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Overview

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Director:
Sam Peckinpah
Writers:
Walon Green (story) and
Roy N. Sickner (story) ...
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Release Date:
7 August 1969 (Hong Kong) more
Genre:
Action | Western more
Tagline:
The land had changed. They hadn't. The earth had cooled. They couldn't. more
Plot:
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations more
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(30 articles)
The Sunday Movie Quotes Quiz – The Answers
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The Wild Bunch On Stage- November 12
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The definitive end of the west Western more (230 total)

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Additional Details

Runtime:
134 min | USA:145 min (1995 re-release)
Country:
USA
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | DTS (1995 re-release) | Dolby Digital (1995 re-release) | Mono (35 mm prints) | SDDS (1995 re-release)
Certification:
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) (re-rating) (1995) | Canada:AA (Ontario) (re-rating) (1995) | Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) (original rating) | Canada:R (Manitoba) | UK:18 (re-rating) (1988) (also director's cut) | UK:X (original rating) (cut) | France:-18 (original rating) | Brazil:14 | Finland:K-16 (1998) (uncut) (director's cut) | Finland:K-16 (1988) (cut) | Finland:K-18 (1969) (uncut) | South Korea:18 | Iceland:16 | Malaysia:U (director's cut) | USA:R (re-rating on appeal) | Germany:16 (DVD rating) | Canada:18A (British Columbia) (1999) | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:13 | Australia:MA (director's cut) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | France:-12 (director's cut) | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:R16 (director's cut) | Norway:16 (cut) | Norway:18 | Singapore:NC-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:R (original rating) | West Germany:16 (w) | Ireland:18
Filming Locations:
Durango, Mexico more

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Trivia:
Before William Holden was cast, the role was turned down by Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, Sterling Hayden, Richard Boone and Robert Mitchum. Marvin actually accepted the role but pulled out after he was offered a larger pay deal to star in Paint Your Wagon (1969). more
Goofs:
Factual errors: Gen. Mapache's German military advisers stated that they were officers of "The Imperial German Army". At the time of this film's setting, 1913, the only German military forces belonged to the states of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Württemberg, and they weren't called the "Imperial German Army". The filmmakers most likely meant the Imperial Prussian Army, as Prussia was ruled by a king and its army was generally regarded as among the best in Europe. It was also known to hire out its officers as advisers to foreign armies. more
Quotes:
Pike Bishop: He gave his word.
Dutch Engstrom: He gave his word to a railroad.
Pike Bishop: It's his word.
Dutch Engstrom: That ain't what counts! It's who you give it *to*!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Inglourious Basterds (2009) more

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75 out of 103 people found the following comment useful.
The definitive end of the west Western, 3 October 2004
10/10
Author: John-376 from North Yorkshire, England

An incredible performance by Bill Holden is the high point of this sensational, landmark film. Holden made a whole career out of laid-back, easy-going, what-the-hell sort of characters but here, at his zenith, he departs from type and plays a character so mean and so embittered that in some ways he even out-Bronsons Bronson himself.

The Wild Bunch is a group of disillusioned outlaws who are out of time and they know it. When Sykes says that they've got one of those things (a car) up north that can fly, they gloomily accept that this new-fangled 20th Century is not for them.

It is a movie all about values and about a man's loyalty to his companions. Holden brilliantly declares that if you cannot stand by a man who rides with you, you are like some kind of animal. In the end, that is all these hunted men have: their loyalty to each other.

And so they band together for one last walk to try and rescue their doomed Mexican comrade. The bloodbath that follows is an eloquent summary of their lives. They who live by the gun.....

Superb performances by Holden in particular and also by O'Brien, Ryan, Borgnine, Oates and Johnson. Peckinpah's finest hour. Definitely ten out of ten.

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