Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Jul 25, 2004

1h 23m

★ 7.8

Overview

An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western genre forever.

Genres

Documentary

TV Movie

Production Companies

FBN Productions

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Cast

Self - Narrator (voice)

Kris Kristofferson

Self

R.G. Armstrong

Self

Stanley Booth

Self

Garth Craven

Self

Gordon T. Dawson

Self

Benicio del Toro

Self

Roger Ebert

Self

Donnie Fritts

Self

Chalo González

Self

Katherine Haber

Self

L.Q. Jones

Self

Michael Madsen

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