The Wild Bunch
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Film · TMDB
7.6An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Released: 1969-06-19145 minDir: Sam PeckinpahWestern
Cast
- William Holden as Pike Bishop
- Ernest Borgnine as Dutch Engstrom
- Robert Ryan as Deke Thornton
- Jaime Sánchez as Angel
- Warren Oates as Lyle Gorch
- Edmond O'Brien as Freddie Sykes
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Ratings · OMDb
IMDb
7.9/10
92,113 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Metacritic
98/100
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 2 Oscars. 6 wins & 8 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Sam Peckinpah
- Screenplay by
- Walon Green Sam Peckinpah
- Story by
- Walon Green Roy N. Sickner
- Produced by
- Phil Feldman
- Starring
- William Holden Ernest Borgnine Robert Ryan Edmond O'Brien Warren Oates Jaime Sánchez Ben Johnson Emilio Fernández Strother Martin L.Q. Jones
- Cinematography
- Lucien Ballard
- Edited by
- Louis Lombardo
- Music by
- Jerry Fielding
- Production company
- Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
- Release date
- June 18, 1969 ( 1969-06-18 )
- Running time
- 145 minutes
Key dates
- Published
- 3 October 1969
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- vigilante film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- Mexican Revolution
- Movement
- New Hollywood
- Director
- Sam Peckinpah
- Screenwriter
- Walon Green
- Composer
- Jerry Fielding
Article
The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American epic revisionist Western film co-written and directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates. The plot concerns an aging outlaw gang on the Mexico–United States border trying to adapt to the changing modern world of 1913. The film was controversial because of its graphic violence and its portrayal of crude men attempting to survive by any available means.
The screenplay was co-written by Peckinpah, Walon Green, and Roy N. Sickner. The Wild Bunch was filmed in Technicolor and Panavision in Mexico, notably at the Hacienda Ciénaga del Carmen, deep in the desert between Torreón and Saltillo, Coahuila, and on the Nazas River.