MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah, Paul Seydor
Genres: Western
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"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 critics and audiences over its ferocious bloodshed. One side hailed it as a classic appropriately pitched to the violence and nihilism of the times, while the other reviled it as depraved. After a failed payroll robbery, the outlaw Bunch, led by aging Pike Bishop (William_Holden) and including Dutch (Ernest_Borgnine), Angel (Jaime_Sanchez), and Lyle and Tector Gorch (Warren_Oates and Ben_Johnson), heads for Mexico pursued by the gang of Pike's friend-turned-nemesis Deke Thornton (Robert_Ryan). Ultimately caught between the corruption of railroad fat cat Harrigan (Albert_Dekker) and federale general Mapache (Emilio_Fernandez), and without a frontier for escape, the Bunch opts for a final Pyrrhic victory, striding purposefully to confront Mapache and avenge their friend Angel. Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

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