Introduction -- The Madman of Film and His Legacy -- Everybody Wanted to Meet Sam Peckinpah Until They Met Him -- The Night I Tried to Kill Sam Peckinpah -- Bring Me the Head of Max Evans -- Did You Hear the Phone? -- How Lee Marvin Won His Oscar -- The Westerner -- This Part Has Already Been Cast -- The Day Clark Gable Performed The One-Eyed Sky -- The Green -- The Brothers Kowalski -- Charles Champlin, Sam, and The Wild Bunch -- An Interlude with Katy Haber -- A Pirate Guarding His Gold: L.Q. Jones -- Junior Bonner -- Pat Garrett, James Coburn, and the Taos Talking Pictures Festival -- Why Bob Boles Never became a Movie Star -- Beverly Hills Max -- Two Guys, Two Girls, and Me in the Middle -- Crossing the Iron -- 8 1/2 Meets Ride the High Country -- This Play Was Not Meant to Be a Comedy -- Hi Lo to Hollywood -- The Last Heinekin.
Summary:
Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984) cemented his reputation as one of the great American directors with movies such as The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Max Evans, one of Peckinpah's best friends, experienced the director's mercurial character and personal demons firsthand. In this enthralling memoir we follow Evans and Peckinpah through conversations in bars, family gatherings, binges on drugs and alcohol, struggles with film producers and executives, and Peckinpah's abusive behavior--sometimes directed at Evans himself.
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