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MPAA Raing: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Genres: Revisionist Western, Outlaw (Gunfighter) Film, Western
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Summary:
"If they move, kill 'em!" Beginning and ending with two of the bloodiest battles in screen history, Sam Peckinpah's classic revisionist Western ruthlessly takes apart the myths of the West. Released in the late '60s discord over Vietnam, in the wake of the controversial Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and the brutal "spaghetti westerns" of Sergio Leone, The Wild Bunch polarized criti... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
William Holden - (Pike)
Ernest Borgnine - (Dutch)
Robert Ryan - (Thornton)
Edmond O'Brien - (Sykes)
Warren Oates - (Lyle Gorch)
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Review:
From the opening image of children happily watching fire ants kill a scorpion, Sam_Peckinpah presents a relentlessly pessimistic view of frontier life in 1913 as it gives way to modernity; any sense of honor is strictly relative, and "civilization" means venal businessmen and mercenaries. The western's myth of "righteous" violence is literally b... Continue >>

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