Tag: Sam Peckinpah

The Killer Elite Script

Script by:Marc Norman (Screenplay), Stirling Silliphant (Screenplay)
Directed by:Sam Peckinpah
Year:1975
IMDb:tt0073240

Plot:Mike Locken is one of the principle members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the C.I.A. and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.
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Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia Script

Script by:Sam Peckinpah (Screenplay), Gordon T. Dawson (Screenplay)
Directed by:Sam Peckinpah
Year:1974
IMDb:tt0071249

Plot:An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
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Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid Script

Script by:Rudy Wurlitzer (Screenplay)
Directed by:Sam Peckinpah
Year:1973
IMDb:tt0070518

Plot:An aging Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons--his sole purpose being to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
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Villa Rides Script

Script by:William Douglas Lansford (Novel), William Douglas Lansford (Adaptation), Robert Towne (Screenplay), Sam Peckinpah (Screenplay)
Directed by:Buzz Kulik
Year:1968
IMDb:tt0063775

Plot:Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner & pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa & his band of dedicated men in a march across Mexico battling the Colorados & stealing women's hearts as they go. But each has a nemesis among his friends: Arnold is tormented by Fierro, Villa's right-hand-man; and Villa must face possible betrayal by his own president's naiveté
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue Script

Script by:John Crawford (Writer), Edmund Penney (Writer), Gordon T. Dawson (Writer)
Directed by:Sam Peckinpah
Year:1970
IMDb:tt0065446

Plot:Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his advantage. He builds a house and makes money off the stagecoach passengers. Hildy, a prostitute from the nearest town, moves in with him. Hogue has everything going his way until the advent of the automobile ends the era of the stagecoach.
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The Glory Guys Script

Script by:Sam Peckinpah (Writer), Hoffman Birney (Novel)
Directed by:Arnold Laven
Year:1965
IMDb:tt0059232

Plot:Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a generic war story covering the enlistment, training, and operational deployment of a group of recruits that could take place in any time period.
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The Osterman Weekend Script

Script by:Robert Ludlum (Novel), Ian Masters (Adaptation), Alan Sharp (Screenplay)
Directed by:Sam Peckinpah
Year:1983
IMDb:tt0086058

Plot:The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security in this adaptation of the Robert Ludlum novel.
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Ride the High Country (1962) Script

Script by:N.B. Stone Jr. (Story), Sam Peckinpah (Screenplay), Robert Creighton Williams (Screenplay)
Directed by:Sam Peckinpah
Year:1962
IMDb:tt0056412

Plot:An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
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The Getaway Script

Script by:Walter Hill (Screenplay), Jim Thompson (Novel)
Directed by:Sam Peckinpah
Year:1972
IMDb:tt0068638

Plot:A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.
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