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Directors' cuts and butchers' cuts.(Film)
THE 1950s AND 1960s may have been one of the great periods of American cinema but it was a time when film art was in the greatest danger. Archiving and preservation were rudimentary, film studios, distributors, censors and television stations hacked prints to fit time slots, to remove so-called suggestive scenes, and sometimes to get back at a difficult director. All of the above happened to the great Sam Peckinpah.
It has to be admitted that Peckinpah could be extraordinarily difficult. He was, as he put it, a "working alcoholic" and a compulsive perfectionist. "Sam had the ability of setting the producers and the executives who financed the film against him, ...
- Sony Pictures Releasing's Reconstructed Sam Peckinpah Epic 'Major Dundee'...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 8, 2005 700+ words
...PRNewswire/ -- "Major Dundee," the first big...iconic filmmaker Sam Peckinpah, will celebrate its...featuring Redman and other Peckinpah experts, and other special features. "Major Dundee" was produced by Jerry...Fink, Oscar Saul and Peckinpah, from a story by Fink...
- Settling 'Dundee' score.(Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Burlingame, Jon March 11, 2005 700+ words
...HOLLYWOOD -- "Major Dundee," Sam Peckinpah's first major...South." "Major Dundee" was his last...died in 1983. Peckinpah had no say in...I think Sam Peckinpah would have approved...minute cut of "Major Dundee" opens April...
- Bourbon & buckshot: revisiting Sam Peckinpah's bonkers West.(FILM)
- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Magazine Erickson, Steve March 1, 2006 700+ words
...sensibilities, as well as Peckinpah's lost 1965 "classic" Major Dundee, which is something...us the grail of the Peckinpah box is Pat Garrett...Garrett has usurped Major Dundee in the Peckinpah pantheon as the tour...
- 'Dundee': Peckinpah misfires.(ARTS & CULTURE)(FROM THE VAULTS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times April 30, 2005 700+ words
...director's cut" of "Major Dundee" back in 1965, Sam Peckinpah convinced himself...cavalry officers, "Major Dundee" ran 124 minutes...STARS TITLE: "Major Dundee: The Extended Version...Directed by Sam Peckinpah. Produced by Jerry...
- Westerns Channel Adds Rarely Seen Infamous 1960 Television Series 'The...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 16, 2004 700+ words
...and should be a true treat for Peckinpah fans," says Robert Leighton...marathon, Westerns presents Peckinpah's "Major Dundee," "The Ballad of Cable Hogue...the original documentary "Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood...
- Westerns Channel Begins Production on Original Documentary Focusing on Western...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 29, 2003 700+ words
...influential, director Sam Peckinpah. The feature-length special...Western films directed by Peckinpah: The Deadly Companions...the High Country (1962), Major Dundee (1965), The Wild Bunch...and "Gunsmoke," where Peckinpah began his directing career...
- 'Major' unveiling: Peckinpah pic among Munich highlights.(WORLD NEWS)(Munich...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Koehl, Christian April 25, 2005 700+ words
...Adorf and the reissue of Sam Peckinpah's first major studio movie...international premiere of Sam Peckinpah's "Major Dundee" (aka "Sierra Chariba...a release never accepted by Peckinpah. Pic co-starred German actor...
- Peckinpah: how the West was gunned
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Jay Carr, Globe Staff March 17, 1995 700+ words
...people were aghast at the bloodshed in Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" (1969). One...Bunch," whatever denunciatory agenda Peckinpah may have thought he was pursuing, at...landscapes, its details demand largeness. Peckinpah was a native Californian, psychically...
Source: HighBeam Research, Directors' cuts and butchers' cuts.(Film)