Sam Peckinpah directed a 1969 parade.
 Both Peckinpah and McQueen needed a hit, and they immediately began working on the film in February 1972
 Peckinpah's other films include Ride the High Country (1962), Major Dundee (1965), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), Straw Dogs (1971), The Getaway (1972), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), and Convoy (1978), the most commercially successful film of his career

