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Sam Peckinpah has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1980s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Wild Bunch.
1973
Crime · Drama
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan
A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel
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 prostitute from the nearest town, moves in with him. Hogue has everything going his way until the advent of the automobile ends the era of the stagecoach.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, Slim Pickens
An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton
Trucker Rubber Duck and his buddies Pig Pen, Widow Woman and Spider Mike use their CB radios to warn one another of the presence of cops. But conniving Sheriff Wallace is hip to the truckers' tactics, and begins tricking the drivers through his own CB broadcasts. Facing constant harassment from the law, Rubber Duck and his pals use their radios to coordinate a vast convoy and rule the road.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Burt Young
An ancient intergalactic warrior arrives on Earth to put a stop to a demonic child's plot to reproduce Satan's next generation of evil.
Dir. Giulio Paradisi · With Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen
With his bronco-busting career on its last legs, Junior Bonner heads to his hometown to try his luck in the annual rodeo. But his fond childhood memories are shattered when he finds his family torn apart by his greedy brother and hard-drinking father.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Craig T. Nelson
Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill
