The Sam Peckinpah film so chaotic, it needed its own documentary just to explain what happened.
Testimony of the cast, the producers and other participants of the shootings of "The Osterman Weekend".
Direction
Peckinpah's final film dissected by those who survived it.
Editing
Redman weaves anecdotes into a tragedy of compromise.
Director
Jonathan Gaines
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peckinpah was reportedly so ill during production that he directed some scenes via phone from his hospital bed.
This captures the exact moment 1970s auteur cinema surrendered to 1980s blockbuster homogenization — Peckinpah as canary in the coal mine.
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