Why Walter Hill, director of The Warriors and 48 Hrs., decided to make another Western
A disciple of Sam Peckinpah and Budd Boetticher—the latter of whom he dedicates Dead For A Dollar to—Walter Hill has been a fixture of American filmmaking for more than five decades. The 48 Hrs. films, starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte, rank among his biggest commercial hits, but many others in his career have gone…