Major Dundee (1965)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 134m
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn, Senta Berger
Synopsis:
A Union officer conducts a punitive raid on the Apache inside Mexican territory during the Civil War. He takes with him some Confederate POWs and other ragtag elements.
Review:
Archetypal Peckinpah scenario, and his first overtly personal work in that sense, although much messed about with by the producer. You have the flawed figure of authority (Heston) pursuing a genocidal agenda, and the more lawless 'hangers on', while in between there is Harris the romantic hero type. It doesn't really come off consistently well; whether it would have had the director had his cut, who can tell.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 134m
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn, Senta Berger
Synopsis:
A Union officer conducts a punitive raid on the Apache inside Mexican territory during the Civil War. He takes with him some Confederate POWs and other ragtag elements.
Review:
Archetypal Peckinpah scenario, and his first overtly personal work in that sense, although much messed about with by the producer. You have the flawed figure of authority (Heston) pursuing a genocidal agenda, and the more lawless 'hangers on', while in between there is Harris the romantic hero type. It doesn't really come off consistently well; whether it would have had the director had his cut, who can tell.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 134m
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn, Senta Berger
Synopsis:
A Union officer conducts a punitive raid on the Apache inside Mexican territory during the Civil War. He takes with him some Confederate POWs and other ragtag elements.
Review:
Archetypal Peckinpah scenario, and his first overtly personal work in that sense, although much messed about with by the producer. You have the flawed figure of authority (Heston) pursuing a genocidal agenda, and the more lawless 'hangers on', while in between there is Harris the romantic hero type. It doesn't really come off consistently well; whether it would have had the director had his cut, who can tell.