The Wild Bunch certainly is full of memoriable lines and shots. It was the first time I knew Lt. McCale and his navy could act and why Ernest Borgine won Oscars. Any movie whose first real line is "If they move, shoot 'em" can't be all bad, expecially after riding into town past kids making red ants and a scorpion fight, their little angelic faces smiling .... kinda like the smiles at the end after ... well, either you know or don't and I don't want to let loose any spoilers.
Pat Garret is a bit uneven. The uncut version they have been showing has some great scenes not in the original but seems to slow the movie down. It is worth a view and Bob Dylan's bit pieces are great.
Straw dogs is a painful movie. The remake is painful, but in a different way. I never got through it tho they show it incessantly on cable.
Pekinpaw used a lot of the same people over and over and would pit them against each other. In "Ride the high country" he wouldn't let the "good guys" around the "bad guys" except when filming, and it was the first time most of them worked together. He liked the tension like he liked his drink.
My favorite of his is "Cross of Iron" w/ James Colburn. A War movie about Germans on the eastern front. Maybe the best war novel ever and the movie lives up to it. Funny, Germans fighting the Russians in WWII didn't seem to play well at the theaters, can't imagine why. ONly in the 70s and probably only Sam would have tried. But if you want to watch a serious war movie (kinda like what they made after korea except more explict and psycho and psycholdelic) try it. It is in pieces on the internet but they never did a great DVD cut of it.
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