Best line comes from the tortured Keith character who says:
"You don't know me well enough to hate me that much. Hating's a subject I know a little something about. You better be careful it don't bite you back. I know somebody spent five years looking for a man he hated. Hate and wanting revenge was all that kept him alive. He spent all them years tracking that other man down. When he caught up with him was the worst day in his life. He'd get his revenge, all right. Then he'd lose the one thing he'd had to live for."Early Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country) though you would hardly know because he had very little control over the finished product.
Brian Keith was a darn good actor. Did you ever see him in Peckinpah’s TV show, THE WESTERNER? It reran on cable a while ago. I wrote a post about it earlier this year:
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Elgin, It appears Keith secured The Deadly Companions directing job for Peckinpah because both had just finished working on The Westernerer and were amiable. No, I haven't watch the show but intend to sooner than later. Enjoy Bloody Sam's work even when he's not scripting ways to eliminate his entire cast.
ReplyDeleteI believe I saw this, or part of it. The plot sounds very familiar. I did like Brian Keith as an actor
ReplyDeleteBrian Keith could play both the lead and character roles with equal perfection. Excellent actor. Need to check out The Westerner next that Elgin mentioned.
ReplyDeleteBrian Keith was a journeyman actor to me. Didn't care for some of his roles, but the Westerns, I did. I'd travel another mile to watch Maureen O'Hara bathe in a creek or any other bath.
ReplyDeleteDavid – That is interesting that Brian Keith got Peckinpah on the project. I thought O’Hara would be calling the shots, since her brother was producing the picture. But then Keith was emerging as a big star, and he and O’Hara did THE PARENT TRAP for Disney that same year, 1961.
ReplyDeleteOscar, She's quite the beauty and backed by mad acting skills.
ReplyDeleteElgin, And it would seem from my (limited) research that O'Hara came to dislike Peckinpah which is par for the course for a number of actors on his films.