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Release Date:
7 August 1969 (Hong Kong)
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Tagline:
The land had changed. They hadn't. The earth had cooled. They couldn't. more
Plot:
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars.
Another 5 wins
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2 nominations
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(31 articles)
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The definitive end of the west Western
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | William Holden | ... | Pike Bishop |
 | Ernest Borgnine | ... | Dutch Engstrom |
 | Robert Ryan | ... | Deke Thornton |
 | Edmond O'Brien | ... | Freddie Sykes |
 | Warren Oates | ... | Lyle Gorch |
| Jaime Sánchez | ... | Angel (as Jaime Sanchez) |
 | Ben Johnson | ... | Tector Gorch |
| Emilio Fernández | ... | Gen. Mapache (as Emilio Fernandez) |
| Strother Martin | ... | Coffer |
| L.Q. Jones | ... | T.C |
| Albert Dekker | ... | Pat Harrigan |
| Bo Hopkins | ... | Clarence 'Crazy' Lee |
| Dub Taylor | ... | Rev. Wainscoat |
| Paul Harper | ... | Ross |
| Jorge Russek | ... | Maj. Zamorra |
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Runtime:
134 min | USA:145 min (1995 re-release)
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
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)
Certification:
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) (re-rating) (1995) |
Canada:AA (Ontario) (re-rating) (1995) |
Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) (original rating) |
Canada:R (Manitoba) |
UK:18 (re-rating) (1988) (also director's cut) |
UK:X (original rating) (cut) |
France:-18 (original rating) |
Brazil:14 |
Finland:K-16 (1988) (cut) |
Finland:K-16 (1998) (uncut) (director's cut) |
Finland:K-18 (1969) (uncut) |
South Korea:18 |
Iceland:16 |
Malaysia:U (director's cut) |
USA:R (re-rating on appeal) |
Germany:16 (DVD rating) |
Canada:18A (British Columbia) (1999) |
Portugal:M/12 |
Spain:13 |
Australia:MA (director's cut) |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
France:-12 (director's cut) |
Netherlands:12 |
New Zealand:R16 (director's cut) |
Norway:16 (cut) |
Norway:18 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Sweden:15 |
USA:R (original rating) |
West Germany:16 (w) |
Ireland:18
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This film was adapted from a story thought up by Roy N. Sickner, an actor and stuntman. Writer Walon Green wrote the script, which was then rewritten by Sam Peckinpah. Green felt that Peckinpah's rewrite was substantial enough to deserve credit, but Green had to lobby the writer’s guild to allow Peckinpah a credit. Green has always said he was grateful to Peckinpah for not rewriting too much of the script just to get credit. Green, Sickner and Peckinpah all shared Academy award nominations for best screenplay (the only Oscar nomination Peckinpah ever received in his entire career.) They didn't win.
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Anachronisms: Coffer is seen using a Model 1903/A3 bolt-action rifle on the rooftop during the bank shootout scene. The /A3 model is clearly distinguishable from its earlier predecessor, the Model of 1903, by the rear sight placement on the rifle. The Model of 1903 used tangent sight located on the barrel, in front of the receiver, whereas the newer, improved variant used a "peep" sight located on the receiver bridge nearer to the bolt handle. The /A3 variant was a World War Two (circa 1941) improvement on the older model of 1903. Coffer should have been seen using a Model 1903, instead of a 1903/A3.
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Quotes:
Coffer:
Mr Thornton; you, ah, rode with Pike, what kinda man we up against?
Deke Thornton: [thinking back] The *best*; he never got *caught*!
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Deke Thornton: [thinking back] The *best*; he never got *caught*!
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Featured in The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema (2002)
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An incredible performance by Bill Holden is the high point of this sensational, landmark film. Holden made a whole career out of laid-back, easy-going, what-the-hell sort of characters but here, at his zenith, he departs from type and plays a character so mean and so embittered that in some ways he even out-Bronsons Bronson himself.
The Wild Bunch is a group of disillusioned outlaws who are out of time and they know it. When Sykes says that they've got one of those things (a car) up north that can fly, they gloomily accept that this new-fangled 20th Century is not for them.
It is a movie all about values and about a man's loyalty to his companions. Holden brilliantly declares that if you cannot stand by a man who rides with you, you are like some kind of animal. In the end, that is all these hunted men have: their loyalty to each other.
And so they band together for one last walk to try and rescue their doomed Mexican comrade. The bloodbath that follows is an eloquent summary of their lives. They who live by the gun.....
Superb performances by Holden in particular and also by O'Brien, Ryan, Borgnine, Oates and Johnson. Peckinpah's finest hour. Definitely ten out of ten.