Archive for tag: The Wild Bunch

“I don’t like those hard goodbyes” – Strother Martin

12 September, 2009 (11:38) | Interviews, by Richard T. Jameson | By: Richard T. Jameson

[Originally published in Movietone News 66-67, March 1981]
Introduction by Richard T. Jameson
Strother Martin thought the folks from the Seattle Film Society wanted to meet him just because he had done some jobs of work for Sam Peckinpah and they had had Sam to tea a year or so earlier. Not that that gave [...]

Learning to Do It Right: “The Wild Bunch” – A Personal Reflection

11 March, 2009 (16:37) | Essays, Film Reviews, Sam Peckinpah, by Robert C. Cumbow | By: Robert C. Cumbow

Law and order and grace and understanding are things that have to be taught. … People are born to survive. They have instincts that go back millions of years. Unfortunately, some of those instincts are based on violence. There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is [...]