Major Dundee is a 1965 American Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, and James Coburn. Written by Harry Julian Fink, the film is about a Union cavalry officer who leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners, and Indian scouts on an expedition into Mexico during the American Civil War to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding United States bases and settlements in the New Mexico territory. Major Dundee was filmed in various locations in Mexico. The movie was filmed in Eastman Color by Pathécolor, print by Technicolor.
^"Two US Films Roll in Mexico". Variety. February 12, 1964. p. 5.
^This figure consists of anticipated rentals accruing distributors in North America. See "Top Grossers of 1965", Variety, January 5, 1966 p. 36
MajorDundee is a 1965 American Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, and James Coburn. Written...
the 19th century when Dundee was the centre of the global jute industry. This, along with its other major industries, gave Dundee its epithet as the city...
lifetime. Peckinpah's other films include Ride the High Country (1962), MajorDundee (1965), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), Straw Dogs (1971), The Getaway...
The Dundee derby is a football match between Dundee and Dundee United. The clubs are based yards apart in the city of Dundee, the fourth-largest city in...
with Universal and received an offer to make a Western at Columbia, MajorDundee, which was directed by Sam Peckinpah, and Hutton played the third lead...
professional outcast due to the production difficulties of his previous film, MajorDundee (1965), and his firing from the set of The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Peckinpah's...
The University of Dundee is a public research university based in Dundee, Scotland. It was founded as a university college in 1881 with a donation from...
Hitchcock's classic The Birds (1963) and had roles in The Prize (1963), MajorDundee (1965), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), The Cincinnati Kid (1965) and...
officer based loosely on George Armstrong Custer, in Sam Peckinpah's MajorDundee (1965), but his scene was deleted from the final cut. He also appeared...
had another excellent supporting role as a one-armed Indian tracker in MajorDundee (1965), directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Charlton Heston. At Fox...
One-Eyed Jacks (1961, with Marlon Brando), Dr. Strangelove (1964), MajorDundee (1965, with Charlton Heston), the remake of Stagecoach (1966; Pickens...
then went to Hollywood to support Charlton Heston in Sam Peckinpah's MajorDundee (1965), as an Irish immigrant who became a Confederate cavalryman during...
States Air Force. He later joined Sam Peckinpah's stock company in 1965's MajorDundee, playing a professional horse thief. He also appeared in The Wild Bunch...
he worked in Peckinpah's early films Ride the High Country (1962) and MajorDundee (1965) and resulted in two of his most famous film roles. In the 1969...
friends and subsequently worked together on several films, including MajorDundee, Soylent Green, and Two-Minute Warning. He voiced Lucius Fox in several...
Dundee (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Dèagh) is the fourth-largest city in Scotland with a population of around 150,000 people. It is situated on the north bank...
Country as Jimmy Hammond 1965 Those Calloways as Ollie Gibbons 1965 MajorDundee as Jimmy Lee Benteen 1965 Once a Thief as James Arthur Sargatanas, Walter's...
also noticed that the plot bears a number of similarities to the later MajorDundee, directed by Sam Peckinpah in 1965, notably the journey leading up to...
starring David McLean. His first film work was the 1965 Sam Peckinpah film MajorDundee. He also worked on Ice Station Zebra, and, with his wife R. M. Fink,...
Peckinpah referenced the aftermath of the massacre and the funeral scene in MajorDundee (1965), and according to a 1974 review by Jay Cocks, Peckinpah's Bring...
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