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Sam Peckinpah

Legendary Hollywood outlaw Sam Peckinpah was one of the greatest directors of Westerns and shocked Hollywood with violent classics like The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

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James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson look at the camera in the movie Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
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A Restored Western Masterpiece from Sam Peckinpah & Bob Dylan Was Butchered 50 Years Ago

After a studio hack job and wild, drunken production, Peckinpah tried to get his name removed from Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid.

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Dustin Hoffman's broken glasses in Straw Dogs
Straw Dogs (1971)
Straw Dogs and Sam Peckinpah's Philosophy of Violence

Hated by many, praised by some, Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs dared to destroy the integrity of households with a violent display of twisted moral codes.

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