"major dundee" helped cement peckinpah's image as a renegade filmmaker, which he would enhance with the conflicts on his later films, such as "straw dogs", "pat garrett and billy the kid", and "bring me the head of alfredo garcia". others, namely peckinpah's biographer david weddle (author of "if they move ... kill 'em! the life and times of sam peckinpah"), argue that peckinpah is just as much to blame for the final product as columbia and jerry bresler. since its release on dvd, "dundee" has begun to get recognition and notice from the public at large, and not just western fans.