Major Dundee (The Extended Version)

Major Dundee (The Extended Version)
by Sam Peckinpah

Major Dundee (The Extended Version)
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Actor: Charlton Heston, James Coburn, Jim Hutton, Michael Anderson Jr., Richard Harris
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt
Writer: Sam Peckinpah
Editor: Donald W. Starling
Editor: Howard Kunin
Producer: Jerry Bresler
Writer: Harry Julian Fink
Writer: Oscar Saul
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Japanese (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 136 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-20
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures

Movie Reviews of Major Dundee (The Extended Version)

Movie Review: Classic Peckinpah
Summary: 5 Stars

Major Dundee is a must have for the collections of all lovers of the great American Western as seen by Sam Peckinpah.

Heston, Harris and Coburn are great as they almost always are. The story is well told with some light moments in it like the selection of volunteers. Although by todays standards the Indians are portrayed in a stylized sterotypical version common to the period when this movie was made, it's still a good yarn.

The political tensions and interplay with the French dominated country of Mexico during this period represents an interesting and often unkown (by Americans) under current to a classic Western story.

While not as gritty or bloody as some of his later stuff if you like a good Western and you like Peckinpah's work this is a must see.

Summary of Major Dundee (The Extended Version)

A union army officer volunteers to chase a savage indian leader through mexico. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/27/2006 Starring: Charlton Heston Jim Hutton Run time: 136 minutes Rating: Pg13
This restoration of Sam Peckinpah's 1965 western Major Dundee is nothing short of magnificent, a noble attempt at restoring a famously wrecked masterpiece. When Peckinpah went over budget and over schedule during the Mexico shoot, unshot scenes were canceled and the footage rudely cut by the studio. The director disowned the results. In 2005, surviving footage was patched back in, and a new musical soundtrack commissioned to replace the score Peckinpah hated. This raises some legitimate questions about interpreting a director's intentions, and about messing with film history, but Major Dundee--The Extended Version is such a rousing, mysterious experience, one feels grateful.

Major Dundee (Charlton Heston) is a vainglorious officer busted to the decidedly inglorious job of overseeing prisoners in a fort in New Mexico. An abduction gives him the excuse to mount an expedition into Mexico, chasing the perpetrators and perhaps a shot at greatness. His ragtag posse includes Confederate POWs, notably one Captain Ben Tyreen (Richard Harris), whose intense former friendship with Dundee is tainted with a sense of betrayal on both sides. (Heston and Harris, two actors not known for subtlety, are splendid.) Part Ahab, part Alexander the Great, Dundee leads the expedition away from its purpose and into a near-mythic kind of wandering.

Peckinpah gets everything right--the landscapes, the sneaky humor, the code of men. He also takes time to distinguish the supporting characters, such as Jim Hutton's awkward young officer and Senta Berger's stranded widow. The Peckinpah stock company of amazing character actors is in place, too, including James Coburn, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, L.Q. Jones, and Slim Pickens. It will never be exactly what Peckinpah envisioned, but now Major Dundee rides suspiciously close to greatness. --Robert Horton

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