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The Wild Bunch

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The Wild Bunch
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R,2hrs 25min
Genres:
Western,Action,War
Released:
June 18, 1969
Directors:
Sam Peckinpah, Paul Seydor
Distributor:
Warner Bros. Pictures
Starring:
William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan  ...more
Synopsis: "If they move, kill 'em!" Beginning and ending with two of the bloodiest battles in screen history, Sam Peckinpah's classic revisionist Western ruthlessly takes apart the myths of the West. Released in the late '60s discord over Vietnam, in the wake of the controversial Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and the brutal "spaghetti westerns" of Sergio Leone, The Wild Bunch polarized critics and audiences over its ferocious bloodshed. One side hailed it as a classic appropriately pitched to the violence and nihilism ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
From the opening image of children happily watching fire ants kill a scorpion, Sam Peckinpah presents a relentlessly pessimistic view of frontier life in 1913 as it gives way to modernity; any sense of honor is strictly relative, and "civilization" means venal businessmen and mercenaries. The western's myth of "righteous" violence is literally blasted to pieces in the two battle sequences evocative ... Full Review
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