Description
The only major biography of Sam Peckinpah in print, David Weddles If They MoveKill Em! tells the wild story of Peckinpahs life with novelistic verve and does justice to one of the most important bodies of work in American cinema. Born into a clan of lumberjacks, ranchers, and frontier lawyers, David Samuel Peckinpah served in the Marines and then made his way to Hollywood, where he worked on a string of low-budget features before being hired as a writer for Gunsmoke in 1955. Quickly becoming the hottest writer in television, Peckinpah went on to direct a phenomenal series of features, including Ride the High Country, Straw Dogs, The Getaway, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and The Wild Bunch. The life he led glamorous, wild, and beset by personal demons is as vivid as his films. A hopeless romantic and a grim nihilist, inspiration to such luminaries as DePalma, Scorsese, and Tarantino, Sam Peckinpah was an audacious American original. If They MoveKill Em! is his wild and woolly story.
Author: David Weddle
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 12/18/2000
Pages: 592
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.04w x 1.25d
ISBN: 9780802137760
Language: English
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