Sam Peckinpah

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• Review of Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs

  
  Blog Your Site — Authority: 166
  Sam Peckinpah’s film is one of the greatest ever made – not because it sparked such controversy – because it rewards the discerning viewer with something unique on each and every viewing. It is thought-provoking, angry, and provocative. It is cold and detached yet displays the human condition as if laid naked in ...
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• Straw Dogs Film review

  
  Blog Your Site — Authority: 166
  Sam Peckinpah’s shocking and provocative 1971 film is given the Top10Films review treatment right here.
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• The Wild Bunch (1969) – The Daily Movie Wallpaper – Happy New Year & Happy New Decade!

  
  Cinema is Dope — Authority: 479
    The Daily Movie Wallpaper Friday, January 1, 2009   I ended the last decade with a rare restored still from The Wild Bunch ( here ) and am kicking off this new decade with this perfect one to walk us into it. What new great cinema awaits? I have no idea but I’m greatly excited! To a new decade of cinema, I ...
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• Directed by Sam Peckinpah

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 127
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• One last go-around

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 127
  25 Years Gone: A Tribute to Sam Peckinpah, my month-long appreciation of one of American cinemas greatest and most distinctive directors, draws to a close. I started researching and sketching out articles in early November. The last pieces were pretty much written and posted same day. Its been a long haul and Ive ...
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• The Wild Bunch (1969) – The Daily Movie Wallpaper – Filming of Shootout at Bloody Porch

  
  Cinema is Dope — Authority: 479
    The Daily Movie Wallpaper Thursday, December 31, 2009   Goodbye 2009 and the decade of 2000! In the near distance now we have 2010 about to set with a new decade upon us. To close out this year and decade as such, here is an appropriate and rare behind the scenes still of the filming of Shootout at Bloody ...
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• The Getaway (1972) – The Daily Movie Wallpaper – Behind the Scenes with MacGraw, Struthers, McQueen and Lettieri

  
  Cinema is Dope — Authority: 479
    The Daily Movie Wallpaper Wednesday, December 30, 2009   The post today is dedicated to Zack Carlson of Alamo Terror Tuesday . Rare behind the scenes moment of fun for Ali MacGraw , Sally Struthers , Steve McQueen and Al Lettieri on the set of Sam Peckinpah’s , The Getaway .   Related ...
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• Sam Peckinpah in his own words

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 127
  "I wasnt trying to make an epic. I was trying to tell a simple story about bad men in changing times. The Wild Bunch is simply about what happens when killers go to Mexico. The strange thing is that you feel a great sense of loss when these killers reach the end of the line." "I detest machines. The problem ...
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• Peckinpah month: links & resources #5

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 127
  Thanks to Bill at The Kind of Face You Hate for contributing a sterling article on Straw Dogs , unearthing some fascinating background information on Gordon M. Williams, author of source novel The Siege of Trenchers Farm, and extrapolating the crucial differences between book and film. Theres more on Straw Dogs in a ...
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• ON THIS DAY IN MOVIES: STRAW DOGS

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 535
  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. ...
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• The Osterman Weekend

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 127
  "Just another episode of this whole snuff soap opera were all in." Background After Convoy , Peckinpah spent five years in the wilderness. It had been the same with Major Dundee . Then, Daniel Melnicks offer of Noon Wine for TV proved the life-raft that led to an initially productive relationship with ...
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• 25 Years Gone

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 127
  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 ...
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• Convoy

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 127
  "I hate somebody else paying my dues." Background With Cross of Iron roundly ignored at the box office and Peckinpah out of pocket to the tune of the $90,000 he put into the ailing production, it was imperative that he direct something commercial. That something was Convoy . Its source material was a ...
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• Cross of Iron

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 127
  "I will show you how a Prussian officer can fight." "And I will show you where the Iron Crosses grow." Background Prior to sending Peckinpah a copy of Willi Heinrichs novel The Willing Flesh with a view to collaborating with the maverick director on an adaptation, Wolf C. Hartwigs experience as a ...
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• The Killer Elite

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 127
  "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 ...
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• Peckinpah month: links & resources #4

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 127
  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 ...
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• Overshadowed: I Hope You Slit Your Throat

  
  The Kind of Face You Hate — Authority: 425
  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 ...
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• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 127
  "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 ...
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• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (2005 Special Edition)

  
  The Agitation of the Mind — Authority: 127
  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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