Notes

Unfortunately, space does not permit a complete itemization of all the information sources drawn upon for this book. The following is a brief summary of only the most important ones.

Prologue

Sources for the description of The Wild Bunch previews in Kansas City and the Bahamas include production files from the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews conducted by the author with Lou Lombardo, Phil Feldman, and Roger Ebert; “Sam Peckinpah Breaks a Bottle” by Chris Hodenfield, Rolling Stone, May 31, 1971; “Man Was a Killer Long Before He Served a God” by Aljean Harmetz, The New York Times, August 31, 1969; “Peckinpah Gets Nonviolent (Off-screen)” by Jeff Milan, Los Angeles Times, May 21, 1972; Daily Variety, May 7, 1969.

Sources for comments on Peckinpah's importance as an American filmmaker include interviews conducted by the author with Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, Gill Dennis, and Ken Kesey; “Sam Peckinpah: No Bleeding Heart” by Kathleen Murphy, Film Comment, 1985; “Sam Peckinpah Going to Mexico” by Paul Schrader, Cinema, 5, no. 3, 1969; a review of Straw Dogs by Stephen Farber, Cinema, 1971; “Peckinpah's Progress: From Blood and Killing in the Old West to Siege and Rape in Rural Cornwall,” by Dan Yergin, The New York Times Magazine, October 31, 1971.

Chapter One

Sources for the history of the Peckinpah and Church families and Sam Peckinpah's childhood include the letters and diaries of Louise and Denver Church, David and Fern Peckinpah, Sam and Fern Lea Peckinpah; research materials and correspondence in the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews that the author conducted with Denver Peckinpah, Bob Peckinpah, Fern Lea Peter, Susan Peckinpah, Kristen Peckinpah, David Peckinpah, Betty Peckinpah, Camille Fielding, Joe Bernhard, Don Levy, Doris Roullard, Earlene Heafey, Tom Mullins, Marie Selland, Walter Harpain, and Ed Klippert; “Playboy Interview: Sam Peckinpah,” by William Murray, Playboy, 19, no. 8, August 1972.

For Peckinpah's years at San Rafael Military Academy the sources include interviews conducted by the author with John Breed, Fern Lea Peter, Marie Selland, and the letters and diaries of Fern and David Peckinpah.

For Peckinpah's years in the Marine Corps, the sources include the diaries and letters of Fern, David, and Sam Peckinpah; interviews the author conducted with Denver Peckinpah, Fern Lea Peter, Susan Peckinpah, Craig Carter, James Weddle, Leo Cardarelli, Mike Fitzgerald, Mike Zownir, Tom Dowlearn, and Marie Selland; “What Price Violence,” by P. F. Kluge, Life, August 11, 1972; “Sam Peckinpah: Hawk of American Directors,” by Joyce Haber, Los Angeles Times, 1972.

Chapter Two

Sources for Peckinpah's years at Fresno State College include the letters and diaries of David, Fern, and Sam Peckinpah; the Cal State Fresno University Archives; interviews that the author conducted with Denver Peckinpah, Fern Lea Peter, Marie Selland, Susan Peckinpah, Marian Dysinger, Vern Selland, Howard Campbell, Dick Lewis, George Zenovich, Dave Parker, William Walsh, Wanda Dove, Jim Baker, Merlyn Burris, and Don Levy. “Playboy Interview: Sam Peckinpah,” by William Murray, Playboy, 19, no. 8, August 1972; “The Wild Bunch in New York,” by John Bryson, New York magazine, August 19, 1974.

For Peckinpah's years at USC and the Huntington Park Civic Theater the sources include the letters and diaries of Fern, David, and Sam Peckinpah, and Marie Selland; interviews that the author conducted with Fern Lea Peter, Marie Selland, Don Levy, George Pappas, Rory Guy, Marvin Kaplan, Adele Cook, Don Stoutenborough, Lola Owensby, and Nanette Flynn; an interview conducted by Paul Seydor with James Butler.

For Peckinpah's years at KLAC-TV, the sources include the letters of Sam Peckinpah and Marie Selland; interviews conducted by the author with Marie Selland, Rudy Behlmer, Jerry Tamblyn, Don Forbes, Jim Hobson, Jim Baker, John Langdon, Don Levy, William C. White, Don Stoutenborough, Walter Peter, Denver Peckinpah; an interview conducted by Paul Seydor with James Butler.

Chapter Three

Sources for the section on the loss of Dunlap's Ranch include the diaries and letters of Denver and Louise Church; interviews conducted by the author with Ed Klippert, Susan Peckinpah, Fern Lea Peter, Marie Selland; an interview with Sam Peckinpah conducted by John Bryson in 1972.

Sources for the section on Peckinpah's years at Allied Artists include the letters of Sam Peckinpah and Marie Selland; interviews conducted by the author with Marie Selland, Fern Lea Peter, and Charles Marquis Warren; Don Siegel's eulogy at the Memorial Service for Sam Peckinpah in January of 1985; “Shoot! Sam Peckinpah Talks to John Cutts,” Films and Filmmaking, 16, no. 1, October 1969.

Sources for life at the Quonset hut include interviews conducted by the author with Marie Selland, Kristen Peckinpah, Walter and Fern Lea Peter, Jeanette Gariss, Nancy Galloway, Frank Kowalski, Rudy Behlmer, John Langdon, and George Zenovich.

Sources for Peckinpah's early years as a television writer and director include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews that the author conducted with Marie Selland, Nancy Galloway, Charles Marquis Warren, Adele Cook, Gay Hayden, Michael Ansara, John Lupton, Jules Levy, Arthur Gardner, Arnold Laven, Joe Mazzuca, Robert Heverly, Chuck Connors, Don Levy, Jack Curtis, and Mike Klein; “Shoot! Sam Peckinpah Talks to John Cutts,” Films and Filmmaking, 16, no. 1, October 1969; “Playboy Interview: Sam Peckinpah,” by William Murray, Playboy, 19, no. 8, August 1972.

Sources for the section on life at the Malibu Colony include interviews conducted by the author with Marie Selland, Kristen and Melissa Peckinpah, Walter and Fern Lea Peter, Frank Kowalski, Robert Culp, Brian Keith, Paul Stader, Norman Powell, Nancy Galloway, and Denver Peckinpah.

Chapter Four

Sources for Peckinpah's years as a writer-director for “The Rifleman” and “The Westerner” include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews conducted by the author with Jules Levy, Arthur Gardner, Arnold Laven, Frank Baur, Brian Keith, David Levy, Jack Curtis, Robert Heverly, Norman Powell, Jim Silke, and L. Q. Jones; Sam Peckinpah's interview before an audience at the Seattle Film Society on July 19, 1978; “Talking with Peckinpah” by Richard Whitehall, Sight and Sound, 38, no. 4, Autumn 1969.

Sources for the section on the disintegration of Peckinpah's marriage to Marie Selland include the letters and diaries of David, Fern, and Sam Peckinpah, interviews that the author conducted with Marie Selland, Fern Lea and Walter Peter, Kristen, and Melissa Peckinpah, Brian Keith, Robert Heverly, Joe Bernhard, Bob Peckinpah, Chalo Gonzalez, Joie Gould; “What Price Violence,” by P. F. Kluge, Life, August 11, 1972.

Sources for the section on Deadly Companions and Ride the High Country include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews that the author conducted with Brian Keith, Maureen O'Hara, Charles FitzSimons, Gay Hayden, Mariette Hartley, Hal Polaire, L. Q. Jones, R. G. Armstrong, Peter McCrea, Cleo Anton, James Drury; “Sam Peckinpah's West,” a documentary produced by Joel Reisner for KPFK radio; “Playboy Interview: Sam Peckinpah,” by William Murray, Playboy, 19, no. 8, August 1972; “Talking with Peckinpah” by Richard Whitehall, Sight and Sound, 38, no. 4, Autumn 1969; “Sam Peckinpah Going to Mexico,” by Paul Schrader, Cinema, 5, No. 3, 1970.

Chapter Five

Sources for the section on Peckinpah's years at the Bird View house include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews that the author conducted with Walter and Fern Lea Peter, Jim and Lyn Silke, Max Evans, Begonia Palacios, Kristen, and Melissa Peckinpah, Joe Bernhard, and Suzanne Peter.

Sources for the making of Major Dundee include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews that the author conducted with Charlton Heston, John Veitch, John Dutton, Jim Silke, Oscar Saul, R. G. Armstrong, James Coburn, Ben Johnson, L. Q. Jones, Gordon Stulberg, Gordon Dawson, Senta Berger, Forrest Wood, Whitey Hughes, Hal Needham, Begonia Palacios, and Howard Kunin; The Actor's Life: Journals 1956–1976 by Charlton Heston; “Sam Peckinpah's West,” a documentary produced by Joel Reisner for KPFK radio; “Talking with Peckinpah” by Richard Whitehall, Sight and Sound, 38, no. 4, Autumn 1969; “Peckinpah's Return,” by Stephen Farber, Film Quarterly, 23, no. 1, Fall 1969.

Sources for the making of The Cincinnati Kid include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews conducted by the author with Martin Ransohoff, John Calley, Ring Lardner, Jr., Jim Silke, L. Q. Jones, Philip Lathrop, E. Jack Neuman, Austen Jewell, Robert Schiller, and John Veitch.

Chapter Six

Sources for Peckinpah's years at Broad Beach include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews conducted by the author with Martin Baum, Elliot Silverstein, Reza Badiyi, L. Q. Jones, Begonia Palacios, Kristen, Melissa, and Mathew Peckinpah, Jim and Lyn Silke, Walter and Fern Lea Peter, Marie Selland, and Norman Powell.

Sources for the making of Noon Wine, That Lady Is My Wife, and Villa Rides! include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews that the author conducted with Daniel Melnick, Reza Badiyi, Jason Robards, Harry Sherman, Clair McCoy, Camille Fielding, Susan Peckinpah, Jeannot Szwarc, Begonia Palacios, and James Coburn; “Sam Peckinpah's West," a documentary produced by Joel Reisner for KPFK radio.

Sources for the breakup of Peckinpah's marriage to Begonia Palacios include interviews that the author conducted with Begonia Palacios, Walter and Fern Lea Peter, Chalo Gonzalez, Kristen, Melissa, and Mathew Peckinpah, Max Evans, Jim and Lyn Silke, Robert Schiller, Phil Feldman, and Ken Hyman.

Chapter Seven

Sources include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews that the author conducted with Ken Hyman, Phil Feldman, Jim Silke, Gay Hayden, Jaime Sanchez, Ben Johnson, Teddy Oates, L. Q. Jones, Bo Hopkins, Jorge Russek, Alfonso Arau, Chalo Gonzalez, Gordon Dawson, Howard Kazanjian, Rudi Fehr, Lou Lombardo, Cliff Coleman, James Dickey, Fred Gammon, Helen Martin, Paul Harper, Gill Dennis, Camille Fielding, Ann Godoff, Martin Scorsese, John Milius, Alex Cox, Ron Shelton, Robert Schiller, and Kip Dellinger; an interview that Paul Seydor conducted with Jerry Fielding in 1977; “Playboy Interview: Sam Peckinpah,” by William Murray, Playboy, 19, no. 8, August 1972; “Sam Peckinpah Breaks a Bottle” by Chris Hodenfield, Rolling Stone, May 31, 1971; “Man Was a Killer Long Before He Served a God” by Aljean Harmetz, The New York Times, August 31, 1969; “Peckinpah's Progress: From Blood and Killing in the Old West to Siege and Rape in Rural Cornwall,” by Dan Yergin, The New York Times Magazine, October 31, 1971; “Peckinpah's Return,” by Stephen Farber, Film Quarterly, 23, no. 1, Fall 1969; “Sam Peckinpah Going to Mexico,” by Paul Schrader, Cinema, 5, no. 3, 1970; “Sam Peckinpah's West,” a documentary produced by Joel Reisner for KPFK radio; Sam Peckinpah's interview before an audience at the Seattle Film Society on July 19, 1978.

Chapter Eight

Sources for Peckinpah's years at Warner Bros. and the making of The Ballad of Cable Hogue include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews that the author conducted with Nancy Galloway, Gay Hayden, Terra Waters, Frank Kowalski, Gill Dennis, Jim Silke, Jason Robards, John Crawford, Edmund Penney, Bobby Visciglia, L. Q. Jones, Gordon Dawson, Gary Weis, Stella Stevens, Lou Lombardo, and Walter Peter.

Sources for the making of Straw Dogs include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews that the author conducted with James Dickey, John Milius, Daniel Melnick, Martin Baum, Joe Bernhard, Gill Dennis, Walter Kelley, Katy Haber, James Swann, Joie Gould, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, Del Henney, Ken Hutchison, Kristen Peckinpah, Tony Lawson, Paul Davies, Roger Spottiswoode, Garth Craven; “Playboy Interview: Sam Peckinpah,” by William Murray, Playboy, 19, no. 8, August 1972; “The Ballet of Death in Sam Peckinpah,” by Ray Loynd, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, April 11, 1974; an interview with Peckinpah conducted by F. Anthony Macklin in 1975; “Peckinpah's Progress: From Blood and Killing in the Old West to Siege and Rape in Rural Cornwall,” by Dan Yergin, The New York Times Magazine, October 31, 1971; Cahiers du Cinéma, 1982; Dustin Hoffman by Jeff Lenburg, St. Martin's Press, 1983.

Sources for the making of Junior Bonner and The Getaway include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews that the author conducted with Jeb Rosebrook, Martin Baum, Katy Haber, Joie Gould, Frank Baur, James Pratt, Camille Fielding, Chalo Gonzalez, Bobby Visciglia, Robert Schiller, Kip Dellinger, Gordon Dawson, Jim Silke, David Foster, Ben Johnson, Bo Hopkins, Mike Klein, Roger Spottiswoode, and Grover Lewis.

Chapter Nine

Sources include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews that the author conducted with Kris Kristofferson, Joie Gould, Katy Haber, Chalo Gonzalez, Gordon Dawson, Fern Lea Peter, Camille Fielding, Bobby Visciglia, Kip Dellinger, Frank Kowalski, James Coburn, Walter Kelley, Roger Spottiswoode, Garth Craven, Jim Silke, R. G. Armstrong, L. Q. Jones, Jorge Russek, Dan Melnick, Paul Harper, Lindsley Parsons, Lyn Silke, Mike Klein, Martin Scorsese, David Peckinpah, Jim Hamilton, and Grover Lewis; interviews that Paul Seydor conducted with Gordon Carroll, Bob Wolfe, and Roger Spottiswoode in 1977; an interview given by Peckinpah before an audience at the San Francisco Film Festival in 1974; Encounters with Filmmakers: Eight Career Studies, by Jon Tuska, Greenwood Press, 1991; “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid,” by Jan Aghed, Sight and Sound, 42, no. 2, Spring 1973; “The Wild Bunch in New York,” by John Bryson, New York magazine, August 19, 1974.

Chapter Ten

Sources for the making of Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and The Killer Elite include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews that the author conducted with Gordon Dawson, Chalo Gonzalez, Jorge Russek, Martin Baum, Frank Kowalski, Walter Kelley, Garth Craven, Katy Haber, Kris Kristofferson, Don Levy, Roger Ebert, Paul Seydor, Kip Dellinger, Garner Simmons, Ron Wright, and Whitey Hughes.

Sources for Peckinpah's altercations at the AFI tribute to James Cagney and the Los Angeles International Airport, and his near-drowning in the pool of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews that the author conducted with Ray Bradbury, Jim and Lyn Silke, Jason Robards, Bobby Visciglia, Katy Haber, and Ron Wright.

Sources for the making of Cross of Iron and Convoy include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews that the author conducted with Katy Haber, Ron Wright, Frank Kowalski, Walter Kelley, Jim Hamilton, Kip Dellinger, James Coburn, David Warner, Senta Berger, Murray Jordan, Bobby Visciglia, Kristen, Melissa, and Mathew Peckinpah, Tony Lawson, Steven Gaydos, Kris Kristofferson, Michael Deeley, Whitey Hughes, and Garth Craven.

Sources for Peckinpah's Montana years include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews that the author conducted with Joe Swindlehurst, Kristen and Mathew Peckinpah, Gill Dennis, Ron Wright, Kip Dellinger, David Peckinpah, and Jim Silke.

Chapter Eleven

Sources for Peckinpah's life in Malibu in the 1980s include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews that the author conducted with Mathew, Kristen, and Melissa Peckinpah, Ted Post, Martin Baum, Jeb Rosebrook, Garner Simmons, Gill Dennis, Walter Kelley, Fern Lea and Walter Peter, L. Q. Jones, Don Hyde, and Carol O'Connor.

Sources for the making of The Osterman Weekend and the Julian Lennon rock videos include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews that the author conducted with Alan Sharp, Kristen Peckinpah, Gill Dennis, Walter Kelley, Jim Hamilton, Lou Lombardo, David Rawlins, Martin Lewis, and Martin Baum.

Sources for Peckinpah's last days, his death, and its aftermath include the Sam Peckinpah Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library; interviews that the author conducted with Carol O'Connor, Jim and Lyn Silke, Kristen, Melissa, and Mathew Peckinpah, Fern Lea and Walter Peter, Gill Dennis, Garner Simmons, Bobby Visciglia, Walter Kelley, Joie Gould, and the tape-recording of the memorial service held for Peckinpah at the Directors Guild Theater on Sunset Boulevard.