If They Move... Kill 'Em! - The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah (Paperback)

The only major biography of Sam Peckinpah in print, David Weddle's If They Move . . . Kill 'Em tells the wild story of Peckinpah's life with novelistic verve and does justice to one of the most important bodies of work in American cinema. Born into a clan of lumberjacks, ranchers, and frontier lawyers, David Samuel Peckinpah served in the Marines and then made his way to Hollywood, where he worked on a string of low-budget features before being hired as a writer for Gunsmoke in 1955. Quickly becoming the hottest writer in television, Peckinpah went on to direct a phenomenal series of features, including Ride the High Country, Straw Dogs, The Getaway, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and The Wild Bunch. The life he led -- glamorous, wild, and beset by personal demons -- is as vivid as his films. A hopeless romantic and a grim nihilist, inspiration to such luminaries as DePalma, Scorsese, and Tarantino, Sam Peckinpah was an audacious American original. If They Move . . . Kill 'Em is his wild and woolly story.

General

Imprint:	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2000
First published:	December 2000
Authors:	David Weddle
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	592
ISBN-13:	978-0-8021-3776-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre
LSN:	0-8021-3776-8
Barcode:	9780802137760

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