Title:

Wild Bunch, The

Synopsis:
The Wild Bunch -
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
Produced by: Phil Feldman
Screenplay by: Sam Peckinpah,
& Walon Green
Story by: Walon Green & Roy N. Sickner
Starring:
William Holden
Ernest Borgnine
Robert Ryan
Edmond O’Brien
Warren Oates
Jaime Sánchez
Ben Johnson
Music by: Jerry Fielding
Cinematography: Lucien Ballard
Editing by: Lou Lombardo
Studio: Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
Distributed by: Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
Release date: June 18, 1969
Running time: 143 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $6 million
Box office: $10,500,000

The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American epic Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah about an aging outlaw gang on the Texas-Mexico border, trying to exist in the changing ”modern” world of 1913. The film was controversial because of its graphic violence and its portrayal of crude men attempting to survive by any available means.

It stars William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates. The screenplay was by Peckinpah and Walon Green.

The Wild Bunch is noted for intricate, multi-angle, quick-cut editing, using normal and slow motion images, a revolutionary cinema technique in 1969. The writing of Green, Peckinpah, and Roy N. Sickner was nominated for a best-screenplay Academy Award; Jerry Fielding’s music was nominated for Best Original Score; Peckinpah was nominated for an Outstanding Directorial Achievement award by the Directors Guild of America; and cinematographer Lucien Ballard won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography.

In 1999, the U.S. National Film Registry selected it for preservation in the Library of Congress as culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant. The film was ranked 80th in the American Film Institute’s 100 best American films, and the 69th most thrilling film. In 2008, the AFI revealed its ”10 Top 10” of the best ten films in ten genres: The Wild Bunch ranked as the sixth-best Western.
Format:
HD DVD
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Movie Release Year:
1969
Barcode:
085391292920
Genre:
Western
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Show Type:
Movie
Date Added:
2018-02-07 18:12:58
Original Aspect Ratio:
2.40:1
Actors:
Strother Martin
Ernest Borgnine
Bo Hopkins
Robert Ryan
Edmond O’Brien
William Holden
Ben Johnson
Warren Oates
Dub Taylor
Emilio Fernandez
Jaime Sanchez
Jorge Russek
Paul Harper
Albert Decker
Elsa Cardenas
Aurora Clavel
L. Q. Jones
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Directors:
Sam Peckinpah
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Country of Purchase:
Canada
Release Date:
2007-09-25
Studios:
Warner Bros.
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Resolution:
1080p
Discs:
1
Region:
Free
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$6.00
Automatic Estimated Date:
2024-12-12
Date Added:
2018-02-07 18:12:58

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