Check out the previous part here. Columbia’s vice president and numerous studio lawyers had arrived in Mexico determined to fire Sam Peckinpah from the production and replace him. But although Sam’s erratic behaviour...
Check out the previous part here. By early January 1964, two thirds of the Major Dundee script had been completed and the film’s secondary characters all cast. Warren Oates, L.Q. Jones, John Davis Chandler and R.G. Armstrong,...
Check out the previous part here. After producer Jerry Bresler had privately run the film Ride the High Country for actor Charlton Heston, they both agreed that its director, Sam Peckinpah, should be hired to helm their...
In the summer of 1962, a low-budget western was given a general release as the lower half of a double-bill that featured the turgid Italian-made costume drama The Tartars. To the average moviegoer, the western appeared to be...