan’s Bluff that Eastwood would establish his post Leone persona. A persona that would dominate action cinema for the next twenty-five years. Coogan, the Stetson hat wearing Arizona deputy sheriff, would bridge the gap between the western hero that Eastwood was known for, and the big city cop he would become known for.

For all intents and purposes, what we think of as comedic action cinema was born the day Coogan’s Bluff was released.