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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
USA
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Year
1969
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Genre
Western
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- Pandilla Salvaje Alternative Spanish
Introduction
“This is a movie that overwhelms and incites. It throbs with the intensified vision, the paranoia, the cockeyed fatalism and courage of men who live near death.”
Michael Wilmington, The A List: The National Society of Film Critics’ 100 Essential Films, 2002
Harbingers of a modern world, the machine gun and the motor car spell the end of the lawless days of the west in this controversial classic. Beginning with an electrifying, dynamically edited armed robbery sequence, The Wild Bunch traces the riotous last weeks of a gang of aging gunslingers led by Pike (William Holden) as they flee south into Mexico.
Previously a television director with a couple of notable film westerns under his belt, Sam Peckinpah set a new standard for screen violence with his film’s bloodthirsty, slow-motion orgies of action and gunfire. This was a new, more brutal form of western fit for the time of the Vietnam War, but also a mythic lament for an outdated code of masculine honour.
Sheriff Pat Garrett travels south of the border to track down outlaw William Bonney in Peckinpah’s later western Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973).
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Pike Bishop
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Dutch Engstrom
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Deke Thornton
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Freddie Sykes
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Lyle Gorch
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Angel
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Tector Gorch
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Mapache
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Coffer
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T.C.
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Pat Harrigan
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Crazy Lee
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Mayor Wainscoat
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Lieutenant Zamorra
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Herrera
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Don José
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Teresa
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Aurora
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Elsa
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Ross
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Jess
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Buck
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Sergeant McHale
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Ignacio
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Rocio
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Yolis
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Juan José
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Juan
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Benson
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Emma
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Perez
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Mohr, German army officer
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Ernst
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paymaster
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Margaret
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Luna
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Gonzalez
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Lilia
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Carmen
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Julio
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Credits
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Direction:
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Second Unit Director
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Assistant Director
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Assistant Director
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Script Supervisor
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[Studio]
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Screenplay by
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Director of Photography
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Key Grip
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Special Effects
Editing:
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Film Editor
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Associate Film Editor
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Art Director
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[Properties]
Costumes:
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Wardrobe Supervisor
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Makeup
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Music by
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Music Supervised by
Sound:
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Sound
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[Supervising Recording Mixer]
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[Supervising Sound Editor]
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[Sound Editor]
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[Sound Editor]
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[Sound Editor]
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[Sound Editor]
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[Sound Editor]
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[Supervising Dialogue Editor]
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[Dialogue Editor]
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[Dialogue Editor]
Consultant:
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We Wish to express our appreciation to
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The Greatest Films of All Time 2012
Ranked 84th in the critics’ poll