or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
Express Checkout with PayPhrase
What's this? | Create PayPhrase
More Buying Choices
32 used & new from $0.44

Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
Bloody Sam
 
See larger image
 
Tell the Publisher!
I’d like to read this book on Kindle

Don’t have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here.
 
  

Bloody Sam (Paperback)

~ (Author)
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Price: $16.95 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
Usually ships within 1 to 3 weeks.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

Ordering for Christmas? This item requires additional time to ship and will arrive after December 25. Need a last-minute gift? Send an Amazon.com Gift Card.

13 new from $10.10 19 used from $0.44

Formats

Amazon Price New from Used from
  Hardcover, November 14, 1991 -- $19.44 $0.67
  Paperback, January 24, 2006 $16.95 $10.10 $0.44

Frequently Bought Together

Bloody Sam + If They Move . . . Kill 'Em!: The Life and TImes of Sam Peckinpah + Peckinpah: A Portrait in Montage (Limelight)
Price For All Three: $43.37

Some of these items ship sooner than the others. Show details

  • This item: Bloody Sam by Marshall Fine

    Usually ships within 1 to 3 weeks.
    Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
    Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details

  • If They Move . . . Kill 'Em!: The Life and TImes of Sam Peckinpah by David Weddle

    In Stock.
    Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
    Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details

  • Peckinpah: A Portrait in Montage (Limelight) by Garner Simmons

    In Stock.
    Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
    Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details


Special Offers and Product Promotions


Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

If They Move . . . Kill 'Em!: The Life and TImes of Sam Peckinpah

If They Move . . . Kill 'Em!: The Life and TImes of Sam Peckinpah

by David Weddle
4.0 out of 5 stars (13)  $12.21
Peckinpah: A Portrait in Montage (Limelight)

Peckinpah: A Portrait in Montage (Limelight)

by Garner Simmons
5.0 out of 5 stars (3)  $14.21
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

DVD ~ Warren Oates
4.1 out of 5 stars (61)  $12.99
Major Dundee (The Extended Version)

Major Dundee (The Extended Version)

DVD ~ Charlton Heston
4.2 out of 5 stars (67)  $11.99
Sam Peckinpah's Legendary Westerns Collection (The Wild Bunch / Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid / Ride the High Country / The Ballad of Cable Hogue)

Sam Peckinpah's Legendary Westerns Collection (The Wild Bunch / Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid / Ride the High Country / The Ballad of Cable Hogue)

DVD ~ Sam Peckinpah
4.3 out of 5 stars (57)  $45.49
Explore similar items

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Best known for Ride the High Country , The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs , director Peckinpah (1925-1984) had a reputation for being difficult to work with, for making graphically violent films, for a brutish attitude toward women and, especially in later years, for alcoholism and drug abuse, which helped wreck his career and shorten his life. Much of the reputation is deserved, according to Fine, columnist for the Gannet newspapers, but, he argues, Peckinpah's best films are marked by "skill, artistry and vision"p. xiii and broke new cinematic ground. The author also maintains that despite the filmmaker's image as a "hard-drinking, hard-living maverick," Peckinpah was "a sensitive and poetic soul who tried to hide that side from the world."p. xiii The book supports these points, but the narrative is marred by blocks of meandering commentary from family, friends and colleagues of Peckinpah. In addition, Fine's own writing sometimes stoops to the juvenile: about the decreasing ability of Peckinpah's blood to coagulate, we're told, "During The Wild Bunch , that caused a serious pain in the ass: a raging case of bleeding hemorrhoids."p. 137 Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


From Library Journal

Peckinpah's films were widely criticized during the 1970s for excessive violence, but they seem almost tame compared to the atrocities portrayed today by his many successors. Syndicated columnist Fine has assembled a rather sad portrait of Peckinpah, who died in 1985 at age 59. Elaborating on old news, Fine portrays him as a hard-drinking, brawling maverick whose rude behavior earned him many enemies in and out of Hollywood. Behind-the-scenes shenanigans are discussed more than the actual films, conclusively showing that Peckinpah refused to compromise his filmmaking principles--or anything else. Perhaps best known for the slow-motion sequences of graphic violence in such films as Straw Dogs (1971) and The Wild Bunch (1969), Peckinpah pursued artistic goals which are better analyzed in previous studies, most notably Paul Seydor's Peckinpah: The Western Films ( LJ 2/1/80). Recommended for subject collections, and general readers hankering for sensationalism.
- Richard W. Grefrath, Univ. of Nevada Lib., Reno
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Miramax (January 25, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1401359728
  • ISBN-13: 978-1401359720
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #588,240 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

More About the Author

Marshall Fine
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Visit Amazon's Marshall Fine Page

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?


Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
 

Your tags: Add your first tag
 

Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store

If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store. Learn more

 

Customer Reviews

3 Reviews
5 star:
 (2)
4 star:    (0)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:
 (1)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.0 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Peckinpah Bio, August 23, 2007
By AK "Searcher" (LA, California, United States) - See all my reviews
I think this is the best Peckinpah bio. Yes, even better than the excellent "If they move, kill em". Why? First of all, this book gives MUCH better coverage of his non-western films. I happen to think that "The Getaway", "Killer Elite" "Garcia" "Cross of Iron" are great films. These films get very little coverage elsewhere, but our covered in depth here. I also think Fine has a better sense of the man. How drinking, drugs, fighting and chaotic relationships with women hurt him in the end, but were part of his personality, lifestyle and art. It also covers his political and religous beliefs better, showing them grounded in his anti-establishment views. The other bio gives good coverage on the westerns, and is excellent and in depth on "Wild Bunch", but I think this book gives the best view of the non westerns and the man himself. Great read - funny in many parts, and touching and sad.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
5.0 out of 5 stars Really good biography of the legendary director, September 1, 2009
By Chris "Chris906" (Biloxi, MS United States) - See all my reviews
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
'Bloody Sam' by Marshall Fine is a very solid book on the great but very self destructive director Sam Peckinpah. Fine has lots of first hand accounts of Sam Peckinpah and his controversial actions. He also has a pleasing writing style that makes the director come to life.

Fine does a good job in depicting the upbringing of Peckinpah in Fresno, California. But the real fun of the book is found when Peckinpah finds his calling as a director and writer. His jobs on the famous TV westerns such as 'The Rifleman' and 'Gunsmoke' are discussed. As is his first feature length film 'The Deadly Companions'. Film buffs will enjoy Fine's depictions of the making of Peckinpah's films such as: 'Ride the High Country', 'Major Dundee', 'The Wild Bunch', 'Ballad of Cable Hogue' 'Straw Dogs', 'The Getaway', 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid', and 'Cross of Iron' among others. Fine also tells about projects that Peckinpah never finished such as 'The Cincinnati Kid'. Fine also discusses the famous and very talented actors that worked on these films and their relationship with Peckinpah among them: Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Dustin Hoffman, William Holden, Warren Oates and the list could go on and on.

Peckinpah's personal foibles are also discussed by Fine and are not glazed over. The broken relationships he left in his wake and the daily struggles that he had with alcohol and drugs. His personal life was not a pretty picture much of the time and I believe Fine is fair about it. The reader will also be astounded about the pure joy that Peckinpah seemed to derive from constant arguments with his movie producers. Lesser Peckinpah films are also discussed such as the less than impressive 'Convoy; and the mediocre 'Osterman Weekend'.

If Peckinpah had taken care of himself and controlled himself better he could have made some truly interesting and relevant films into the '80s and '90s. I would have especially liked to see what he could have done with another Western.

This biography of a great director is Highly Recommended!
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Bloody Eyes, July 4, 2009
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
Just another bio that suffers from a lack of editing. M.F. likes to write and write and write and in the end we have a book that boils down to, so and so says he did this and so and so says he did that. It's wears you out.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Only search this product's reviews



Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
sam peckinpah 0 April 2009
See all discussions...  
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
   




Product Information from the Amapedia Community

Beta (What's this?)


Look for Similar Items by Category


Look for Similar Items by Subject

 

Feedback

If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us.
 Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
Is there any other feedback you would like to provide?

Your comments can help make our site better for everyone.


Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.