when he had someone strong to bounce off)." Japanese film director Shinji Aoyama listed The Killer Elite as one of the greatest films of all time in 2012. He said, "No other movie has taught me as much about human dignity as The Killer Elite." In 1977, James Caan said he only made the film because his advisers told him to work with Peckinpah, and he rated it a zero on a scale to ten. The film holds a score of 54% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 13 reviews. Home video The Killer Elite was released on DVD by MGM on April 1, 2003, as a French Blu-ray by Wild Side (under license from MGM) in 2013 and as a limited-edition Blu-ray by Twilight Time in the U.S. that includes a rare 1966 television adaptation of Noon Wine directed by Peckinpah for ABC-TV's Studio 67. The Twilight Time release also features an isolated soundtrack and an excerpt from the Peckinpah film biography Passion and Poetry. See also List of American films of 1975 References External links 1975 films 1970s spy films 1970s action thriller films American spy films American films about revenge Films directed by Sam Peckinpah Films scored by Jerry Fielding United Artists films Yakuza films Films with screenplays by Stirling Silliphant Japan in non-Japanese culture Films set in San Francisco 1970s American films 1970s Japanese films