James Coburn starred in many Westerns during his 45-year career, working with the likes of Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah and Richard Donner.

In a bit of name symmetry, the movie playing was the Sam Peckinpah feature Major Dundee (1965), starring Charlton Heston. 11. 20TH CENTURY FOX (RUDELY) SAID "NO" TO ACQUIRING THE AMERICAN RIGHTS.

How? “We’d better walk on water,” suggests an aide. Major Dundee is Charlton Heston, and the writers of this long-winded, quasi-Biblical western apparently had fun filling their script with ...

It is set during the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Major Amos Charles Dundee (Charlton Heston) leads a contentious troop of Army regulars along with a band of Confederate prisoners led ...

the disastrous western Major Dundee. But that was the least of it, as this documentary reveals how Dundee's star Charlton Heston charged Peckinpah with a sword after the director told him he was ...

The American Civil War was arguably one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the United States. Fought over slavery, it divided families and communities and, of course, the nation.

Before 2023 recedes too far in the past, conservatives should mark the centennial of the late Charlton ... Heston also saved director Sam Peckinpah’s bacon in completing the Western Major Dundee.

This was meant to be a Civil War Moby Dick with Charlton Heston as a crazed Ahab ... Ride the High Country, Major Dundee and The Ballad of Cable Hogue in September. Visit the official website ...

The film went on to be a major flop. While Spielberg licked his ... Now, Indiana Jones really is Harry Steele. That’s Charlton Heston’s character and in Secret of the Incas.

He drove everybody nuts," Jones said. That was evident during the production of “Major Dundee” with Charlton "Chuck" Heston. “Heston was using a real sabre for one scene," Jones said.

Charlton Heston, born John Charles Carter was one of the Hollywood stalwarts. He starred in over a hundred movies and made a name for himself both as an actor and as a political activist. Heston was ...