I heard that Peckinpah disowned this movie after the producers took control.
Does anybody know something about this?
p.s. I also heard that he tried to have his name removed from "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" (My source is Roger Ebert on the "Cinemania" CD)
He did at first, but what Peck (and his buddies L.Q. Jones, R.G. Armstrong, and James Coburn) really did with this movie was use it to promote his image as a Hollywood "bad-boy" who was always running into trouble with "The Man". Post-"Wild Bunch", he always promoted this film as a lost masterpiece taken away from him by the evil stuidio (however questionable that assertion may be), which helped make the Legends of Peckinpah and Major Dundee what they are today.
"Give thanks to God, Brighton, that when he made you a fool he gave you a fool's face."