Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah & All Our Friends

Max Evans, Robert Nott

Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah & All Our Friends
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Country
United States
Published
15 April 2023
Pages
304
ISBN
9780826365026

Goin’ Crazy with Sam Peckinpah & All Our Friends

Max Evans, Robert Nott

Winner of the 2015 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Biography--Other

Almost as famous for the legendary excesses of his personal life as for his films, 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.

Evans's stories--most previously unpublished--provide a uniquely intimate look at Peckinpah, their famous friends (including Lee Marvin, Brian Keith, Joel McCrea, and James Coburn), and the business of Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s.

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