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Sam Peckinpah: Films
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For contemporary action filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodrigues and John Woo, Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984) is the much-esteemed bloody grandfather of ultraviolence. Cutting his teeth on the old west television lots of the 1950's. Peckinpah eventually redefined the Western with a series of genre deconstructions in the 60's and early 70's. Later he built upon his sanguine reputation with a string of hard-hitting features. A famously maniacal personality and a rich, vivd artistic legacy has ensured a reputation that remains controversial and larger-than-life two decades after his death.
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The Sam Peckinpah papers span the years 1936–1985 (bulk 1970s–1980s) and encompass 95 linear feet. The collection contains production files, television files, story files, correspondence, subject files, personal and financial files, audio material, and scrapbooks. The largest quantity of material consists of script material and production files for the feature films directed by Peckinpah. The script material may consist of original source material, story notes, synopses, screenplays in various drafts, and final or shooting scripts. Most of the screenplays have been annotated by Peckinpah. The production files may consist of production correspondence, interoffice memoranda, casting records, call sheets, staff and crew lists, financial and legal records, location information, budgets, preview cards, editing and dubbing notes, distribution reports, publicity, and reviews.
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The legend of Sam Peckinpah has risen up to take over his reality. He was a tough customer and a drunken misogynist. Yet he was a true maverick, a dangerous renegade who stepped out of line among timid studio people, challenging them with his hardcore vision. Sometimes he achieved what he wanted, though mostly he didn't. Peckinpah left behind fourteen feature films, and with the re-editing and restoring of films like Major Dundee (1965) and Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), they've begun to reveal a genuine auteur. Now, at long last, the Peckinpah DVD collection is complete.
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[I]n a sense, Sam Peckinpah never died. Because whenever you see a film featuring gaping chest wounds, mass carnage, slow-motion death scenes and amoral heroes, you’re seeing the influence of Sam Peckinpah. His work is alive and well in the movies of John Woo, Walter Hill, Sam Raimi and Quentin Tarantino. And hopefully, Bloody Sam, wherever he is, can see these films and smile.
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Peckinpah was next signed to direct The Cincinnati Kid, a gambling drama about a young prodigy who takes on an old master during a big New Orleans poker match. Before filming started, producer Martin Ransohoff began to receive phone calls about the Major Dundee ordeal and was told Peckinpah was impossible to work with. In addition, Peckinpah decided to shoot in black and white and was hoping to transform the screenplay into a gritty saga about a kid surviving the tough streets of the Great Depression. After four days of filming, which reportedly included some nude scenes, Ransohoff disliked the rushes and immediately fired him.[40] Eventually directed by Norman Jewison and starring Steve McQueen, the film went on to become a 1965 hit. Peckinpah found himself banished from the film industry for several years.[41][42]
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Sam Peckinpah's trucking movie Convoy is set to be remade. - -The film, which originally starred Kris Kristofferson and Ernest Borgnine, will be directed for the second time by John Singleton, the man behind Boyz 'N The Hood, 2 Fast 2 Furious and this year's sleeper hi
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