William Holden
Pike Bishop
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Sep 29, 2002 · It is that the mantle of violence is passing from the old professionals like Pike and his bunch, who operate according to a code, into the hands of a new generation that learns to kill more impersonally, as a game, or with machines. The movie takes place in 1913, on the eve of World War I.
In the waning days of the wild Old West and on the eve of World War I--after a botched attempt to rob a railroad office in broad daylight--the ageing outlaw, Pike Bishop, and his renegade gang of five equally dangerous criminals head to Mexico.
The Wild Bunch is Sam Peckinpah's shocking, violent ballad to an old world and a dying genre. Read Critics Reviews. TOP CRITIC. Jul 7, 2022. TOP CRITIC. Mar 18, 2020. TOP CRITIC. Jan 1, 2020....
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These thoughts, so far, have been inspired by a visit to the Chicago Theater to see Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" once again. It has become this year's controversial film about violence, the successor to " The Dirty Dozen ," " Bonnie and Clyde " and the Italian Westerns.
Jul 8, 2014 · 291K subscribers. Subscribed. 923. 162K views 9 years ago. The master of the American western, Sam Peckinpah, directs a stellar cast in The Wild Bunch, a controversial film that breathed new...
Apr 5, 2024 · The Wild Bunch, American western film, released in 1969, that is a classic of the genre and widely considered Sam Peckinpah ’s finest movie. Although the film’s graphic violence caused much controversy at the time of its release, the climactic shoot-out is arguably the best-directed and best-choreographed action sequence in the history of cinema.
The Wild Bunch (1969) is director/co-writer Sam Peckinpah's provocative, brilliant yet controversial Western, shocking for its graphic and elevated portrayal of violence and savagely-explicit carnage, yet hailed for its truly realistic and reinterpreted vision of the dying West in the early 20th century.
