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Name: The Wild Bunch
Released: 1969-6-18
Cast: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates

The Wild Bunch

R
2h 15m
1969

91%

"The land had changed. They hadn't. The earth had cooled. They couldn't." The old and the new West clash as a outlaws led by an aging gun fighter ride into a Texas border town to rob a local railroad office--only to find that they came too late and stayed too long in this groundbreaking Western.

Director:

Sam Peckinpah

Producer:

Phil Feldman

Cast:

William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Jaime Sanchez, Strother Martin, Emilio Fernandez, L.Q. Jones, Albert Dekker

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

91%

Critics Consensus: The Wild Bunch is Sam Peckinpah's shocking, violent ballad to an old world and a dying genre.

Reviews

Solzy at the Movies

Danielle Solzman

To say that The Wild Bunch is a violent masterpiece would not be an understatement.

The pictorial style of the film — classical, elegiac — bumps up against the technique that fractures and prolongs death.

Apart from Peckinpah's simple technical control and the cut of his script, which is a knife that never slips off the bone, there is an angry quality to his mind.

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.

This controversial epic was as highly praised as it was condemned upon its release, boomingly announcing the arrival of daring new director.

August 27, 2020

FULL REVIEW