More than often unfairly placed into a single drawer and labeled as the master of misogynistic violence, fast-paced action and sometimes astonishing brutality, Sam Peckinpah,…
After Sam Peckinpah angered the studio with his Ballad of Cable Hogue, where he went 19 days over schedule and more importantly 3 million dollars…
On only one occasion did Marlon Brando give directing a shot. Disappointed with the audience’s reaction, disheartened by studio interference or perhaps simply disillusioned with…
Sam Peckinpah struggled throughout his career. Constantly challenged by supervisors, neverendingly fighting with his producers, intrinsically battling his overpowering alcoholic demons, he delivered a series…
Indulging a creative and, to a degree, noble and socially responsible desire to shatter the nurtured illusion of violence in the westerns as idealized, innocent…
Hailed as one of Sam Peckinpah’s misunderstood masterpieces, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is the film that ended the filmmaker’s informal revisionist western trilogy,…
Sam Peckinpah’s action-packed crime thriller The Getaway was a huge hit. It was just what the director needed at the beginning of the seventies—a box…