If They Move... Kill 'Em!: The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah - Softcover

Weddle, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802137768 ISBN 13: 9780802137760

Verlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

The only major biography of Sam Peckinpah in print, David Weddle's If They Move...Kill 'Em! tells the wild story of Peckinpah's life with novelistic verve and does justice to one of the most important bodies of work in American cinema. Born into a clan of lumberjacks, ranchers, and frontier lawyers, David Samuel Peckinpah served in the Marines and then made his way to Hollywood, where he worked on a string of low-budget features before being hired as a writer for Gunsmoke in 1955. Quickly becoming the hottest writer in television, Peckinpah went on to direct a phenomenal series of features, including Ride the High Country, Straw Dogs, The Getaway, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and The Wild Bunch. The life he led -- glamorous, wild, and beset by personal demons -- is as vivid as his films. A hopeless romantic and a grim nihilist, inspiration to such luminaries as DePalma, Scorsese, and Tarantino, Sam Peckinpah was an audacious American original. If They Move...Kill 'Em! is his wild and woolly story.

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Reseña del editor

Now in paperback comes the first major biography of Sam Peckinpah, who began writing scripts for "Gunsmoke, The Rifleman", and "The Westerner" and went on to direct phenomenal films such as "Riding the High Country, Straw Dogs, The Getaway, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid", and "The Wild Bunch". of photos.

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The only major biography of Sam Peckinpah in print, David Weddle's If They Move . . . Kill 'Em! tells the wild story of Peckinpah's life with novelistic verve and does justice to one of the most important bodies of work in American cinema. Born into a clan of lumberjacks, ranchers, and frontier lawyers, David Samuel Peckinpah served in the Marines and then made his way to Hollywood, where he worked on a string of low-budget features before being hired as a writer for Gunsmoke in 1955. Quickly becoming the hottest writer in television, Peckinpah went on to direct a phenomenal series of features, including Ride the High Country, Straw Dogs, The Getaway, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and The Wild Bunch. The life he led -- glamorous, wild, and beset by personal demons -- is as vivid as his films. A hopeless romantic and a grim nihilist, inspiration to such luminaries as DePalma, Scorsese, and Tarantino, Sam Peckinpah was an audacious American original. If They Move . . . Kill 'Em! is his wild and woolly story.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802137768
• ISBN 13: 9780802137760
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 592
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar