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1980
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22 titles. 1. Broken Arrow (1956–1958) Episode: The Transfer (1958) 30 min | Western. 8.4. Rate. When Jeffords is reassigned as Indian agent to the Utes, his replacement proves to be both without the necessary sensibilities and bureaucratic adaptability, so hostilities ensue as the Chiricahuas threaten to break the peace.
- The Deadly Companions
- Major Dundee
- Junior Bonner
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue
- Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
- Ride The High Country
- Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
- The Wild Bunch
Peckinpah’s lowest-rated western on IMDb is his directorial debut, The Deadly Companions. It follows an ex-soldier who accidentally kills a young boy and escorts the funeral procession through treacherous territory in a bid for redemption. Having previously only worked in television on the canceled series The Westerner, Peckinpah hadn’t quite figur...
Starring such screen legends as James Coburn and Charlton Heston, Major Dundeetells the story of a Union soldier who illegally crosses the border into Mexico with a ragtag team of commandos to stop the constant Apache raids. Throughout his career, Peckinpah made a handful of westerns and a handful of war movies. Like his directorial debut The Deadl...
Starring Steve McQueen as the title character, Junior Bonnerfollows a middle-aged rodeo rider who returns to his Arizona hometown to reconnect with his family. He’s determined to ride a bull named Sunshine for eight seconds, but family drama threatens to derail his plans. RELATED: Steve McQueen's 10 Best Westerns, Ranked According To IMDb Like a lo...
Stranded in the desert, The Ballad of Cable Hogue’s title character is ready to give up when he stumbles upon a water spring right in front of the local stagecoach line. Naturally, he turns this spring into a waystation and makes his fortune off of it. Unlike Peckinpah’s other movies, The Ballad of Cable Hogue has very little violence. It’s more of...
Peckinpah’s only biopic, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kidtells the compelling tale of the titular outlaws. Pat Garrett, played by James Coburn, is hired by a group of New Mexico cattle barons to take out his old friend Billy the Kid, played by Kris Kristofferson. Along with Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid helped to esta...
Peckinpah’s sophomore feature Ride the High Countrytells the story of an ex-Union soldier who’s hired by an old friend to help him transport some gold from a mining town across a dangerous stretch of land. Little does the ex-soldier know, his old pal is planning to double-cross him along the way. RELATED: Top 10 Westerns Of The 21st Century Accordi...
Set in the present day on a lawless frontier, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garciais a quintessential neo-western. After a wealthy tycoon offers a hefty reward for the severed head of the gigolo who impregnated his daughter, a bar pianist and the prostitute he loves go searching for the bounty. Thematically, Peckinpah draws from John Huston’s The Tr...
Led by such iconic actors as William Holden and Ernest Borgnine, The Wild Bunchfocuses on an aging band of outlaws at the end of their road, planning one last big score before calling it quits. Peckinpah sets this story of aging gunslingers against the backdrop of an evolving American West leaving the traditions of western movies behind. It’s hardl...
14. The Killer Elite. 1975 2h 2m PG. 6.0 (7.3K) Rate. 57 Metascore. Mike Locken, who works for a private security firm affiliated with the C.I.A., is betrayed by his partner and left apparently crippled for life. Director Sam Peckinpah Stars James Caan Robert Duvall Arthur Hill.
In 1961, as his marriage to Selland was coming to an end, he directed his first feature film, a western titled The Deadly Companions (1961) starring \ Brian Keith and Maureen O'Hara. However, it was with his second feature, Ride the High Country (1962) , that Peckinpah really began to establish his reputation.
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- 'The Wild Bunch' Released: 1969. Widely regarded as a masterpiece of its genre, this epic revisionist Western follows a gang of aging outlaws who are struggling to adjust to the rapid changes of the early 20th century.
- 'Straw Dogs' Released: 1971. "I will not allow violence against this house." Dustin Hoffman and Susan George star in this psychological thriller as David Sumner, an American mathematician, and his English wife Amy.
- 'Cross of Iron' Released: 1977. This war film unfolds on the Eastern Front of World War II, focusing on a squad of battle-hardened German soldiers facing off against the Soviets.
- 'Ride the High Country' Released: 1962. Steve Judd (Joel McCrea) is an aging ex-lawman who was once highly respected but is now struggling to get by. He is hired by a bank to guard a shipment of gold from a mine to the town of Hornitos, California.
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Sam Peckinpah mainly eked out a living in the mid to late 1950s as a writer for Western TV shows such as “Have Gun Will Travel” and “Gunsmoke. It wasn’t until he was approached by producer Jules Levy in 1958 that he finally managed to get involved in a series of his own, Levy hiring him to write the pilot for a show that would ...
Peckinpah emerged triumphant with "The Wild Bunch" (1969), a classic revisionist Western that marked the true high point of his creative powers. His final movies, "Cross of Iron" (1976),...
