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7 August 1969 (Hong Kong) moreTagline:
The land had changed. They hadn't. The earth had cooled. They couldn't. morePlot:
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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The definitive end of the west Western moreCast
(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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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
134 min | USA:145 min (1995 re-release)Country:
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Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 moreSound 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 (Manitoba) | Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) (original rating) | 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 | 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:18Fun Stuff
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The movie's line "If they move, kill 'em." was voted as the #72 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007. moreGoofs:
Continuity: When Pike shoots Buck to put him out of his misery after the opening sequence, Buck is first shown turning to the left as he falls - when we cut back to his fall he is clearly turning to the right moreQuotes:
Pike Bishop: [Holding a lit cigar to the fuses] You know what this is?Herrera: Cuidado.
Pike Bishop: Any trouble, no guns for the General.
Herrera: Ha, ha-ha-ha-ha. Very smart. That's very smart for you damn gringos. So nobody can rob the guns.
Pike Bishop: Nobody.
Herrera: I am not afraid. They are not afraid. You blow up the wagon, you die. Or we kill you pretty soon. But we are amigos.
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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.