Review: Major Dundee by Sam Peckinpah, Jerry Bresler

1965 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-42
Author(s):  
Ernest Callenbach
Keyword(s):  
Sam Peckinpah

In Defense of Sam Peckinpah

1975 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 2-17
Author(s):  
Mark Crispin Miller
Keyword(s):  
Sam Peckinpah

Sam Peckinpah, Horizons West

Screen ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-96
Author(s):  
Wicking Christopher
Keyword(s):  
Sam Peckinpah

The Wild Bunch (dir. Sam Peckinpah, 1969)

2018 ◽  
pp. 249-253
Author(s):  
Nick Barbaro
Keyword(s):  
Sam Peckinpah

Sam Peckinpah, Actor’s Director

2019 ◽  
pp. 96-111
Author(s):  
Steve Vineberg
Keyword(s):  
Sam Peckinpah

In his essay on the acting in The Wild Bunch, Steve Vineberg delves into details about some of the film’s major players, including William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, and Robert Ryan, as well as members of the supporting cast. Vineberg gives us insightful background on the actors’ work in previous films, establishing links between this work and their performances in The Wild Bunch.

scholarly journals Topographies of Defeat

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asbjørn Grønstad
Keyword(s):  
American Film ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Sierra Madre ◽  
Per Se ◽  
John Huston ◽  
Sam Peckinpah ◽  
The One

TOPOGRAPHIES OF DEFEAT: MASCULINITY AND DESOLATION IN FAT CITY AND JUNIOR BONNER         Success stories, per se, are not really of much interest to me       (John Huston) In  1972,  two of Hollywood's most independent filmmakers -- John Huston and Sam Peckinpah -- directed two pensive, deceptively inconspicuous movies which probed the existential malaise afflicting a particular form of American masculinity. Fat City(1) -- Huston's first American film in more than a decade -- was released to much critical acclaim, and reviewers came to rank it alongside his best previous efforts like The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and The African Queen (1951).(2) Commercially, however, it was a modest failure.(3) With Junior Bonner, Peckinpah thoroughly defied the anticipations of critics and spectators who expected (and craved?) another cinematic blood orgy like the one in The...

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