Seems your video is pretty light on facts. Wild Bunch shocked audiences because it was the first big budget western made after the Production Code was done away with in lieu of the MPAA rating system. Prior to then, most American audiences hadn’t seen violence on that scale. But the “Bloody Sam” nickname was also media hyperbole. Immediately after Wild Bunch, Peckinpah made 2 films with little to no violence at all, “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” and “Junior Bonner,” which are both wonderful movies that didn’t get an audience at the time. Sam famously said “When I make a violent movie, people complain, but when I make a non-violent movie, they don’t even show up.”
My favorite movie of all time since i was 13 is and always will be " THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE ". I AM 64 NOW. It influenced my entire life. I loved the free-spirited wanderer aspect. Taking life as it came, rather than planning and making a certain life happen.
I also liked that film very much! I think it's probably the most obscure and underrated of his oeuvre. It was an utter box office flop,but a fine,fine film. Strother and LQ along with RG Armstrong, Peter Whitney, Gene Evans, William Mims,Kathleen Freeman and Sam's son Mathew.
@@FactsVerse In the video you say "After Ride The High Country and The Wild Bunch Sam helmed Major Dundee...", Major Dundee came out about 4 years before The Wild Bunch did. 1965 and 1969 were their releases.
I think his best and my personal favorite is "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia". It was unfairly lambasted by the critics when it was released for being so dark in tone but I love the movie.
My favorite movie is The Getaway. I don't what movie the best scene comes from but it is the one with the horses charging across a shallow river in slow motion.
My favorite Peckinpah film is The Wild Bunch. On the other hand, I believe that Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is the film that truly got his vision on the screen intact.
For me, Sam Peckinpah is one of the greatest Directors ever. He had his Ups & Downs, but he never made a bad movie. Even drunk as shit and high of coke, he made better movies than 95% of Hollywood Filmmakers today. ❤Sam Peckinpah❤
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His nickname was "Bloody Sam" and not "Bloody" Sam. The Peckinpah Posse was was group of authors who included Garner Simmons, David Weddle and Paul Seydor. The actors who found favor and subsequent work were known as the 'Peckinpah stock company'. His first movie was called The Deadly Companions. Next came Ride the High Country which garnered a fair bit of praise overseas and subsequently was re-evalued in the U.S. He was fired from Major Dundee after the film was handed over to Columbia. Charlton Heston backed the directorduring the shoot and pursuaded Columbia to let the director stay and finish his picture or else he would quit along with many of the cast if the fired Peckinpah. It was the music from Major Dundee that Peckinpah railed against the most and not Ride the High Country as your video states.
You forgot to mention the actor Strother Martin he was part of that group with lq and Warren Oates he was in the Wild Bunch and a hell of an actor thanks for the video
Sam did appreciate quite a lot the English actor David Warner as well! Not to mention Steve McQueen, Ali McGraw, Ben Johnson, James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Jason Robards, Ernst Borgnine... And he hired twice too the German star Senta Berger.
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One of my favourite “Peckinpah Films” is one he ironically never actually directed… The film ‘A Boy and His Dog’ is directed by frequent collaborator L. Q. Jones, however you can clearly see he learned his trade from the films he made with Sam as his directorial style & trademarks are all over this picture (that said I think the film would be far better & more appreciated if it was actually directed by Sam himself)
I love A Boy and his Dog. I can't believe it was directed by LQ Jones though. It is one weird film that works more for it's off the wall approaches and cultural statements than its technical prowess. Just proves how wide open Hwood was in the 70s before mass corporatization took over.
I totally disagree with the idea that the music in Ride the High Country is the “worse part.” Of course it is a matter of opinion but if you had bothered to do any real research you would have found that most Western film critics were actually very impressed with the score of this film. It imparts a sad, elegiac quality to the movie that perfectly reflects the subject manner & theme of the film.
It sounds like he had ptsd from WWII when the narrator said during WWII is when he picked up habits of drinking and smoking and picking up ladies of the night. If he did not serve in the war, he might have lived longer sadly.
"Sammie David's" (his family's name for him) drinking was reportedly already well established in his teens. The story is that he grew up in Sacramento, California in a family of lawyers and government workers. But the Peckinpah's were a long-time California family that had come there as settlers maybe a century earlier and had a member who still owned a cattle ranch, possibly in the Central Valley. Young Sammie spent many summers at the ranch where the ranch hands taught him manly skills like riding a horse, roping steers, handling firearms, and "drinking the brown" (whiskey). Reportedly, he was already going on week-long benders in his teens. As far as what might have kept him from living longer, he apparently also experienced some relatively mild undiagnosed and untreated mental condition (schizophrenia?, bipolar?, depression?; it's not known for sure) which combined poorly with his drinking.
Ok I/m not watching any further than the 15 second mark.. If you knew anything about the great man in question the term “bloody Sam” was completely & utterly anathema to him.. Show some goddamn respect !
Sam was a genius film maker but he couldn't/wouldn't suffer fools and this always put him at odds with the suits and bean counters. Given his body of work, imagine the films he could have made given a free hand. Alas, it wasn't to be and, in the end, like a good Sam Peckinpah film, his inner demons got the best of him.
@@FactsVerse, I've seen all of the films that you mentioned and I remember the most controversial one of his that was released here in the U.K. was 'Straw Dogs' because of its prolonged rape scene - this led to it being banned on video release right up until 1st July 2002 in this country. As regards Monty Python's homage to Sam Peckinpah I've often wondered if he actually saw their 'review' of his version of 'Salad Days' - I imagine that if he did see it then he would've been greatly honoured by it despite it being a complete spoof of his genre of film-making, wouldn't you? Especially when their own film critic / reviewer Eric Idle gets machine-gunned at the very end of it for his constant sniffing, doesn't he? ✌😁✌
Name the only actor to have a key supporting role in 3 Peckinpah films and SURVIVE all three. C'mon now don't be shy! Just be sure you don't let your mouth overload your hardware, Cowboy!
I think the current so called director have ruined Hollywood with all the fkn sequels. All those movies Sam made were good movie you make a movie then move on
Bad history here in places ... Major Dundee for Columbia came well ahead TWB, but great images of Same I have not seen. I met him when he was shooting the Killer Elite..
Quentin Tarantino might as well have been Peckinpah's son. He was the total inheritor of what Peckinpah did, which was considered x-rated and too brutal at the time. Turned out Peckinpah was a pioneer of realism, and even clean Spielberg ended up getting into violent reality eventually in Saving Private Ryan and Munich etc. Watch 'Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia; It's so amazing. Peckinpah films really have a taste of their period at the same time. They are set in various times, but they reek of the free spirited 60s and 70s, before freedom got shut down in the 1980s.
Peckinpah paved the way for what could be permitted onscreen in terms of the depiction of violence but it wasn/t glorified at all.. it was a very sad poetry .. if he was alive today he would most definitely laugh his Fvcking ass off bout ur comment with QT .. as Do I .. so I shall promptly do the same 😆🤣🤣
@@DiZZaYWhALeY Well, maybe QT does glorify violence some, but that's not all he does. My point was simply that even though I was a kid, Sam's films were widely panned as being far too much for people to bear. That's the point I was making. The worst period for violence was really the 80s, when lots of mainstream films had people dancing around bullets, ie Bev Hills Cop 3.
Different generations, and opposite mindsets! QT clearly enjoys violence... As for Sam, je mostly intended to be realistic, and hated the classic Hwood hypocrisy about it, but he never enjoyed it.
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Seems your video is pretty light on facts. Wild Bunch shocked audiences because it was the first big budget western made after the Production Code was done away with in lieu of the MPAA rating system. Prior to then, most American audiences hadn’t seen violence on that scale. But the “Bloody Sam” nickname was also media hyperbole. Immediately after Wild Bunch, Peckinpah made 2 films with little to no violence at all, “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” and “Junior Bonner,” which are both wonderful movies that didn’t get an audience at the time. Sam famously said “When I make a violent movie, people complain, but when I make a non-violent movie, they don’t even show up.”
My favorite movie of all time since i was 13 is and always will be " THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE ". I AM 64 NOW. It influenced my entire life. I loved the free-spirited wanderer aspect. Taking life as it came, rather than planning and making a certain life happen.
I know I'm a year late but that's a nice way you put it😂
I also liked that film very much! I think it's probably the most obscure and underrated of his oeuvre. It was an utter box office flop,but a fine,fine film. Strother and LQ along with RG Armstrong, Peter Whitney, Gene Evans, William Mims,Kathleen Freeman and Sam's son Mathew.
Sam was an iconic director. The Wild Bunch and Ride the High Country is my favorite films. Great Director, Amazing Man!
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Agree, Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia is also good, Junior Bonner too.
I like Major Dundee myself.
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In the video you say "After Ride The High Country and The Wild Bunch Sam helmed Major Dundee...", Major Dundee came out about 4 years before The Wild Bunch did.
1965 and 1969 were their releases.
'The Getaway' is my favorite of his films. I watch it at least once a year.
No mention of the cross of iron? That’s one superb violent film!
Greatest quote regarding him;
"It was directed by Sam Peckinpah, so you know most of the people at the beginning of the movie WON'T be in the end."
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"The Big 3" for me would be "The Wild Bunch" "The Getaway" & "Straw Dogs" 😃
I think his best and my personal favorite is "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia". It was unfairly lambasted by the critics when it was released for being so dark in tone but I love the movie.
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Critics! What the fk do they really know. Whoever gives them the most $$ gets the best reviews. They also could not get a real job anyway
100% agree. 'Alfedo Garcia' is an awesome movie.
My favorite movie is The Getaway. I don't what movie the best scene comes from but it is the one with the horses charging across a shallow river in slow motion.
Wild Bunch 😉
My favorite Peckinpah film is The Wild Bunch. On the other hand, I believe that Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is the film that truly got his vision on the screen intact.
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@@FactsVerse Anything having to do with Apocalypse Now or John Carpenter's The Thing.
It doesn't get any better then PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID...thank you Sam
For me, Sam Peckinpah is one of the greatest Directors ever.
He had his Ups & Downs, but he never made a bad movie.
Even drunk as shit and high of coke, he made better movies than 95% of Hollywood Filmmakers today.
❤Sam Peckinpah❤
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@@FactsVerse hm🤔
Maybe something about Pier Paolo Pasolini, a Director who paid with his life for making "120 Days of Sodom"
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There are/were some very interesting HongKong Filmmakers which deserve attention too.
His nickname was "Bloody Sam" and not "Bloody" Sam. The Peckinpah Posse was was group of authors who included Garner Simmons, David Weddle and Paul Seydor. The actors who found favor and subsequent work were known as the 'Peckinpah stock company'. His first movie was called The Deadly Companions. Next came Ride the High Country which garnered a fair bit of praise overseas and subsequently was re-evalued in the U.S. He was fired from Major Dundee after the film was handed over to Columbia. Charlton Heston backed the directorduring the shoot and pursuaded Columbia to let the director stay and finish his picture or else he would quit along with many of the cast if the fired Peckinpah. It was the music from Major Dundee that Peckinpah railed against the most and not Ride the High Country as your video states.
You forgot to mention the actor Strother Martin he was part of that group with lq and Warren Oates he was in the Wild Bunch and a hell of an actor thanks for the video
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Thank you for the reply I appreciate it
Sam did appreciate quite a lot the English actor David Warner as well! Not to mention Steve McQueen, Ali McGraw, Ben Johnson, James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Jason Robards, Ernst Borgnine... And he hired twice too the German star Senta Berger.
Never heard of this story interesting thanks for sharing
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I think the wild bunch is his all time classic
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My favorite Peckinpah? Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, the posthumous Turner version.
Possibly one of the very best westerns ever, and definitely a most remarkable cinematic achievement.
One of my favourite “Peckinpah Films” is one he ironically never actually directed…
The film ‘A Boy and His Dog’ is directed by frequent collaborator L. Q. Jones, however you can clearly see he learned his trade from the films he made with Sam as his directorial style & trademarks are all over this picture (that said I think the film would be far better & more appreciated if it was actually directed by Sam himself)
I love A Boy and his Dog. I can't believe it was directed by LQ Jones though. It is one weird film that works more for it's off the wall approaches and cultural statements than its technical prowess. Just proves how wide open Hwood was in the 70s before mass corporatization took over.
What do you think of Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid?
Wild Bunch (1969) = FAVORITE!
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The Wild Bunch Is A Really Good Western And Straw Dogs Is Absolutely Brilliant
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I totally disagree with the idea that the music in Ride the High Country is the “worse part.” Of course it is a matter of opinion but if you had bothered to do any real research you would have found that most Western film critics were actually very impressed with the score of this film. It imparts a sad, elegiac quality to the movie that perfectly reflects the subject manner & theme of the film.
They meant the score from Major Dundee was pretty awful and not RTHC. This article wasn't well written or researched.
No mention of Cross of Iron is sacrilegious, by far the best Peck movie.
Sacrilegious is not not giving the man due respect .. His name is not peck ok ffs 🤦🏻
Honestly, i think almost all of his films are perfect.
You're a true fan ❤
My all time favorite is CONVOY .
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To tell the truth, John Ford's last western was in 1964, Cheyenne Autumn.
Correction. Major Dundee was produced & released B4 the Wild Bunch. Get UR Peckinpah facts correct.
It sounds like he had ptsd from WWII when the narrator said during WWII is when he picked up habits of drinking and smoking and picking up ladies of the night. If he did not serve in the war, he might have lived longer sadly.
"Sammie David's" (his family's name for him) drinking was reportedly already well established in his teens. The story is that he grew up in Sacramento, California in a family of lawyers and government workers. But the Peckinpah's were a long-time California family that had come there as settlers maybe a century earlier and had a member who still owned a cattle ranch, possibly in the Central Valley. Young Sammie spent many summers at the ranch where the ranch hands taught him manly skills like riding a horse, roping steers, handling firearms, and "drinking the brown" (whiskey). Reportedly, he was already going on week-long benders in his teens.
As far as what might have kept him from living longer, he apparently also experienced some relatively mild undiagnosed and untreated mental condition (schizophrenia?, bipolar?, depression?; it's not known for sure) which combined poorly with his drinking.
@@davidjordan2011 the name does not sound familiar. My 3rd great uncle was Will Latta who for Addison Hinkson in Sacramento.
Ok I/m not watching any further than the 15 second mark.. If you knew anything about the great man in question the term “bloody Sam” was completely & utterly anathema to him.. Show some goddamn respect !
My favorite Peckinpah movie is the wild Bunch. My second favorite is Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. My third favorite is straw dogs
Sam was a genius film maker but he couldn't/wouldn't suffer fools and this always put him at odds with the suits and bean counters.
Given his body of work, imagine the films he could have made given a free hand.
Alas, it wasn't to be and, in the end, like a good Sam Peckinpah film, his inner demons got the best of him.
My favourite film of his is his version of 'Salad Days' which Monty Python 'reviewed' many years ago. 👍🤣👍
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@@FactsVerse, I've seen all of the films that you mentioned and I remember the most controversial one of his that was released here in the U.K. was 'Straw Dogs' because of its prolonged rape scene - this led to it being banned on video release right up until 1st July 2002 in this country.
As regards Monty Python's homage to Sam Peckinpah I've often wondered if he actually saw their 'review' of his version of 'Salad Days' - I imagine that if he did see it then he would've been greatly honoured by it despite it being a complete spoof of his genre of film-making, wouldn't you? Especially when their own film critic / reviewer Eric Idle gets machine-gunned at the very end of it for his constant sniffing, doesn't he? ✌😁✌
Interesting story
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Who wrote this junk? Jihn Ford's last western was Cheyenne Autumn in 1964. Major Dundee was made five years BEFORE The Wild Bunch?
I actually like straw dog. It is a bit different but still good to me.
CABLE HOGUE, fer crissakes.
Disperazione, romanticismo, violenza: che altro ?❤
Y’all got the order of these films all screwed up…
Like your video
Sam worked briefly as an actor, and you can see him play a gas meter man in the original INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.
Fun stuff, thank you for sharing this info. We'll check it 👍
@@FactsVerse "Sam Peckinpah... Charlie", IMDB, Cast, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956)
He also did some second unit work for Don Siegel when his health (S.P.'s) was shot and he was struggling to get himself together.
The Wild Bunch and Cross of Iron
Name the only actor to have a key supporting role in 3 Peckinpah films and SURVIVE all three. C'mon now don't be shy! Just be sure you don't let your mouth overload your hardware, Cowboy!
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I'd wish he directed the professional. "Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia "
There's nothing about the poetry or depth in his movies. I know it's a short video but you could have shown a more balanced picture of his movies.
Cross of Iron
I think the current so called director have ruined Hollywood with all the fkn sequels. All those movies Sam made were good movie you make a movie then move on
Cross Of Iron.
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Straw Dogs
One of Sam's best! Be safe and have a great day 💕
KILLER ELITE!
Bad history here in places ... Major Dundee for Columbia came well ahead TWB, but great images of Same I have not seen. I met him when he was shooting the Killer Elite..
Don't forget The Deadly Companions, tho S.P. kind of disowned it.
It's actually pretty good, and Cochran is a perfect S.P. character.
cross of iron...
This is factually inaccurate in many ways
Bit of a psycho actually. He left those puppies to die. Read the biography.
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Quentin Tarantino might as well have been Peckinpah's son. He was the total inheritor of what Peckinpah did, which was considered x-rated and too brutal at the time. Turned out Peckinpah was a pioneer of realism, and even clean Spielberg ended up getting into violent reality eventually in Saving Private Ryan and Munich etc. Watch 'Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia; It's so amazing. Peckinpah films really have a taste of their period at the same time. They are set in various times, but they reek of the free spirited 60s and 70s, before freedom got shut down in the 1980s.
Peckinpah paved the way for what could be permitted onscreen in terms of the depiction of violence but it wasn/t glorified at all.. it was a very sad poetry .. if he was alive today he would most definitely laugh his Fvcking ass off bout ur comment with QT .. as Do I .. so I shall promptly do the same 😆🤣🤣
@@DiZZaYWhALeY Well, maybe QT does glorify violence some, but that's not all he does. My point was simply that even though I was a kid, Sam's films were widely panned as being far too much for people to bear. That's the point I was making. The worst period for violence was really the 80s, when lots of mainstream films had people dancing around bullets, ie Bev Hills Cop 3.
Different generations, and opposite mindsets! QT clearly enjoys violence... As for Sam, je mostly intended to be realistic, and hated the classic Hwood hypocrisy about it, but he never enjoyed it.
The Ballad of Cable Hogue.
Ride the High Country
Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia
Bring me the head of Alfred Garcia