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The Wild Bunch (1969) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 3, 1997
Budget $6,000,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
2 hours, 14 minutes
Country USA
Studio 7 Arts, Warner Brothers
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Other Titles
• The Wild Bunch - Sie kannten kein Gesetz (1969)
• Il Mucchio selvaggio (1969)
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Genre: Western, Revenge, Outlaws, Thieves, Epic, Cult Classic, Gore, Murder, Suspense, Escape, Deception
Tagline: Suddenly a new West has emerged. Suddenly it was sundown for nine men. Suddenly their day was over. Suddenly the sky was bathed in blood.
Plot: As a counterpoint to the heroic horde of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, the aging gunmen of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece break the very laws of honor which bind them in this bloody and meditative tale of the American West--widely considered to be the self-conscious nail in the coffin of the genre. William Holden, Robert Ryan, and Ernest Borgnine star as the leaders of a grizzled crew of Texan bandits who ride to Mexico, where, one by one, they are unceremoniously slaughtered by a Mexican revolutionary.The western, a genre steeped in legend and the concept of loyalty, was a dying breed when Sam Peckinpah unleashed this amoral and violent opus. Along with BONNIE AND CLYDE, it ushered in a new breed of Hollywood film, depicting a harsh reality where lines between right and wrong became blurred. Peckinpah brilliantly used aging Western stars such as Ryan and Holden to convey this passing of the cinematic torch. The film brought issues of violence and morality in movies to the forefront of American film criticism. Instead of appreciating the film as a critique of brutal violence, many critics responded by rejecting what they saw as a superfluous spectacle of dead bodies.
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Related Movies:
- Wild Bunch, The (2006) [remake]
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 | Robert Ryan
The Dirty Dozen, Bad Day at Black Rock, Battle of the Bulge | Edmond O'Brien
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, White Heat, The Hunchback of Notre Dame | | | | |
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Jerry Fielding
The Outlaw Josey Wales, Escape from Alcatraz, Straw Dogs |
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