<P> From the beginning, the production was plagued with difficulties . Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer President James Aubrey, for economic reasons, refused to give Peckinpah the time or budget required, forcing the director to rely on local crew members in the Mexican state of Durango . Multiple technical problems, including malfunctioning cameras, led to costly reshoots . Cast and crew members also came down with influenza . Aubrey objected to several scenes that he considered superfluous to the film's plot, and Peckinpah and his crew reportedly worked weekends and lunch hours to secretly complete the sequences . Aubrey began to send telegrams to the set complaining about the number of camera setups that Peckinpah used and the time spent to shoot specific scenes . According to producer Gordon Carroll, the movie's set was "a battleground ." </P> <P> Peckinpah was plagued by alcoholism, with which he would struggle for the remainder of his life . This, combined with his clashes with Aubrey and the studio, led to his growing reputation as a difficult, unreliable filmmaker . Reportedly, when Dylan first arrived on the set, he and Kristofferson sat to watch dailies with Peckinpah . The director was so unhappy with the footage that he angrily stood on a folding chair and urinated on the screen . Similar stories began to reach Hollywood, prompting Peckinpah to purchase a full - page ad in The Hollywood Reporter mocking the rumors and the brass at MGM . The Hollywood producers were not amused . The film finished 21 days behind schedule and $1.6 million over budget . </P> <P> "Peckinpah was apt to strange behaviour and moods," Kristofferson recalled . "(Dylan and I) spent a lot of time chatting in our trailers and I told him about my friend Willie Nelson . I asked Bob,' Why isn't Willie famous? He's a genius .' So, the next day, Bob calls Willie up and gets him to come down to the set, and he made him play his old Martin guitar for ten hours straight . They ended up doing all these old Django Reinhardt tunes . It was fabulous ." </P> <P> By the time that Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid was in the editing room, Peckinpah's relationship with the studio and his own producers had reached the breaking point . Aubrey, enraged by the cost and production overruns, demanded the film for an unrealistic release date . Peckinpah and his editors were forced into a desperate situation in order to finish on time . Furthermore, Aubrey still objected to several sequences in the film which he wanted removed, forcing Peckinpah to engage in protracted negotiations over the film's content . Adding to the problems, Bob Dylan had never done a feature film score and Peckinpah's usual composer, Jerry Fielding, was unhappy with being relegated to a minor role in the scoring process . </P>

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