The Wild Bunch (1969) | |
| Director(s) | Sam Peckinpah |
| Producer(s) | Phil Feldman, Roy N. Sickner (associate) |
| Top Genres | Action, Western |
| Top Topics | Gunfighters, Outlaws |
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The Wild Bunch Overview:
The Wild Bunch (1969) was a Action - Western Film directed by Sam Peckinpah and produced by Phil Feldman and Roy N. Sickner.
The Wild Bunch was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1999.
Academy Awards 1969 --- Ceremony Number 42 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Music - Scoring | Jerry Fielding | Nominated |
| Best Writing | Story by Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner; Screenplay by Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah | Nominated |
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The Wild Bunch (1969)
By Beatrice on Apr 23, 2020 From Flickers in TimeThe Wild Bunch Directed by Sam Peckinpah Written by Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah, and Roy N. Sickner 1969/US First viewing/Amazon Instant One of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die This bloody, violent Western holds out little hope for humanity. ?Maybe not the thing for the disgusted during Lockdo... Read full article
The Wild Bunch - Looking Back on Peckinpah's Classic After 50 Years
By Rick29 on Oct 16, 2019 From Classic Film & TV CafeWilliam Holden in The Wild Bunch. Fifty years ago, two of American cinema's most influential Westerns were released: the revisionist Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch. Neither film staved off the decline of the Western genre, but each impacted Hollywood in signif... Read full article
The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah), the director’s cut
By Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 15, 2017 From The Stop ButtonThe Wild Bunch opens with a methodically executed heist slash shootout sequence. Director Peckinpah quickly introduces cast members, partially due to the dramatic plotting, mostly due to Lou Lombardo?s fantastic editing. All juxtaposed with some kids watching ants kill scorpions. The Wild Bunch open... Read full article
The Wild Bunch (1969)
By smumcountry on Jan 21, 2015 From Smum CountyJanuary 21, 2015 by smumcounty It?s 1913. A band of outlaws in Texas headed by Pike Bishop (William Holden) are looking to make one more big score so they can retire. To that end they plan the robbery of a railroad office which reportedly has a safe full of silver coins. They manage to ride into tow... Read full article
The Wild Bunch (1969)
By smumcountry on Jan 21, 2015 From Smum CountyJanuary 21, 2015 by smumcounty It?s 1913. A band of outlaws in Texas headed by Pike Bishop (William Holden) are looking to make one more big score so they can retire. To that end they plan the robbery of a railroad office which reportedly has a safe full of silver coins. They manage to ride into tow... Read full article
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Quotes from The Wild Bunch
Dutch Engstrom: Pike; "I wouldn't have it any other way", *either*!
Pike Bishop: You know what we are then?
Don Jose: Si, the both of you!
Pike Bishop: [laughing] And you!
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Facts about The Wild Bunch
Body count: 145
The "modern" sidearms (the film's setting is 1913) that the Bishop gang carries are Colt M1911 automatic pistols and Winchester M1897 pump-action shotguns. The water-cooled heavy machine gun is the Browning M1917. US and Mexican soldiers use M1903 Springfield rifles. All of the aforementioned weapons were used in World War I by the US Army. While the 1897 Winchester shotgun was featured prominently, they were not used exclusively by the Bunch. The shotgun that Crazy Lee had at the start of the movie in the railroad office, did not have an exposed hammer, which is something all 1987s have. Neither the 1897 or the Winchester Model 12 had a trigger disconnector, which means the trigger could be continually depressed and every time the the slide was pumped it would fire. Since this was what we see the Bunch doing as they are firing through the railroad office windows at the bounty hunters on the roof, at least the shotgun that Crazy Lee loaned briefly to Abe must have been a M12, based on it not having an exposed hammer. This can be see most clearly when Crazy Lee is firing at the 3 people he was holding in the office, after they tried to escape.
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