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Sam Peckinpah's Westerns. by KasparM | created - 17 Feb 2012 | updated - 17 Feb 2012 | Public. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Sort by: View: 22 titles. 1. Broken Arrow (1956–1958) Episode: The Transfer (1958) 30 min | Western. 8.4. Rate.
- 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...
His 1969 Western epic The Wild Bunch received an Academy Award nomination and was ranked No. 80 on the American Film Institute 's top 100 list. His films employed a visually innovative and explicit depiction of action and violence as well as a revisionist approach to the Western genre.
I want to be able to make westerns like [Akira Kurosawa] makes westerns. Trademarks The films he directed were notorious for their extremely violent and bloody action sequences and climaxes.
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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.
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Feb 10, 2024 · Sam Peckinpah was a Western movie genius. Image by Zanda Rice. Sam Peckinpah, active in the 1960s and '70s, was a tough-as-nails director famous for his action movies and brutal...
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 ...
