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The Wild Bunch 145 minutes, USA (1969), 18
(5.0)
Rating: 5.0 Stars
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Average user rating (4.8 / 27 votes)
Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, William Holden and Ernest Borgnine in The Wild Bunch

Quintessential essay in violence and masculine virtues from Sam Peckinpah. A bloody, incredibly orchestrated revisionist western that sees William Holden, Ernest Borgnine and sundry desperado colleagues facing up to the passing of the raw world they know

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The Wild Bunch: After nearly five years in the Hollywood wilderness, having fallen out with the studio during the shooting of Major Dundee, Sam Peckinpah returned to directing with this bloody tribute to his beloved West.

Pike (William Holden), Dutch (Ernest Borgnine), the Gorch brothers (Warren Oates and Ben Johnson), Angel (Jaime Sanchez) and Sykes (Edmond O'Brien) are the doomed outlaws of the title...
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