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Major Dundee is a 1965 American Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Harry Julian Fink and Oscar Saul. It stars Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn, Michael Anderson Jr., Mario Adorf, Brock Peters, and Senta Berger. The film is about a Union cavalry officer who leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners, and Indian scouts on an…
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Even the greatest filmmakers cannot conjure masterpieces out of thin air. Every grand cinematic achievement requires a solid foundation, often built through trial, error, and sometimes even failure. For Sam Peckinpah, the director of the 1969 classic *The Wild Bunch*, widely regarded as one of the greatest Westerns ever made, that foundation was laid during the tumultuous production of his 1965 film *Major Dundee*.…More
