"The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpaw"

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This paper shows how David Weddle has fashioned a tour-de-force biography of one of Hollywood's most controversial directors : Sam Peckinpaw, a man praised as a genius and just as equally reviled by his peers. Through his book, "If They Move...Kill 'Em" : The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpaw", the paper shows us how Weddle manages to connect the dots, and in so doing bridges the professional life of an artistic rebel and the personal hell an independent spirit sometimes faces in Hollywood .

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"Sam Peckinpaw was never a man to be trifled with. From his early years in the farm regions of Fresno California where he grew up, to his later skirmishes with the Hollywood establishment, Sam -- or Sammy D as he was known to relatives and family -- seemed to be controlled by inner and often tumultuous forces common to the prestigious Peckinpaw family; the men, all hearty outdoorsmen, who little understood Sam's poetic side, his strong desire for artistic expression."

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