Moving Pictures Episode #2.5 (Season 2, Episode 5)
TV Episode | Documentary

Moving Pictures

Episode #2.5 (Season 2, Episode 5)

TV Episode | Documentary

Tonight's programme is the first full-length portrait of controversial director Sam Peckinpah who died in 1984. His films included The Getaway and Straw Dogs, but he was most closely identified with westerns like The Wild Bunch, Ride the ...See moreTonight's programme is the first full-length portrait of controversial director Sam Peckinpah who died in 1984. His films included The Getaway and Straw Dogs, but he was most closely identified with westerns like The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country, Guns in the Afternoon, and Pat Garrett. Combining the intensely violent with the deeply elegiac, Peckinpah did more than anyone to dramatise the death of the west. Actors Kris Kristofferson, James Coburn, Ali MacGraw, Jason Robards and other collaborators reflect on working with this unique maverick. Written by Radio Times See less

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
Howard Schuman Self - Presenter Self - Presenter See fewer	Armchair Theatre (1956)
James Coburn Self Self See fewer	The Great Escape (1963)
Kris Kristofferson Self Self See fewer	Blade (1998)
Ali MacGraw Self Self See fewer	Love Story (1970)
Sam Peckinpah Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Wild Bunch (1969)
Jason Robards Self Self See fewer	All the President's Men (1976)