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Middle-Aged. That it achieves such distinction so effortlessly is due in large part to the wizardry of Director-Producer Sam Peckinpah, who makes shooting a movie look as easy as whittling. Cable Hogue shows a new side of Peckinpah. It is not so melancholy as Ride the High Country or so raw and violent as The Wild Bunch. It is quiet, lyrical, bawdy, funny and sad in almost equal portions, exactly as a good back-room yarn should...
Cable, like other Peckinpah heroes, is a man who knows he is fast becoming an anachronism. Pike Bishop and his band of middle-aged outlaws in The Wild Bunch realized that the days of living by their guns were "passing fast," and aging Frontier Marshal Steve Judd was greeted with derisive hoots as he rode down the main street of a booming little Western town at the opening of Ride the High Country. Cable is a frontiersman at heart, with no love for cities or their inhabitants. It shames him to admit he cannot spell his name...
...play Valentine Smith. JANE: He read the book, and that's what gave him the whole business of the group family and the incredible orgies and all that kind of thing. PETER: They weren't incredible. COCKS: They were just regular, g old family orgies. JANE: What Peckinpah wanted to do in The Wild Bunch, from what I read, was for once not just to show violence but to show it in such a way that you really felt what it must be like to die. PETER: That is absolutely not true, think he knew, going in, that...
...WILD BUNCH. "Killing is no fun. I was trying to show what the hell it's like to get shot," says Director Sam Peckinpah about this film, which follows a ragtag bunch of bandits as they scrounge through the Southwest. While traveling with the bunch, Peckinpah provides long looks at scenes of uncontrolled frenzy in which the sense of chaotic violence is overwhelming...
...WILD BUNCH. The place is the Tex-Mex border, around the turn of the century, where a group of freebooting bandits try to scrounge a living out of a life that is fast becoming obsolete. Director Sam Peckinpah explores this violent world with hard-edged poetry and a sense of visual splendor that establishes him as one of the best American film makers...