Peckinpah

American  

[pek-uhn-pah] / ˈpɛk ənˌpɑ /

noun

1. David Samuel Sam, 1925–84, U.S. film director and screenwriter.

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Peckinpah British  

/ ˈpɛkɪnˌpɑː /

noun

1. Sam ( uel David ). 1926–84, US film director, esp of Westerns, such as The Wild Bunch (1969). Among his other films are Straw Dogs (1971), Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), and Cross of Iron (1977)

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Example Sentences

After he wrote “Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others,” a serendipitous recount of how Davis found himself co-writing and directing an ill-fated remake of Sam Peckinpah’s unsung western “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia,” Mathews found that the stories started to fit an overall narrative and “became a progression.”

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But he considered “The Cincinnati Kid,” which he took over when Sam Peckinpah was fired, the first movie that was really his.

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The Hollywood western, of course, mythologized this country’s deserts and prairies as dramatic vistas against which such filmmakers as John Ford, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah could foreground their rugged characters.

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Both Young and Peckinpah “were mavericks and outlaws, with a deep respect for art,” his daughter said, per the New York Times.

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Filmmaker Sam Peckinpah directed him in the 1975 film “The Killer Elite,” starring James Caan, and the 1978 action comedy “Convoy,” starring Kris Kristofferson and Ali MacGraw.

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