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Sam Peckinpah: Man
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Sam felt a special affinity for and kinship with stuntmen. In many ways he preferred them to actors. They were tough, capable, and real in a way that seemed to defy most Hollywood clichés. Sam liked to challenge them to drinking contests, often wagering on the outcome. Afterwards, win or lose, Sam usually tried to fight them. He was only about 5’5” and weighed maybe 150 pounds, but he was scrappy and held his own.
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Peckinpah's turbulent personal life mirrored the macho images he put on screen. He was a hard-drinking, rugged individualist who refused to follow many of society's social conventions. Following a divorce from Selland, he married Mexican actress Begonia Palacios, and they had a daughter together before divorcing. Peckinpah next married an Englishwoman, but that marriage was short-lived. He returned to Palacios; they again married and again divorced.
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Peckinpah's first feature follows a funeral procession through hostile Apache territory led by the man who accidentally killed the boy in the coffin. The soldier who made the promise of protection to the boy's mother hopes to settle more than one score at the end of the journey.
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