sentences:  Marvin actually accepted the role but pulled out after he was offered more money to star in "Paint Your Wagon" (1969).Peckinpah's first two choices for the role of Deke Thornton were Richard Harris (who had co-starred in "Major Dundee") and Brian Keith (who had worked with Peckinpah on "The Westerner" (1960) and "The Deadly Companions" (1961)).Harris was never formally approached; Keith was asked, but he turned it down.