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The Wild Bunch
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1969 film by Sam Peckinpah
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The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American heist, Western, and vigilante film directed by Sam Peckinpah. The screenplay was written by Peckinpah and Walon Green, with Lucien Ballard serving as director of photography and Lou Lombardo as film editor. The cast includes William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, and Edmond O'Brien. Produced by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, the film is set in Mexico and Texas during the Mexican Revolution. It was distributed by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts and Netflix, with a runtime of 145 minutes.
The film received a Metascore of 98 and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 91%. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.9 based on 94,211 votes and a TMDb vote average of 7.584 from 1,325 users. The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, and has received six wins and eight nominations total. Its budget was $6,244,087, and it generated $638,641 in revenue.
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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.
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
Themes
- underdog
- friendship
- bounty hunter
- robbery
- texas
- mexican revolution
- honor
- gang
- shootout
- soldier
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Ratings
IMDb
7.9/10
92,113 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Metacritic
98/100
- Year
- 1969
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- 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
- Country
- United States
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Budget
- $6 million
- Box office
- $11 million
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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