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COOGAN'S BLUFF. Director Don Siegal, a favorite of French cinema fans, proves that his reputation is no Gallic caprice. This is a tough crime film about an Arizona sheriff (Clint Eastwood) who goes to New York to extradite a prisoner...
...Coogan's Bluff, Siegel's latest film, will bolster his already exalted position among his followers, even though it may not do much to make his name a household word. Like most of the other 24 pictures he has directed (among them: Madigan, Riot in Cell Block 11), this one is the sort of gritty cops-and-robbers movie that audiences take for granted. Coogan's Bluff has all the qualities that distinguished Siegel's previous efforts: it is fast, tough and so well made that it seems to have evolved naturally, almost without benefit of cast, crew or rehearsal...
...Coogan's Bluff is what the trade used to call a B picture, but Siegel is not bothered by such distinctions. "I make Tom, Dick and Harry movies," he says. "I'm not interested in those 10,000 Tom, Dick and Harry spectaculars where everything seems to get lost in the shuffle." It is not very likely that Siegel will ever get a spectacular to direct, partly because his movies have seldom done very good business, partly because the studio executives do not care for his bellicose, independent ways. "The brass made me put a prologue and epilogue on Invasion...
Even before he retired as Air Force Chief of Staff nearly four years ago, the bluff, iron-willed flier had become involved in policy scraps that shaded into the political Most notable was his running public quarrel with then Defense Secretary Robert McNamara over whether, as thought, manned bombers should be equally important as missiles in the U.S. deterrent force. In retirement, relieved of the usual military restraints on an officer's political views, he declared that if all else failed, the US had the capability to "bomb the North Vietnamese back to the stone age" and to "destroy...
...candidate for one of the two highest offices in the land stood on a high bluff in Montana, drinking in an awe-inspiring panorama of mountains in the distance and the Yellowstone River snaking away below, a trickle of gold under a setting sun. Turning to a companion, he inquired, "Is there one for the enlisted...