"Mexico Lindo...Ah...You Have No Eyes." The Making of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch

"Mexico Lindo...Ah...You Have No Eyes."

The Making of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch

by John Farkis

8.25x11 size

408 pages

“Mexico Lindo...Ah, you have no eyes” is a virtual day-by-day description of the making of Sam Peckinpah’s epic masterpiece “The Wild Bunch.”

Told in the same vein as his previous “making of” books, actors, crew members, extras, wranglers, and stuntmen share anecdotes and observations of their time on the sets.

Drawing from published and unpublished sources, period newspapers, magazines, maps, diaries, internal correspondence, and new interviews, this richly researched and highly detailed work explores the trials and tribulations of pulling together this cinema-changing film and includes not only detailed descriptions of the various filmed scenes but also those that were filmed but not included in any version of the film. The addition of rarely seen behind-the-scenes photographs adds to the historical tapestry.

This book, as well as John’s previous works, provide not only an educational view of the filmmaking process but also offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the making of the epic masterpiece.


John Farkis, writer and Western film historian, is a former automotive executive of a Fortune 100 company. His previous books include “Alamo Village: How a Texas Cattleman Brought Hollywood to the Old West” (both the original and revised and expanded editions), “Not Thinkin’...Just Rememberin’...The Making of John Wayne’s The Alamo,” and “The Making of Tombstone: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Modern Western.” John’s Western cinema articles have been published on websites, in newspapers, and in magazines.