THE KILLER ELITE (BLU-RAY)

“Sam Peckinpah knows how to make movies…This director thinks he can do anything he wants, and he is nearly right.”
?Richard Eder, The New York Times

“Peckinpah’s most apparently straightforward action film since The Getaway…contemplates the old themes of betrayal, trust, and humiliation…Unmistakable Peckinpah.”
?Time Out London

Renegade director Sam Peckinpah’s The Killer Elite (1975) offers a gorgeously San Francisco-based excursion into the dark world of contract assassins, the CIA, martial arts, and ever more obscure notions of honor among hit men, with James Caan and Robert Duvall the leading exemplars thereof. Shot by the terrific Philip Lathrop, co-edited by the exemplary Monte Hellman, and with music by sine qua non composer Jerry Fielding (his last, hugely poignant score with long-time partner Peckinpah is available on this Twilight Time release as an isolated track), this is an echt-1970s film, crammed with anger, betrayal, and the occasional soupcon of heart-wrenching poetry.

ALSO INCLUDING:

Noon Wine (1966), the Sam Peckinpah-directed television version of Katherine Anne Porter’s novella, starring Jason Robards, Olivia de Havilland, and Theodore Bikel, available here for the first time on home video.

LANGUAGE: English
VIDEO: 1080p High Definition / 2.35:1
AUDIO: English 1.0 DTS-HD MA
SUBTITLES: English SDH
1975 / Color
123 MINUTES
RATED: R
REGION FREE

THE KILLER ELITE
Starring: James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill, Gig Young, Burt Young, Bo Hopkins, Mako

Special Features: Isolated Score Track / Audio Commentary with Film Historians Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons, and Nick Redman / Passion and Poetry: Sam's Killer Elite / Promoting The Killer Elite / TV and Radio Spots / Original Theatrical Trailer

NOON WINE
Starring: Olivia de Haviland, James Robards, Theodore Bikel, Per Oscarsson

Special Features: Audio Commentary with Film Historians Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons, and Nick Redman

Limited Edition of 3,000 Units