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Posted by Daniel Aveline (Member # 1714) on January 20, 2010, 02:44 PM:

Apart from junior bonner,was there ever a film of sam peckinpah
released as an abridged feature or full lenght(oh I was about to forget that straw dogs exists on S8).Kind Regards

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on January 20, 2010, 03:40 PM:

I believe that marketing Films or some other German film company released at least an abridged version of his World War 2 film "Cross of Iron" (a film from the german perspective of the war).

Posted by Keith Ashfield (Member # 741) on January 20, 2010, 04:55 PM:

"Major Dundee" was released as a 400ft digest and also a 200ft "Making of" short about the work of the stuntmen on the picture.

Posted by Mark Howard (Member # 870) on January 20, 2010, 05:49 PM:

The making of Major Dundee, called Riding For a Fall, is an excellent short and well worth hunting down.

Posted by Keith Ashfield (Member # 741) on January 20, 2010, 06:11 PM:

That's the one Mark. Couldn't think of the title for that one.

Posted by Jose Artiles (Member # 471) on January 20, 2010, 10:40 PM:

In Spain the brand "jmg films" released as full length feature "junior bonner" and "the getaway" the company makes about 100 prints on dreades eastmant and about 50 on agfa before they closed

Posted by Michael Beyer (Member # 1143) on January 21, 2010, 01:43 AM:

In Germany Sam Peckinpah's "Convoy" was released by UFA as a 3x 400ft digest. The cuts of this version are very good.

Regards,
Michael

Posted by Mark Howard (Member # 870) on January 21, 2010, 04:27 AM:

Convoy - that's a film I'd love to find on super 8.

Posted by Michael Beyer (Member # 1143) on January 21, 2010, 04:45 AM:

Mark,
I would like to have an full length print (in scope). But it was never released on Super 8. [Frown]

The UFA-Version is letterboxed.

Posted by Joerg Polzfusz (Member # 602) on January 21, 2010, 05:01 AM:

Hi,

the Super8-version of "straw dogs" can even be found on this DVD (unfortunately only in its telecined form):
http://www.libri.de/shop/action/productDetails/6611466/sam_peckinpah_straw_dogs_wer_gewalt_saet_uncut.html

This DVD has got a "twenty-minute excerpt from Mike Siegel’s documentary Passion & Poetry- The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah and the original featurette "Riding for a Fall" in black-and-white 16mm and color Super-8 options.":
http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/major-dundee-sam-peckinpah-charlton-heston/

According to this page UFA's digest of "Convoy" was made by UFA and hence is not just a "Ken film with UFA-logo and German soundtrack":
http://www.super-8-hobby.de/rezent347.htm

Marketing's 3*110m Super8-version of "the iron cross" is mentioned here as released in 1980:
http://www.ofdb.de/view.php?page=fassung&fid=1168&vid=81260

Wasn't "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid" also available as a digest?

Jörg

Posted by Michael Beyer (Member # 1143) on January 22, 2010, 02:52 AM:

Hi Hi, I wrote this Convoy-review for Robert [Big Grin]

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