Glad to revisit this on a beautiful IB Technicolor print (a 1971 original) tonight, introduced by George Pelecanos as part of his series at AFI Silver. His intro included quotes from Peckinpah’s notorious Playboy interview about the film, and lemme just say — woof! I will also give him props for calling out Quentin Tarantino’s bullshit take on the rape scene (from his Video Archives podcast).
This is a complicated film, and all of the discussions around me as I…