This director Sam Peckinpah worked with me as dialogue director on one or two films—he was on Wichita and he always said he admired my style on Wichita. He was very anxious to become a director and by accident one day I was downtown in Los Angeles and I had nothing to do and I saw Ride the High Country [Guns in the Afternoon]—it was just great. It was John Ford when John Ford was good. 10-15 years ago. It was the first honest western I'd seen in years and years and years. I'm very anxious to see Major Dundee.
Jacques Tourneur