Other Titles • The Wild Bunch - Sie kannten kein Gesetz (1969) • Il Mucchio selvaggio (1969)
Trivia from The Wild Bunch (1969)
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The original Peckinpah cut ran 152 minutes. For practical reasons he cut the theatrically released print to 144 minutes. Producer Phil Feldman was responsible for creating a 35mm wide-screen print that was 134 minutes. Another shorter version, distributed in Europe was 127 minutes, in 70mm film, and allegedly contained sequences never included as part of the American product.
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Alfonso Arau, who directed the Mexican love story LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE, made his American acting debut as the bandito Herrera.
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Theatrical release: 1969
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THE WILD BUNCH was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1999.
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Peckinpah had a response for those who decried the film's violence: "Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple--it's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere."
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Emilio Fernandez, who played Mapache, was one of Mexico's foremost actors and directors. Interestingly, in some of his most famous Mexican films, such as ENAMORADA, Fernandez was cast as the revolutionary hero--the complete opposite of his role in THE WILD BUNCH.
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