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 ...

In 1986, I wrote a book about Universal Pictures’ attempts to re-edit Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil. ” During the research, I came up with a long and troubling list of movies by talented directors that had ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peckinpah believed that Major Dundee was one of his finest films. His producer Jerry Bresler and the bosses at Columbia Pictures had a very different opinion. The 160-minute version conceived by the ...

The history of Sam Peckinpah’s “Major Dundee” remains every bit as messy as the film itself. Sony’s “Extended Version” of the renegade director’s 1965 cavalry western aims to make things as right as ...

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. ...

Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/4601413/4601414" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Los ...

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 ...