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¿Alguien sabe si es verdad eso de que Peckinpah empezó a rodar The Cincinnatti Kid y que por discrepancias con los productores se fue?
En este link la historia está resumida, pero es muy cierto que comenzó a rodar El rey del juego y lo despidieron a los pocos días, sustituyéndolo Norman Jewison, que, reconozcámoslo, no lo hizo mal.
Éste es el extracto:
" The production of Peckinpah's third feature, Major Dundee (1965), marks the beginning of his volatile relations with producers and distributors. Set during the end of the civil war, the film's protagonist Dundee (Charlton Heston) is an officer in charge of a Federal prison where Confederate soldiers are held. Although Dundee is short of men, he is determined to wipe out a group of marauding "Indians" who have kidnapped three little boys. Major Dundee is a jagged but dynamic foray into potent human extremes but it is difficult to ascertain if its unevenness is due to studio intervention or Peckinpah having lost control of his project. Sensing that the film was too long and convoluted for a commercial audience, Columbia made numerous cuts before it was released. Enraged, Peckinpah claimed that in cutting a large amount of the last third of the film they had rendered his film unintelligible. Subsequently, what occurred was the first of many public outbursts that continued throughout Peckinpah's working history. He was fired from his next film, The Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison, 1965), and blacklisted without work for three years. (8) But during this period he was offered a chance to direct Noon Wine (1966), an ABC television special adapted from Katherine Ann Porter's novella. Noon Wine earned award nominations and high praise ...".

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