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In 1954, Peckinpah was hired as a third assistant casting director for the film Riot in Cell Block 11, directed by Don Siegel. The movie was filmed on location at Folsom Prison. Reportedly, the warden was reluctant to allow the filmmakers to work at the prison until he was introduced to Peckinpah. The warden knew his family from Fresno and immediately became cooperative. Siegel's location work and his use of actual prisoners as extras in the film made a lasting impression on Peckinpah. He would work as an assistant to the director on four additional films including Private Hell 36 (1954), An Annapolis Story, (1955, and co-starring L.Q.
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Junior Bonner is not your typical Sam Peckinpah movie, but do not let that scare you away from this movie. J.R. Bonner is a well-known rodeo cowboy on the last legs of his rodeo career. Returning to his hometown of Prescott, Arizona for Frontier Days, the annual 4th of July celebration, Bonner finds that everything he knew before has changed. His father refuses to take responsibility for his life, instead always looking for a way to make easy money while alienating his wife. J.R.'s brother has become a real estate afficionado and is only worried about the bottom line.
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There have been at least 12 books written on Sam Peckinpah's life and career including Bloody Sam: The Life and Films of Sam Peckinpah by Marshall Fine, If They Move...Kill 'Em! by David Weddle, Peckinpah A Portrait in Montage by Garner Simmons and Peckinpah: The Western Films, A Reconsideration by Paul Seydor.[98]
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"When he was making movies it felt, for some of us, as if we were watching an ongoing street accident," recalled critic Pauline Kael in an interview for a 1999 Peckinpah retrospective. "We felt helpless; he was determined to be doomed. He liked the helplessness of it all; the role he played was the loser. And though the competition is keen, he's probably the greatest martyr/ham in Hollywood history." In Kael's view, Peckinpah was largely to blame for his legendary battles with studio executives: "He needed their hatred to stir up his own. He didn't want to settle fights or to compromise or even, may be, to win.
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Peckinpah described this film as a comedy, but in the interview with actress Stella Stevens that is included on this DVD, she more accurately points out that the film is really a tragic love story. Often referred to by Peckinpah as his favorite among his films, it is an interesting experiment with some great moments and a touching sense of romanticism (though, this being a Peckinpah movie, it's a love story between a gristly old curmudgeon and a whore). Still, some other elements fall flat.
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