Peckinpah
Americannoun
noun
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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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
Other notable roles include “Slaughter,” with Jim Brown, the Sam Peckinpah television film “The Battle of Cable Hogue” and “The Poseidon Adventure” in which she played Linda Rogo, Ernest Borgnine’s character’s wife.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2023
Next, the 26-minute, memory-overloaded “Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah Anecdotes” has a collection of actors discuss working with the master director including Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Ernest Borgnine, David Warner, Ali MacGraw, L.Q.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 8, 2021
According to the Guardian, this macho, West Virginian-set crime thriller feels like “something that got cooked up after a bender guzzling a Sam Peckinpah box set.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2020
It’s open about its influences, serving them up omakase-style: the John Woo course, the Sam Peckinpah course, the Wong Kar-wai palate cleanser.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2019
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