Sam Peckinpah's first film, The Deadly Companions, will be released on DVD on February 13, 2013. (Lucky day!)
Ron Scheer at his Buddies in the Saddle blog posted a great write-up about The Deadly Companions two days ago:
http://buddiesinthesaddle.blog…adly-companions-1961.html
And a little more information from Toby's 50 Westerns from the '50s blog: