Filming Locations

Durango, Mexico

Alternate Versions

For its original release the film was massively recut by the studio without the director's approval. Subsequently the editor, Roger Spottiswoode, restored it in a manner closer to Peckinpah's intentions. The Peckinpah/Spottiswoode version introduces several scenes not in the original release, most notably a framing narrative showing Garrett's death twenty-five years later; it also removes the song "Knocking on Heaven's Door" from the Dylan soundtrack at the death of Sheriff Baker.


Television version had violence and nudity cut and new scenes added.