8. Sam Peckinpah And Lee Marvin
Sam Peckinpah liked to get drunk and shoot his gun. Lee Marvin liked to get drunk and look like he was prepared to shoot a gun - at anyone - at any moment. Surely, a collaboration between Hollywood's grizzliest director and its grouchiest actor would be a match made in heaven? Obviously in dreams, yes; evidently, in reality, no. Marvin was set to star as Pike Bishop in Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, but he reportedly fell out with the director before filming even began. It's damn poor luck - Marvin has in the past been called - correctly - "the greatest Peckinpah actor never to work with Peckinpah." Hell, Marvin was so Peckinpah, it seemed like Peckinpah was secretly the writer behind every Lee Marvin character that ever existed.