Sam Peckinpah's MAJOR DUNDEE has one of the most testosterone filled opening credit scenes ever filmed. It tells you straight up front that this is a MAN'S MOVIE! After a somber narration tells us ...

When we talk about a lost masterpiece, we’re usually thinking of, or at least hoping for, a treasure that exists somewhere in a close-to-perfect form, if only we could find it. With movies, it’s ...

In 1986, I wrote a book about Universal Pictures’ attempts to re-edit Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil. ” During the research, I came up with a long and troubling list of movies by talented directors that had ...

Sam PECKINPAH was a director who felt things deeply, and never more so than when he considered the destiny of his ill-fated 1965 western, “Major Dundee.” It was a film the director nearly had taken ...

I WENT OUT the other night for a beer with a friend, who claims to remember "vividly to this day" the 1965 theatrical release of Sam Peckinpah's first big-budget film, "Major Dundee." Or at least its ...

Sam Peckinpah, the man derided as “Bloody Sam” and shoved to the sidelines in the Hollywood that would later revere “The Wild Bunch” and “Ride the High Country,” gets a partial vindication this week. ...

Director Sam Peckinpah’s troubled 1965 epic Civil War Western returns to the Blu-ray format packaged for hardcore fans in Major Dundee: Limited Edition (Arrow Video, rated PG-13, 2.35:1 aspect ratio, ...

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