Major Dundee (The Extended Version Trailer)

Major Dundee - (Original Trailer)

A Union officer (Charlton Heston) leads Confederate prisoners against Apaches in Mexico in Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee (1965).

Major Dundee (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Open, I'm A Long Way From Gettysburg

Intense tones of racial hatred, subject matter that would have spoken to director and co-writer Sam Peckinpah, narration by Marvin Miller, and an introduction to Charlton Heston, the title character, and James Coburn as his scout, opening the generally-panned Major Dundee, 1965, also starring Richard Harris.

Major Dundee (1965) -- (Movie Clip) The Major Ain't No Lawyer

Now in Mexico, chasing the Apache and short on supplies, Charlton Heston (title character) with Graham (Jim Hutton) on artillery and scout Sam (James Coburn), enters a village loosely occupied by French imperial troops, where Senta Berger (as Teresa) makes her first appearance, and Tyreen (Richard Harris), head of the consrcripted Confederate troops, takes a different approach, in Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, 1965.

Major Dundee (1965) -- (Movie Clip) It Was A Duel Of Honor

Union Major Dundee (Charlton Heston) and the Irish-born Confederate Tyreen (Richard Harris) re-open old wounds and inflict new ones in this early scene from director Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee, 1965.

Charlton Heston Memorial Promo

TCM's remembrance of actor Charlton Heston features images from Ben-Hur (1959), Touch of Evil (1958) and The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) among others.