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Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn, Michael Anderson, Jr.
Synopsis: Sam Peckinpah's 1965 feature Major Dundee was recut and rescored for re-release theatrically in 2005, 40 years after its original release. The "Extended Version," as it is known officially, tells essentially the same story as the original but with clearer motivations for the characters (which Read More
Synopsis: When director Paul Seydor was researching the seminal Sam Peckinpah movie The Wild Bunch, he discovered the film which forms the basis for this short documentary (it is approximately 30 minutes long). Some unknown person, probably a cameraman, shot over 70 minutes of film showing how key scenes in The Wild Bunch Read More
Actors: Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Peter Bogdanovich, D.W. Griffith, Erich Von Stroheim
Synopsis: This documentary respectfully interviews a number of important American directors who have in one way or another "bucked the system." It also explores the life and work of earlier American mavericks through the tributes, reflections, and recollections of the first group. Prominent among the living Read More
Crew: Director
Actors: Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper, Chris Sarandon
Synopsis: A man discovers that his best friends are actually spies -- or are they? -- in this thriller based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling novel. John Tanner (Rutger Hauer) is the host of a television news show who once a year spends a long weekend with three of his best friends from college, Bernard Read More
Actors: Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen, John Huston, Joanne Nail
Synopsis: Teetering between camp, silly, and derivative, this undistinguished horror film by Giulio Paradisi, aka Michael J. Paradise, stars several respectable actors. Mel Ferrer is an Atlanta notable who is mysteriously in communication with some demonic forces. These evil powers want him to father a Read More
Actors: Fabio Testi, Warren Oates, Jenny Agutter, Sam Peckinpah, Isabel Mestres
Synopsis: China 9, Liberty 37 falls halfway between the Hollywood backlot-western school and the Italian "spaghetti" western genre, borrowing the best elements from both. Fabio Testi plays a gunfighter who is saved at the last moment from a hangman's noose. His liberators are a cartel of railroad men who Read More
Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, Madge Sinclair
Synopsis: The CB (citizen's band) radio fad had nearly run its course when this feel-good action film was made by director Sam Peckinpah. In the story, based on C.W. McCall's song "Convoy", a group of struggling truckers (who stay in touch by CB) run into a situation which ignites their indignation. They Read More
Actors: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Klaus Löwitsch
Synopsis: A quote from Bertolt Brecht ends this bitter and angry war film by Sam Peckinpah: "Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again." Peckinpah's intense and belligerently non-commercial work, (based on the Read More
Actors: James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill, Bo Hopkins, Mako
Synopsis: This second-string Sam Peckinpah action film features James Caan as ex-CIA agent Mike Locken, who has retired due to injuries received at the hands of his ex-partner George Hansen (Robert Duvall). But Mike is lured out of retirement to protect Yuen Chung (Mako), an Asian political leader. There's Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter, Songwriter
Actors: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Gig Young, Robert Webber, Helmut Dantine
Synopsis: Wealthy Mexican Emilio Fernandez puts a million-dollar bounty on the head of Alfredo Garcia, who has seduced and knocked up Fernandez's daughter. Trouble is, Alfredo Garcia is already dead and buried. Barkeep Bennie (Warren Oates) is appointed by two of Fernandez's hit men (Robert Webber and Gig Young Read More
Actors: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan
Synopsis: A former friend betrays a legendary outlaw in Sam Peckinpah's final Western. Holed up in Fort Sumner with his gang between cattle rustlings, Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) ignores the advice of comrade-turned-lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn) to escape to Mexico, and he winds up in jail in Read More
Actors: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson, Joe Don Baker
Synopsis: Sam Peckinpah eschews his slow-motion bullet ballets for this quiet character study of ex-rodeo cowboy turned drifter Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen), who returns home to Arizona to reconcile with the family he hasn't seen in years. Bonner is shocked to see that the solid family he was hoping to Read More
Actors: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri
Synopsis: In Sam Peckinpah's version of Walter Hill's script, from Jim Thompson's novel, an ex-con and his wife go on the lam after a Texas bank heist. Denied parole after four well-behaved years, Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) sends his wife Carol (Ali MacGraw) to dirty politician Jack Benyon (Ben Johnson) to Read More
Actors: Cherina Mann, Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna, David Warner, Colin Welland
Synopsis: Sam Peckinpah examines the instinctual capacity for violence in his controversial 1971 film, loosely based on the novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm. To avoid the Vietnam-era social chaos in the U.S., American mathematician David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) moves with his British wife Amy (Susan George Read More
Crew: Director, Producer
Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin, Slim Pickens
Synopsis: After the intense bloodshed of The Wild Bunch (1969), this comic western fable took the opposite approach to director Sam Peckinpah's continuing examination of the end of the West. Left for dead by a couple of lizard-slaughtering desperados in the middle of the desert, prospector Cable Hogue (Jason Robards Read More
Actors: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates
Synopsis: "If they move, kill 'em!" Beginning and ending with two of the bloodiest battles in screen history, Sam Peckinpah's classic revisionist Western ruthlessly takes apart the myths of the West. Released in the late '60s discord over Vietnam, in the wake of the controversial Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Yul Brynner, Robert Mitchum, Maria Grazia Buccella, Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Robert Viharo
Synopsis: Yul Brynner stars as the legendary Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in this 1968 epic that was originally written by Sam Peckinpah, who hoped to direct it. But studio bosses instead hired Buzz Kulik and cut the script. Villa is commanded by General Huerta (Herbert Lom) and assisted by the Read More
Actors: Tom Tryon, Harve Presnell, Senta Berger, James Caan, Andrew Duggan
Synopsis: Though written by Sam Peckinpah (he adapted the film from a novel by Hoffman Birney), the direction of The Glory Guys was entrusted to the competent but perfunctory Arnold Laven. Cavalry captain Demas Harrod (Tom Tryon) and his faithful scout Sol Rogers (Harve Presnell) are placed under the Read More
Synopsis: This hour-long Western drama was originally an episode of the popular award-winning television show The Dick Powell Show. Directed by Sam Peckinpah one year after his feature-film debut, The Deadly Companions, The Losers stars Lee Marvin, Keenan Wynn, Rosemary Clooney, and Charles Boyer. The film Read More
Actors: Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, James Drury
Synopsis: This Sam Peckinpah-directed feature outing was intended as the cinematic swan song for both Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea; while McCrea would unexpectedly emerge from retirement, this 1961 western serves as an excellent valedictory for both men. The time is the early 1900s, when the Old West was Read More
Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran, Chill Wills, Strother Martin
Synopsis: Sam Peckinpah's first feature as director is this modest Western, taking place in the late 1860s. Yellowleg (Brian Keith), a former sergeant in the Union army, is obsessed with tracking down Turk (Chill Wills), a Rebel army deserter who, during the War Between the States, tried to scalp him as he Read More
Actors: Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Paul Fix, John Dehner, Bert Freed
Synopsis: In this episode of The Rifleman, Lucas McCain (Chuck Connors) finds himself in the odd position of having to defend an old nemesis, Oat Jackford (Bert Freed), when a hired killer (John Dehner) come gunning for him. Paul Fix co-stars in his recurrent role of Marshal Micah Torrance in this episode Read More
Synopsis: Future Virginian star James Drury and Paul Fix are among the guest players in this, the fourth installment of The Rifleman television series. This time Lucas McCain (Chuck Connors) takes on a broken-down, alcoholic lawman, Micah Torrance (Fix), who's hired to help build a corral. But the arrival Read More
Synopsis: Sam Peckinpah, future auteur of such classic cinematic shoot-em-ups as Major Dundee and The Wild Bunch, was coscripter of this wickedly ironic episode. Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by Rod Blakely (Richard Long), an idealistic young man who was recently jilted by his fiancee, professional Read More
Synopsis: Created and written by Sam Peckinpah, the premiere episode of The Rifleman stars Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford as Lucas and Mark McCain, father and 10-year-old son in search of settling down near North Fork, New Mexico. But when Lucas, a noted crack shot with a rifle, enters the local turkey Read More
Synopsis: Ready to settle into their newly purchased homestead, Lucas McCain (Chuck Connors) and his son Mark (Johnny Crawford) are interrupted by Sam Montgomery (Lee Farr) and Billy Lehi (Steve Rowlands), a couple of thugs in the employ of cattle baron Oat Jackford. The latter has been using the spread as Read More
Synopsis: It's roundup time again, and Dodge City braces itself for the annual invasion of hundreds of wild-and-wooly cowboys, all looking for girls, whiskey and trouble. Most of the local merchants demand that Matt (James Arness) provide extra protection agains the rampaging cowpokes; the one exception is Read More
Synopsis: While rustling some cattle, Army deserter Joe Trimble (Brian G. Hutton) shoots and kills a rancher just outside of Dodge. Matt (James Arness) insists upon forcing Trimble to stand trial before a civilian jury, even though Major Banker (Keith Thibodeaux) demands that the killer be turned over to Read More
Synopsis: Willie Calhoun (Denver Pyle) goes so far as to take a bath and get a haircut in his efforts to win the heart of sexy saloon girl Pearl Bender (Constance Ford). But Pearl's former boyfriend Webb Thorne (Michael Emmett) threatens to shoot Willie on sight if he shows his face. Hoping to avoid Read More
Synopsis: Doc (Milburn Stone) comes upon a remote prairie cabin occupied by a hostile, reclusive woman named Florie (Cloris Leachman) and a bedridden man (Philip Bourneauf) whom Doc presumes is Florie's husband. It soon develops that the invalid is holding a gun on Florie, intending to kill her--or is he Read More
Synopsis: Yorky (Jeff Silver), a white boy raised by Indians, is saved from a charge of horse stealing when he is offered home and shelter by kindly farmer Seldon (Malcolm Atterbury). Though there are several people in town who'd sooner see Yorky hang, Matt Dillon (James Arness) is willing to go along with Read More
Synopsis: Trail herder Howard Bulow (Mort Mills) threatens to kill Matt Dillon (James Arness) for shooting Howard's brother Ned (Bill White Jr.) in self-defense. After several failed attempts to mollify Bulow, Matt is forced to throw the man in jail for his own good. This sparks a new and even more ominous Read More
Synopsis: Future TV mogul Aaron Spelling appears in this episode as Weed Pindle, a sweet-tempered, soft-spoken guitar player. Upon learning that Weed fought on the Union side during the Civil War, two brutish Southern sympathizers named Tyler (Charles Gray) and Augie (Jacques Aubuchon) mercilessly torment Read More
Actors: John Derek, Diana Lynn, Kevin McCarthy, Alvy Moore, Patrick Conway
Synopsis: The faces are new and the settings up-to-date, but otherwise An Annapolis Story is the tried-and-true "two guys and one girl" formula. Filmed on location at the titular Maryland naval academy, the story centers upon two sibling cadets, Tony (John Derek) and Jim (Kevin McCarthy). The boys battle Read More
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