Peckinpah DVDs
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Major Dundee
derosad — 20 years ago(September 22, 2005 07:57 PM)
So far I have The Wild Bunch, Junior Bonner, Straw Dogs, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and I am awaiting the arrival of Major Dundee in the mail. Does anyone have any idea of other existing Peckinpah dvds I should purchase?? Any help would be appreciated.
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j_beaudine — 20 years ago(September 23, 2005 12:44 PM)
I heard the 2-disc special edition of The Osterman Weekend is a pretty good buy. It includes commentary from the Peckinpah biographers, new interviews with the cast and crew, and a rough cut of the film used for test audiences. Cross of Iron, The Killer Elite and The Deadly Companions are the only other films that I know exist in crappy DVDs.
Also, I hope the DVD of Straw Dogs you own is from the Criterion Collection. -
RexDartEskimoSpy — 20 years ago(January 22, 2006 11:08 AM)
In case you are all unaware, which I'm sure you aren't, Warner Bros. released a superb Peckinpah westerns box set. Each film is a Peckinpah must-see, and they all have excellent features (commentaries by those same dudes and documentaries).
"What's wrong with showing a guy getting his head cut off?" -Humphrey Bogart -
larsketzer — 20 years ago(February 12, 2006 02:16 PM)
If you own a multi-region dvd-player all 14 Peckinpah films are now released in their original theatrical aspect ratio.Most of them good transfers. One or two not so good: Killer Elite (non-anamorphic. Best: Peckinpah western box, Criterion Straw Dogs, Major Dundee, Osterman Weekend (Anchor Bay).
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daedalus1337 — 20 years ago(February 23, 2006 08:11 AM)
The new Warner DVD of The Getaway is great, I'd definitely recommend that as well as the now hard to find Criterion version of Straw Dogs (Do NOT settle for the MGM version, go the extra mile for the Criterion, it's worth it)