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In Reply to: James Coburn dead of heart attack at 74 (nt) posted by bubbahotep on November 19, 2002 at 01:22:22:
He will be sorely missed. Even his bad films were enjoyable. I alway laugh when I think about "The President's Analyst". Among my very favorite films. He was a cool guy.
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I think he was a really great and diverse actor with quite a sense of dramatic and comic timing
He was certainly in a LOT of films
Apart from "Flint" which is a great spoof of the 007 genre, I thought his greatest role was as the battle hardened realist Sgt. Steiner in Peckinpahs Cross of Iron
Eric
Tokyo
Peckinpah's western "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid." Critics killed that movie but I think it's a classic, if revisionist, western. Great performances by Coburn, Kristofferson, and Paul Fix. It also had wonderful - almost career summing - performances by two of the best character actors in the history of Hollywood: Slim Pickens and Katy Jurado.Speaking of Katy Jurado.....she recently passed away yet I read not a single word of appreciation or even a mention of her on this forum. I admit to being just as guily as the rest of this crew. Anyway, here was one of the great Latina actresses who had a fine Hollywood career playing real women instead of stereotypes. Did she not receive an Oscar nod for "High Noon"? She was a gifted actress, the quality of which is too rare these days.
Pat Garret and Billy the Kid is truly a Classic, I think Sam Peckinpah is greatly underappreciated as a Director.
He was certainly capable of capturing great performances from his actors, and the only film of his I've seen that was really bad was Major Dundee, a film that was ripped to ribbons by the editor and one that Peckinpah subsequently disowned (for good reason)
Bob Dylan has a small part in PG + BTK too doesn't he?
Full of great lines, great actors and very very dark humor
To my embarassment it wasn't until recently I discovered that Pat Garret and Billy the Kid were real people, and not just a work of fiction
I wonder how faithfully Peckinpah captured the story?
Eric
Tokyo
Dylan had a small but important role in the film, in addition to scoring it.The story is factual but not true-to-facts. Peckinpah and the writers took considerable artistic license with history. That said, the movie is more a fable of the creation and end of myth. I think it's a moving and memorable film. I would rate it as one of the great westerns. From that era, only "Little Big Man" and "Will Penny" are as good.
"Major Dundee" isn't a terrible film. It would have been considerably better had the studio not taken it away from Peckinpah at the editing stage. I would love to see a "director's cut." Alas, there isn't one and, since Peckinpah has been gone for several years, not likely to be. UNLESS SOME LUCKY SOUL CAN FIND A SHOOTING SCRIPT AND REEDIT THE FILM - if the edited out footage is still extant.
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