0826333257 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as I knew them; reminiscences of John P. Meadows. Meadows, John P. Ed. by John P. Wilson. U. of New Mexico Press 2004 192 pages $21.95 Hardcover F786...

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When a director has been as condemned and lionized as Sam Peckinpah has, it’s inevitable that the legend obscures the work. So rather than add to the heap of writing that already exists about Peckinpah’s balletic violence, or about the stunted career and mangled movies...

When a director has been as condemned and lionized as Sam Peckinpah has, it’s inevitable that the legend obscures the work. So rather than add to the heap of writing that already exists about Peckinpah’s balletic violence, or about the stunted career and mangled...

Sam Peckinpah thinks the Old West offered men the last unambiguous set of values and is fascinated by attempts to hold fast to them in a world where they no longer mean anything. In his disjointed, confused and generally inept Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, he makes just two choices available to a pair of old friends: go down before the encroaching new order, or go to work for it at the cost of those unambiguous values. He sympathizes with Pat Garrett's instinct for survival in throwing in with the g...