In 1969, Sam Peckinpah (wearing bandana) cast his friends (l.-r.) Slim Pickens, Max Evans and Jason Robards (standing) in The Ballad of Cable Hogue. Evans later wrote that Peckinpah directed Pickens to drive the stage at a gallop and pull it to a dead stop in front of Robards. “Very few stunt men can drive a six-horse stage. Slim is the only professional actor I know of capable of doing this. …” — Courtesy Warner Bros. —[
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