Landed the enviable role of cutter on
Sam Peckinpah's
The Wild Bunch (1969) after Sam had
seen his groundbreaking technique in
My Mommy Got Lost (1967), an episode of
The Felony Squad (1966) directed by
George McCowan. Lombardo had
taken footage of villain
Joe Don Baker being gunned down by police, printed
each frame of Baker's fall to the ground three times on an optical
printer, and intercut this footage with shots of cops shooting and
running for cover in real time. Peckinpah was so spellbound by this
sequence,he hired Lombardo right away.