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• ON THIS DAY IN MOVIES: STRAW DOGS

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 560
  On this day in 1971, ABC PICTURES released STRAW DOGS. Directed by SAM PECKINPAH from his screenplay with DAVID ZELAG GOODMAN, this story of a timid man driven to violence was a real shocker for its time. The dynamic cast includes DUSTIN HOFFMAN, SUSAN GEORGE, PETER VAUGHAN, T.P. McKENNA, DEL HENNY and JIM NORTON. ...
  14 hours ago

• 25 Years Gone

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 128
  Sam Peckinpah 21 February 1925 - 28 December 1984
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• Steve McQueen in The Cincinnati Kid (1965)

  
  Cinemaroll — Authority: 132
  Steve McQueen in The Cincinnati Kid, image courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries Director Norman Jewison and MGM delivered The Cincinnati Kid to movie theaters in 1965. Steve McQueen has the title role, with Edward G. Robinson as the wily poker veteran. Shuffle up and deal… Richard Jessup’s The Cincinnati Kid ...
  2 days ago

• The Killer Elite

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 128
  "Lay me seven to five, I’ll take the little guy." Background In what was starting to become a pattern, Peckinpah responded to the box office failure of a small, personal picture ( ‘Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia’ ) by latching onto a commercial assignment. He had conjured massive returns and a ...
  5 days ago

• Peckinpah month: links & resources #4

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 128
  Evil Dead Junkie at Things That Don’t Suck makes it a hat-trick, following his excellent reviews on ‘Ride the High Country’ and ‘Major Dundee’ with an equally recommended piece on ‘Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid’ – essential reading for anyone enamoured of or intrigued by this episodic and elegiac ...
  6 days ago

• Overshadowed: I Hope You Slit Your Throat

  
  The Kind of Face You Hate — Authority: 118
  Gordon M. Williamss career as a writer, at least at a glance, is pretty sobering. In 1969, his fifth novel, From Scenes Like These , was short-listed for the Booker Prize. In 1981, his last published novel (he is still alive, from what I can tell), was The Revolt of the Micronauts , his second novel based on the ...
  1 week ago

• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 128
  "Nobody loses all the time." Background The basic idea for Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia was Frank Kowalskis: a crime boss puts a bounty one someones head, but with the twist that said individual is already dead. Peckinpah worked with Gordon Dawson (who had done some uncredited script work on The ...
  1 week ago

• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (2005 Special Edition)

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 128
  Since the cut-to-ribbons 1973 release of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid came and went from cinemas, two further incarnations have been available to home entertainment audiences. The 1988 Turner Preview Version - so called because it was essentially the edit swiped from MGM by parties sympathetic to Peckinpah - ...
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• Peckinpah as Prospero

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 128
  In a film defined by its protagonist confronting himself at every stage of the narrative - confronting his compromised morality; confronting the ramifications of the sell-out deal he has made with politicians and businessman, an uneasy alliance that will ultimately prove his destruction - two scenes in particular, ...
  1 week ago

• PERSONAL FAVES: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 128
  "It feels like times have changed." Background Everything augered well: a director coming fresh from his biggest commercial success to date, returning to the western genre of his first five movies; a script by a young but brilliant writer (Rudy Wurlitzer) seemingly attuned to the zeitgeist; a story based ...
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• The Getaway

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 128
  “That’s the problem with this goddamn world, ain’t no morals.” Background With Junior Bonner dying a death at the box office, Peckinpah was in need of a hit. He wasnt the only one. Steve McQueen hadnt starred in a substantial box office hit since Bullitt in 1968. His production company, Solar, ...
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• Spoof Peckinpah: Salad Days & Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 128
  Originally airing in November 1972, the Monty Python sketch Sam Peckinpahs Salad Days isnt just a classic bit of Python spoofery, its two minutes of nested satire targetting pompous and pseudy critics, the public perception of Peckinpah as a director of violence, and anticipating its own little storm of controversy. ...
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• Junior Bonner

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 128
  "Some kinda motel cowboy." Background Peckinpah went straight from Straw Dogs to Junior Bonner , marking the first and only time in his career he directed two films in the same year. Steve McQueen was already attached to star. The shoot was untroubled and Peckinpahs drinking - which had precipitated ...
  2 weeks ago

• Peckinpah month: links & resources #3

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 128
  Inexplicably missed off my ‘Peckinpah in Print’ article last week, ‘Sam Peckinpah Interviews’ edited by Kevin J Hayes (University of Mississippi, 2008) gets the in-depth review it deserves, by Gabrielle Murray, on Senses of Cinema. Already linked to in my ‘Sam Peckinpah’s maverick moments’ piece (but ...
  2 weeks ago

• Straw Dogs

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 128
  "Jesus, I got em all." Background Because of his public falling out with Warner Brothers over cuts to The Wild Bunch and their dismissive release of The Ballad of Cable Hogue , Peckinpah lost out on the chance to direct Deliverance even though James Dickey, whose novel it was based on, urged them that ...
  2 weeks ago

• The best films Sam Peckinpah never made

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 128
  All directors have projects that failed to make it into production, from Andrei Tarkovskys Dostoyevsky biopic to Alejandro Jodorowskys bizarro conception of Frank Herberts Dune . Few, though, can have racked up so many unrealised projects - and so heartbreaking well suited to their artistic vision - as Sam Peckinpah. ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Ballad of Cable Hogue

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 128
  "In some ways he was your dim reflection, Lord." Background Opting for a complete change of pace after The Wild Bunch , Peckinpah threw himself enthusiastically into The Ballad of Cable Hogue . It went overschedule and overbudget (which Peckinpah production didnt?) but on the whole the shoot progressed ...
  2 weeks ago

• "A walk thing": creating The Wild Bunchs most iconic moment

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 128
  Pike Bishop (William Holden) pulls his boots on in the dingy room of a whore young enough to be his daughter - hell, his granddaughter . The girl washes herself lethargically while her baby cries, unattended, in a crib nearby. Pikes face is twisted in self-disgust. Hes thinking back to what he and the Bunch saw on ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Killer Elite

  
  Pluck You, Too! movies, beer, and hotdogs — Authority: 419
  "Theres not one power system that really cares about its civilians!" This was written as a contribution to Agitation of the Minds Peckinpah Month blogathon ! go check it out. James Caan. Robert Duvall. Burt Young. Mako. Sam Peckinpah. Sounds like fun, dont it? Well it is. This lesser known Peckinpah film was ...
  2 weeks ago

• PERSONAL FAVES: The Wild Bunch

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 128
  "When you side with a man, you stay with him - and if you cant do that, youre like some animal. Youre finished. Were finished!" Background The slow road out of his years in the wilderness following the Major Dundee catastrophe and his firing from The Cincinnati Kid began with his adaptation of Noon ...
  2 weeks ago

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