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The Wild Bunch (1969)
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An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them. Director:Sam Peckinpah |
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Cast
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| William Holden | ... | ||
| Ernest Borgnine | ... | ||
| Robert Ryan | ... | ||
| Edmond O'Brien | ... | ||
| Warren Oates | ... | ||
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Jaime Sánchez | ... |
Angel
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| Ben Johnson | ... | ||
| Emilio Fernández | ... |
Gen. Mapache
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Strother Martin | ... | |
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L.Q. Jones | ... | |
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Albert Dekker | ... | |
| Bo Hopkins | ... | ||
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Dub Taylor | ... | |
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Paul Harper | ... |
Ross
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Jorge Russek | ... |
Maj. Zamorra
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Storyline
In the Wild Bunch the movie opens with a group of aging outlaw's final score, a bank robbery. The event concludes with a violent and overtly bloody shootout that would generally mark the finale of a movie. This is correct in that it marks the finale of an era, for the characters and the world they live in. They simply can no longer keep up, the times are changing, technology advancing, and they're style of life is getting left behind in the dust that they spent so long galloping through. They abandon their careers for the simpler life of retirement. They enjoy this time, they live their fantasies. During this time the law is always on their tracks, bounty hunters. The further into their fantasy they get, the closer their demise seems to get. When one of their own is captured they are faced with the choice of escape or what is certainly a suicide mission to attempt and free their fallen behind comrade... Written by VilanTrub@gmail.com
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Unchanged men in a changing land. Out of step, out of place and desperately out of time. See more »Parents Guide:
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La pandilla salvaje See more »Box Office
Budget:
$6,244,087 (estimated)Gross:
$10,500,000 (USA) (1970)Company Credits
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Runtime:
USA: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)Color:
Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1
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[indistinct voices]
Rev. Wainscoat: Do not drink wine or strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, least ye shall die. Look not though upon the wine when it is red, and when it bringeth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright at the last, it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. Now folks, that's from the Good Book, but in this here town it's five cents a glass. Five cents a glass, now does anyone think that that is a price of a drink?
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(uncredited)
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Sung by the bounty hunters as they leave Agua Verde See more »
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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. See more »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. See more »Quotes
[first lines][indistinct voices]
Rev. Wainscoat: Do not drink wine or strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, least ye shall die. Look not though upon the wine when it is red, and when it bringeth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright at the last, it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. Now folks, that's from the Good Book, but in this here town it's five cents a glass. Five cents a glass, now does anyone think that that is a price of a drink?
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Soundtracks
"Polly Wolly Doodle"(uncredited)
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Sung by the bounty hunters as they leave Agua Verde See more »
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