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The Wild Bunch

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The Wild Bunch

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Summary

Sam Peckinpah's classic western, starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine and Robert Ryan. Texas, 1913: in the last days of the Old West, Pike Bishop's outlaws ride into a bloody ambush when they attempt to rob a railroad office.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Tom Hutchinson

This is arguably one of the greatest westerns ever made. And argument is what Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece has always caused, with its slow-motion blood-letting, its surrealistically choreographed gunfights and its portrayal of Pike Bishop's amoral Texas outlaws as heroes. Yet William Holden's laconic Bishop, however violent, belongs to a truly romantic breed as he leads his bunch to their ultimate fate against the revolutionary guerrilla forces of murderous general Mapache. Meanwhile, the forces of law and order led by old amigo Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan) are closing in for the kill... Lucien Ballard's photography gives a funereal hue to this elegy to the passing of a certain breed of chivalry. You can see why John Wayne is said to have hated the film; Peckinpah was practically reinventing a genre, with no place left for false nobility.

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Cast

rolenamePike BishopWilliam Holden (2)Dutch EngstromErnest BorgnineDeke ThorntonRobert RyanSykesEdmond O'BrienLyle GorchWarren OatesAngelJaime SanchezTector GorchBen Johnson (1)MapacheEmilio FernandezCofferStrother MartinTCL Q JonesPat HarriganAlbert DekkerCrazy LeeBo HopkinsMayor WainscoatDub TaylorLieutenant ZamorraJorge RussekHerreraAlfonso ArauDon JoseChano UruetaTeresaSonia AmelioAuroraAurora ClavelElsaElsa Cardenas

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rolenameDirectorSam Peckinpah

Details

Theatrical distributor

Warner Seven Arts

Released on

1969-08-21

Languages

English | German | Spanish

Guidance

Contains violence and brief nudity.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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