Sam peckinpah

Sam Peckinpah

Jason Robards in The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

Indulging a creative and, to a degree, noble and socially responsible desire to shatter the nurtured illusion of violence in the westerns as idealized, innocent cowboys-versus-Indians gunfighting, Sam Peckinpah decided to take the subject in his own hands and show the world a piece of stylistically enhanced truth about what it meant to be an

James Coburn and director Sam Peckinpah on the set of PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID (1973).

The first major retrospective of his work in 20 years is coming to New York, but is Bloody Sam’s reputation for blood and guts well-earned or slightly skewed?

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Last week we brought you Philip French's 10 best westerns. Here we present your thoughts on which films really should have made the list