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- in 1950s he worked as assistant to action picture director Don Siegel and wrote scripts for television westerns
- After The Wild Bunch (1969) which contained what one critic called “the bloodiest massacre in screen history,” he was known as “Bloody Sam” and criticized for glorifying violence. His slow motion aestheticizes violence into surrealistic patterns of color
- Straw Dogs (1971) contained a disturbing rape scene and was called a “fascist films” by some critics
- most of his work was revisionist westerns set in the early twentieth century that expressed his romantic conservative yearning for a simpler time: The Wild Bunch (1969), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) Bring Me the
- a few films set in contemporary world explored violence in modern society: Straw Dogs (1971), The Getaway (1972)