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The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American epic revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates. The plot concerns an aging outlaw gang on the Mexico–United States border trying to adapt to the changing modern world of 1913.
The Wild Bunch: Directed by Sam Peckinpah. With William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien. An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
The master of the American western, Sam Peckinpah, directs a stellar cast in this movie that breathed new life into the genre and broke ground in the realistic portrayal of screen violence. This ...
Feb 19, 2021 · Carlsen decides to test how hard the rest of the Movie Trap will work to overthrow his reign by declaring the new theme of films by Sam Peckinpah and then picking The Wild Bunch as the first...
Sam Peckinpah made The Wild Bunch as a reaction against the unreality of the sanitised westerns of his day which glamorised violence while simultaneously being entirely bloodless.
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In the fictional south Texas town of Starbuck, the "Wild Bunch" - led by Pike Bishop (William Holden), and also including Dutch Engstrom (Ernest Borgnine), Lyle and Tector Gorch (Warren Oates and Ben Johnson), Angel (Jaime Sanchez), Buck (Rayford Barnes), and Clarence 'Crazy' Lee (Bo Hopkins), among others - enters the town, with half of them ...
Sep 29, 2002 · In an early scene of "The Wild Bunch," the bunch rides into town past a crowd of children who are gathered with excitement around their game. They have trapped some scorpions and are watching them being tortured by ants.
The Wild Bunch. Receiving two Academy Award nominations, this bitter, brutal story of magnificent losers in a dying West remains one of the screen's all-time classics. 3,527 2 h 24 min 1969. X-Ray R. Drama · Western · Gritty · Malicious. Available to rent or buy. Rent. HD $3.99. Buy movie. HD $11.19 $9.99. More purchase. options.
There are no ‘good guys’ in The Wild Bunch, only bad guys and worse guys. The titular bunch are thieves and killers, but at least they won’t rob a dead man – unlike the posse of bounty hunters, led by Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan), sent by the railroad company to bring the bunch in dead or alive.
Demystifying the traditional Western through raw, unglamorous violence, The Wild Bunch exploded onto the screen in 1969 and altered the face of the genre, and filmmaking, forever.
