“Major Dundee” Screens at the 2018 Summer KCET Cinema Series in Honor of James Coburn Film Night

Directed by Sam Peckinpah, the motion picture is looselybased on an actualincident during the American Civil War. Union Army Major Amos Dundee leads a contingent of regular Union troops, Confederate prisoners and Indian scouts on an illegal~expedition into Mexico to track down and destroy a bandof Apaches that has been raiding the New Mexico Territory. This special presentation at the KCET Cinema Series is a 2013 digital restoration of the original 1965 film, starring Charlton Heston as Major Dundee, James Coburn as Dundee’s scout Samuel Potts, and~Richard Harris as Captain Tyreen, a Confederate POW.
Q&A with Michael Schlesinger prior to screening.