Sam Peckinpah: Violence Auteur

Don’t forget PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID with that Bob Dylan soundtrack! Great film right there.



Probably the most thing that I like about that film is that Peckinpah casted actors who appeared in the harmless, cowboy films of the early era such as Slim Pickens,Jack Elam, and Chill Wills. And threw them into a mix of a new American Western…The violent Western.



It was (IMO) Sam’s way of saying that times are changing and that Gene Autry or Gary Cooper aren’t the type of guys to save the day. Instead, It would be the anti-hero robbing a bank.