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Sam Peckinpah: Hollywood Westerns
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Sam Peckinpah’s The Legendary Westerns Collection is now available at Amazon. As of yet, there is not a release date for the set in the UK. Visit the DVD’s database for more information. Each title in the set is ... available separately.
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Western legends Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea made their sagebrush swan songs in this Sam Peckinpah tale. Two veteran gunslingers are hired to protect a gold shipment, only to find plenty of obstacles along the way. Sprawling, colorful thriller ... stars Edgar Buchanan, Warren Oates and Mariette Hartley (her film debut).
Peckinpah's autumnal elegy for the end of the West. Steve Judd and Gil Westrum, en route to picking up a gold shipment at Coarse Gold, must carry a bride there first. The end of one tradition and the beginning of another: Western icons Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott, in the final film for each, play former gunfighters uneasily teamed up one last time.
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After service in the Marines and theater time (staging "The Glass Menagerie" three times), Peckinpah built a TV rep as a rowdy man of conviction who could churn out taut shows cheaply. Using Brian Keith, his star from "The Westerner," he entered feature direction with "The Deadly Companions" (1961), a tryout of his core theme of the conflicted outlaw, the longing loner, the obsolete man of action.
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When one told Aubrey about Sam’s lack of focus in the afternoon, Aubrey tried to have Sam sacked for violating the “morals” clause in his contract. In response, Sam purchased a full page ad in the Hollywood Reporter. It featured a picture of Sam lying on a hospital gurney being fed Johnny Walker by an intravenous drip as he grinned at the camera. The caption read:
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Synopsis: After the intense bloodshed of The Wild Bunch (1969), this comic western fable took the opposite approach to director Sam Peckinpah's continuing examination of the end of the West. Left for dead by a couple of lizard-slaughtering desperados in the miRead More
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