The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American epic revisionist Western film 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.
Plot
In 1913 Texas, Pike Bishop, the leader of a gang of aging outlaws, seeks to retire after a final robbery of silver from a railroad payroll office. Corrupt railroad agent Pat Harrigan has hired a posse of bounty hunters led by Pike's former partner Deke Thornton, who ambush and kill more than half of Bishop's gang in a bloody shootout, which also kills many innocent bystanders as Pike uses a serendipitous temperance union parade to shield their getaway.
More details
| author | Sam Peckinpah Walon Green |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Mexico Texas |
| director | Sam Peckinpah |
| editor | Lou Lombardo |
| events | Mexican Revolution |
| genre | western |
| keywords | bounty hunter brothel bury capture force former partner gang member german german empire huertista kill last second load mexican border mexican federal army needing money pancho villa rio grande river stealing food temperance movement temperance union trestle bridge u.s. army victoriano huerta washer wound |
| musicBy | Jerry Fielding |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Original Score, no Musical Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay |
| producer | Phil Feldman |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros.-Seven Arts |
| publisher | Warner Bros.-Seven Arts |
| recordedAt | Mexico |
| theme | epic vigilante |