Major Dundee
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| Directed by | Sam Peckinpah |
| Produced by | Jerry Bresler |
| Screenplay by |
Harry Julian Fink Sam Peckinpah Oscar Saul |
| Story by | Harry Julian Fink |
| Starring |
Charlton Heston Richard Harris Jim Hutton James Coburn |
| Music by |
Daniele Amfitheatrof Christopher Caliendo (2005) |
| Cinematography | Sam Leavitt |
| Edited by | Howard Kunin William A. Lyon Donald W. Starling |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures Corporation |
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123 minutes (theatrical) 136 minutes (restored) 152 minutes (director's cut) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3.8 million |
| Box office | $2,500,000 (rentals) |
Major Dundee is a 1965 Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, and James Coburn. Written by Harry Julian Fink, the film is about a Union cavalry officer who leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners, and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding United States bases in Texas.Major Dundee was filmed in various locations in Mexico. The movie was filmed in Eastman Color by Pathécolor, print by Technicolor.
During the American Civil War, Union cavalry officer Major Amos Dundee (Charlton Heston) has been relieved of his command for an unspecified tactical error at the Battle of Gettysburg (it is implied that he showed too much initiative) and sent to head a prisoner-of-war camp in the New Mexico Territory. After a family of ranchers and a relief column of cavalry are massacred by an Apache war chief named Sierra Charriba (Michael Pate), Dundee seizes the opportunity for glory, raising his own private army of Union troops (black and white), Confederate prisoners led by his former friend and rival from their days at West Point, Captain Tyreen (Richard Harris), several Indian scouts, and a gang of civilian mercenaries to illegally pursue Charriba into Mexico. Tyreen bears a grudge against Dundee. Before the war, Dundee cast the deciding vote in Tyreen's court-martial from the U.S. Army for participating in a duel. However, having given his word of honor, the chivalrous Tyreen binds himself and his men to serve loyally, but only until Charriba has been dispatched.
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