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Peckinpah Convoy to get remake -
9 December 2005
Sam Peckinpah's trucking movie Convoy is set to be remade. - -The film, which originally starred Kris Kristofferson and Ernest Borgnine, will be directed for the second time by John Singleton, the man behind Boyz 'N The Hood, 2 Fast 2 Furious and this year's sleeper hi
Sam Peckinpah - what members say
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Peckinpah classic 14 June 2004
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Bonner Boys bump Broncos and Bulls 19 January 2009
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A Study Of Nature 5 August 2004
Sam Peckinpah - filmography
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The Osterman Weekend
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Dennis Hopper
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Once a year John Tanner spends a long weekend with his three best friends from college. When he is approached by a CIA agent who has evidence proving that his three pals are actually spy's working with the Soviet Union, he reluctantly allows, his house to be wired with video surveillance equipment ..read more »
 
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from 550 members
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Convoy
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Certificate: 
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A mile-long convoy of protesting truckers are chased through three states by a corrupt speed-trap cop. And the green light is given via the CB airwaves for a convoy of moving violations in an all-action big-wheel adventure.
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from 2,926 members
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Cross Of Iron - Blu-ray
(1977)
Starring: James Coburn, James Mason, David Warner
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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A very strong anti-war message film, set during World War II and told entirely from the German perspective. A German Army Sergeant doggedly struggles to keep his platoon intact while surviving the horrors of the Russian front in 1943.
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from 229 members
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Cross Of Iron
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: James Coburn, James Mason, David Warner
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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A quote from Bertolt Brecht ends this bitter and angry war film by Sam Peckinpah: Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again. Peckinpah's intense and belligerently non-commercial work, (based on the book ..read more »
70%
from 3,641 members
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The Killer Elite
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Two professional killers employed by the C.I.A. become dangerous enemies when one of them betrays the other. An action-packed, explosive drama in which betrayal and bloody vengeance are the order of the day.
53%
from 435 members
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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t's 1881 in New Mexico, and the times they are a'changing. Pat Garrett, erstwhile travelling companion of the outlaw Billy the Kid has become a sheriff, tasked by cattle interests with ridding the territory of Billy. After Billy escapes, Pat assembles a posse and chases him through the territory, ..read more »
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from 1,424 member
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The Getaway
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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In Sam Peckinpah's version of Walter Hill's script, from Jim Thompson's novel, an ex-con and his wife go on the lam after a Texas bank heist. Denied parole after four well-behaved years, Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) sends his wife Carol (Ali MacGraw) to dirty politician Jack Benyon (Ben Johnson) to ..read more »
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from 2,734 members
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The Getaway - Blu-ray
(1972)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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McQueen and McGraw star as husband and wife bank robbers who do their best to elude the Texas police after a botched heist. Remade in a less compelling version in 1994, Peckinpah keeps this one fast and furious. The story is based on a Jim Thompson novel and features music by Quincy Jones.
66%
from 545 members
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Junior Bonner
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Sam Peckinpah eschews his slow-motion bullet ballets for this quiet character study of ex-rodeo cowboy turned drifter Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen), who returns home to Arizona to reconcile with the family he hasn't seen in years. Bonner is shocked to see that the solid family he was hoping to come ..read more »
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from 373 members
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The Getaway - HD
(1972)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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McQueen and McGraw star as husband and wife bank robbers who do their best to elude the Texas police after a botched heist. Remade in a less compelling version in 1994, Peckinpah keeps this one fast and furious. The story is based on a Jim Thompson novel and features music by Quincy Jones.
67%
from 106 members
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Straw Dogs
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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A quiet, peace-loving American moves with his English wife to an isolated village where he is harrassed by town bullies. He is finally pushed into a violent confrontation in order to protect himself and his wife.
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from 6,147 members
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Straw Dogs - Blu-ray
(1971)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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In Sam Peckinpah's brutal thriller, a quiet, peace-loving American (Dustin Hoffman) moves with his British-born wife (Susan George) to an isolated English village where he is constantly harassed by the locals. He is finally pushed into a violent confrontation in order to protect himself and his wife.
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from 325 members
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his advantage. He builds a house and makes money off the stagecoach passengers. Hildy, a ..read more »
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from 372 members
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The Wild Bunch - Blu-ray
(1969)
Starring: William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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As a counterpoint to the heroic horde of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, the ageing gunmen of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece break the very laws of honour which bind them in this bloody and meditative tale of the American West widely considered to be the self-conscious nail in the coffin of the genre. William ..read more »
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from 431 members
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The Wild Bunch
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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As a counterpoint to the heroic horde of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, the ageing gunmen of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece break the very laws of honour which bind them in this bloody and meditative tale of the American West--widely considered to be the self-conscious nail in the coffin of the genre. William ..read more »
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from 6,900 members
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Major Dundee
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, James Coburn
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Tense and fascinating study of the moods and hates that split America during the Civil War. A U.S. Cavalry officer leads a makeshift army against Apaches. Spectacular and bloodthirsty battle climax.
64%
from 382 members
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Deadly Companions
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Brian Keith, Maureen O'Hara
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Peckinpah's first feature follows a funeral procession through hostile Apache territory led by the man who accidentally killed the boy in the coffin. The soldier who made the promise of protection to the boy's mother hopes to settle more than one score at the end of the journey.
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from 92 members
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Sam Peckinpah facts
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...The Wild Bunch was a defining moment in the career of director Sam Peckinpah, and also the Western genre as a whole. Peckinpah took a seemingly stock western plot and produ...
