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Release Date:
7 August 1969 (Hong Kong)
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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
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars.
Another 5 wins
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2 nominations
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Peckinpah's ode to the closing of the American west.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| William Holden | ... | Pike Bishop | |
| Ernest Borgnine | ... | Dutch Engstrom | |
| Robert Ryan | ... | Deke Thornton | |
| Edmond O'Brien | ... | Freddie Sykes | |
| Warren Oates | ... | Lyle Gorch | |
| Jaime Sánchez | ... | Angel (as Jaime Sanchez) | |
| Ben Johnson | ... | Tector Gorch | |
| Emilio Fernández | ... | Gen. Mapache (as Emilio Fernandez) | |
| Strother Martin | ... | Coffer | |
| L.Q. Jones | ... | T.C | |
| Albert Dekker | ... | Pat Harrigan | |
| Bo Hopkins | ... | Clarence 'Crazy' Lee | |
| Dub Taylor | ... | Rev. Wainscoat | |
| Paul Harper | ... | Ross | |
| Jorge Russek | ... | Maj. Zamorra |
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Runtime:
134 min | USA:145 min (1995 re-release)
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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 (1988) (cut) |
Finland:K-16 (1998) (uncut) (director's 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
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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).
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Goofs:
Factual errors: In the scene in which Angel shoots his girlfriend, and the Wild Bunch is confronted by Gen. Mapache's men, Commander Mohr asks them about their weapons, and informs them that they are U.S. Army weapons and cannot be owned by civilians. However, the only U.S. Army weapons which they possess are M1911 Colt pistols, which in fact had been sold commercially since 1911, two years before this film takes place.
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Quotes:
[last lines]
Sykes: Didn't figure to find *you* here.
Deke Thornton: Why not? I sent them back; That's all I *said* I'd do.
Sykes: They didn't *get* very far.
Deke Thornton: I figured.
Sykes: What are your plans, now?
Deke Thornton: Drift around down here. Try to stay out of *jail*.
Sykes: Well, me and the boys got some work to do. You want to come with us? It ain't like it *used* to be; but it'll do.
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Sykes: Didn't figure to find *you* here.
Deke Thornton: Why not? I sent them back; That's all I *said* I'd do.
Sykes: They didn't *get* very far.
Deke Thornton: I figured.
Sykes: What are your plans, now?
Deke Thornton: Drift around down here. Try to stay out of *jail*.
Sykes: Well, me and the boys got some work to do. You want to come with us? It ain't like it *used* to be; but it'll do.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001) (TV)
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Is this movie based on a book?
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Probably one of the most controversial films ever made, the Wild Bunch was equally hated and admired upon it's release over 30 years ago. Even today, as proof of it's staying power, it is still widely debated if Sam Peckinpah made a masterpiece or a monstrosity. Personally, I'm of the firm belief that Peckinpah contributed one of the finest American films of the last century.
The chemistry that Peckinpah was able to put on celluloid for this film is brilliant. William Holden and Ernest Borgnine as the leaders of the Bunch, play their roles with conviction and tenacity. Robert Ryan, once an outlaw with Holden, and now forced to hunt him down, portrays the tortured individual caught between an old friendship and the threat of incarceration in a vicious prison. Ben Johnson and Warren Oates are solidly believable as real life brothers as they depict their roles as Tector and Lyle Gorch, and finally Jaime Sanchez rounds out the gang as the fiercely patriotic Mexican, Angel.
Also a Peckinpah movie wouldn't be complete without L.Q. Jones and Strother Martin portraying the cowardly, scheming, body robbing bounty hunters eager for the money on the heads of the Wild Bunch.
This is a film that you can re-visit time and time again and relish the depth of the characters and feel their desperation as the west that they once knew has now become a distant memory.
Apart from the great casting, the tight scripting , exciting stuntwork, wonderful cinematography, gripping dialogue, and first class editing of the gunfights, this movie will be continually looked upon as one of the most important films of American cinema.
See it, enjoy it and experience great movie making!!