Sam Peckinpah's crippled film plays best as a dry run for The Wild Bunch.
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10/03/05
Major Dundee (1965)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:14
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.3/10
Theatrical Release:Apr 8, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: Sam Peckinpah's dramatic tale of the west, and of revenge. A group of men follow Major Dundee, a officer in the Union Cavalry, down to Mexico to recapture some children kidnapped by Apaches.... [More]
Starring: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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06/18/05
Top CriticGiddy-up, Western lovers. This one is worth the return engagement.
06/09/05
Top CriticIt's one of those flawed, fascinating films that are somehow more intriguing than many a smooth-cheeked blockbuster.
06/02/05
Top CriticNo true Peckinpah-lover should pass it by.
05/13/05
Top CriticMajor Dundee, not a great movie but a great star-driven, big budget 1965 studio western, is back in all its fractured glory and confidence.
04/29/05
Top CriticStill a mess of great scenes sprinkled among some fairly monotonous action. But it's never completely dull.
04/15/05
Top CriticIt's half a great movie.
04/14/05
Top CriticIt's hard to imagine The Wild Bunch having the depth and grace it did without Peckinpah having this experience to draw on, and for that masterful film alone we're grateful to have Major Dundee back among the living again.
04/14/05
Top CriticIt's gratifying to see Sony expending such effort on an important but admittedly second-tier picture.
04/11/05
Top CriticThe movie still isn't great, but it's an important remonstration to that oldest of all studio-system curses: the producer who thinks he's more creative than the director.
04/08/05
Top CriticSam Peckinpah's famously butchered 1965 western, Major Dundee, has been returned to the big screen in a form that is closer to the director's original vision.
04/07/05
Top CriticAt its best you can feel Peckinpah, at the twilight of the studio era, dreaming of a far wilder bunch.
04/06/05
Top CriticPeckinpah's first patently runaway-train production seems less a restored classic than a missing link in the breakdown of Hollywood genre hegemony.
04/05/05
Top CriticCharlton Heston is the cavalry officer assigned to eliminate Apache resistance; Peckinpah makes a fine, ironic use of his stentorian presence in what becomes a very grubby context.
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