Major Dundee 'Survivor' Style
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bullit2513 — 19 years ago(December 03, 2006 05:40 PM)
Hancock's right about Priam (Dub Taylor). In that shot of Dundee's troop slowing up as they reach the river, Priam is seen behind Dundee. If I've got the right guy, he's wearing a somewhat floppy hat and a reddish vest.
Then again, if it is Priam, you see him down the line right around Tyreen's "Well, Major, I shall see you in Texas" line. So I guess he gets killed sometime during that last melee in the river with the French lancers cause he's certainly alive before the fight. Maybe Priam's death was lost in the shuffle of all the editing.
Because all the other supporting characters, Sgt. Chillum, Aesop, Gomez, Potts, Graham, Arthur Hadley, Dahlstrom, Ryan, Jimmy Lee Benteen, Wiley, all get their moment that shows whether they live or die. It doesn't seem like Peckinpah would just leave something like Priam's death scene out.
"Congratulations, Major. It appears that at last you have found yourself a real war." Ben Tyreen