Articles for tag: James Coburn, Sam Peckinpah, Walter Hill

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Sam Peckinpah – Hollywood’s Last Rebel Director

“Sam is the only person I ever physically threatened on a film set.” Charlton Heston on the tumultuous working relationship with director Sam Peckinpah during the filming of Major Dundee. (1965). IMDB.com”Sam always pushed me over the abyss and then jumped in after me. He took me on some great adventures.” James Coburn speaking of ...

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Summer Movies of 1978

For this article I thought it would be fun to look back at the summer movie season of thirty years ago, 1978, to look at what was one of the best summer movie seasons of all time. No less then eight of the nineteen movies released that summer were big hits. Only three movies were ...

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The Best and Worst Movies About Jesse James

In 2007, a new movie will be released called The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, starring Brad Pitt as perhaps the most famous wild west outlaw of all time and Casey Affleck as the dirty little coward who shot him…or so the saying goes. One can hope this will be the ...

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Summer Movies of 1984

Here is the last in a series of looks back at summer movie releases through the years. This article will cover 1984 which was one of the most successful summer movie seasons in movie history. Movies that hit, hit big. Movies that failed seem to fail miserably. Four of the top five grossing movies of ...