At a time when Hollywood studios are run by teams of faceless accountants whose idea of a bright idea is to drag bloated multi-millionaires in front of the cameras for Lethal Weapon 15 - This Time They're Hairdressers!, it's hard to imagine a studio head who backed his own judgement and made films that were more than just cheap excuses to sell popcorn. Meet Kenneth Hyman.

Hman was the man who gave Sam Peckinpah the money to make The Wild Bunch at a time when the rest of Hollywood considered him an incorrigible drunk and wouldn't have trusted him to direct traffic.