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Major Dundee (re-release)
Sony Pictures Repertory

Major Dundee (re-release) reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 62 Metascore out of 100
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for violence and some sensuality

Starring Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn, Michael Anderson Jr., Senta Berger, Mario Adorf, and Brock Peters

In this re-release of Sam Peckinpah's 1965 film, a Union officer is assigned the task of assembling a hunting party after a New Mexico settlement is massacred by a band of renegade Apaches. But with the Civil War still raging, he must fill out his ranks with Confederate prisoners, freed slaves, deserters and criminals. As the mission progresses, he must guard against not only both his quarry and his recruits, but his own personal demons as well. (Sony Pictures Repertory)


GENRE(S): Action  |  Adventure  |  Classic  |  Western  
WRITTEN BY: Harry Julian Fink (also story)
Sam Peckinpah
Oscar Saul
 
DIRECTED BY: Sam Peckinpah  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: September 20, 2005 
Video: September 15, 1994 
Theatrical: April 8, 2005 
RUNNING TIME: 136 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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80
Washington Post Stephen Hunter
What's important is that Major Dundee, not a great movie but a great star-driven, big budget 1965 studio western, is back in all its fractured glory and confidence.
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75
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Expanded, Major Dundee is still a mess of great scenes sprinkled among some fairly monotonous action.
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75
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
If you want to see the missing link between John Wayne's squint and Clint Eastwood's sneer, look no further than Charlton Heston in Major Dundee.
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75
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
It's not a masterpiece, but its story of Civil War enemies banding together for battle against Indian warriors and French soldiers packs an occasional wallop.
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70
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
It's hard to imagine "The Wild Bunch" having the depth and grace it did without Peckinpah having this experience to draw on, and for that masterful film alone we're grateful to have Major Dundee back among the living again.
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70
Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
As flawed as it is, Major Dundee maintains its dignity in the face of the injustices that were done to it. Ripped-up and ragtag, it still holds its head high.
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63
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
The movie still isn't great, but it's an important remonstration to that oldest of all studio-system curses: the producer who thinks he's more creative than the director.
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60
TV Guide Staff (Not credited)
An offbeat and sometimes jumbled western adventure film. (Review of Original Release)
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58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
Sadly, it's still a plodding affair that's low on plausible character motivation and compelling action scenes, and it's still not much of a showcase for its star, Charlton Heston.
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50
Variety Todd McCarthy
More evident than ever the film is inherently a deeply flawed work that was far from fully realized in both script and shooting.
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50
Village Voice Michael Atkinson
What rescues Major Dundee in the end from its many conflicts and unresolved passions is Heston.
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50
Chicago Reader Dave Kehr
Keeps building to apocalyptic climaxes that never materialize. (Review of Original Release)
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What Our Users Said

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Anthony S. gave it a0:
Worst movie ever created. By the time it was over, I had aged three years and become completely impotent.

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