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The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch
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Theatrical release poster
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
Edited by Lou Lombardo
Production
company
Distributed by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
Release date
  • June 18, 1969 (1969-06-18)
Running time
143 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $6 million
Box office $11,138,641

The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American epic Western Technicolor and Panavision 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.

The movie, whose screenplay was written by Peckinpah and Walon Green, stars William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates. It was filmed in Mexico, notably at the Hacienda Ciénaga del Carmen (deep in the desert between Torreón and Saltillo, Coahuila) and on the Rio Nazas.

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, and the music by Jerry Fielding was nominated for Best Original Score. Additionally, 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.


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