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 ...

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 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 ...

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. ...

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Major Dundee: The Extended Version In later years, Sam Peckinpah was able to burnish his image as a much-aggressed maverick by insisting that his first big-budget picture, "Major Dundee," was ...

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of ...

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Somewhere in the development of this Jerry Bresler production the central premise was sidetracked and a maze of little-meaning action substituted. What started out as a straight storyline (or at least ...