“Until the Apache is taken or destroyed”. These words form the coda of tonight’s Peckinpah western, Major Dundee. The film was shot in Mexico in 1964. It starred Charlton Heston and Richard Harris and was the big budget opportunity of a former TV director, Sam Peckinpah, who had directed two highly creditable low-budget westerns: Deadly Companions and the classic Guns in the Afternoon. The film is the thrilling story of an obsessive quest by Union Major Dundee (played by Heston), whose determination to capture or kill an Apache marauder forces him to enlist the services of a group of black volunteers and Confederate prisoners of war. The latter group under Captain Benjamin Tyrene, played by Richard Harris.