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This article is about the live-action fiction movie. For the real Western gang of the same name, see Wild Bunch. The Wild Bunch, also known as the Doolin&ndashDalton Gang, was one of the names of a group of outlaws based in the Indian Territory, that terrorized Kansas For other uses, see Wild Bunch (disambiguation).
The Wild Bunch
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
Produced by Phil Feldman
Written by Story:
Walon Green
Roy N. David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah (February 21 1925 &ndash December 28 1984 was an American Film director who achieved iconic status following the release Walon Green (born December 15, 1936) is an American Documentary film director and screenwriter for both TV and films Sickner
Screenplay:
Sam Peckinpah
Walon Green
Starring William Holden
Ernest Borgnine
Robert Ryan
Edmond O'Brien
Warren Oates
Ben Johnson
Music by Jerry Fielding
Cinematography Lucien Ballard, ASC
Distributed by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
Release date(s) Flag of the United States July 18, 1969
Running time Original European:
145 Mins (1969)
Original USA:
143 Mins (1969)
Shortened USA:
135 Mins (1969)
Director's Cut: 145 Mins (1995)
Language English
Budget $6,000,000
IMDb profile

The Wild Bunch (1969) is a Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah detailing the end of the cowboy era in the final adventures of an aging outlaw gang at the Texas–Mexico border in 1913. David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah (February 21 1925 &ndash December 28 1984 was an American Film director who achieved iconic status following the release William Holden ( April 17, 1918 &ndash November 12, 1981) was an Academy Award -winning American film Actor Ermes Effron Borgnino (born January 24 1917 better known by his stage name Ernest Borgnine, is an American Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Edmond O'Brien (September 10 1915 – May 9 1985 was an American Film Actor who is perhaps best remembered for his role in D Warren Mercer Oates (July 5 1928 – April 3 1982 was a prolific American Character actor best known for his performances in several films directed by Sam Ben "Son" Johnson Jr ( June 13 1918 – April 8 1996) was an American motion picture Actor, mainly Jerry Fielding (born June 17, 1922, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - died February 17, 1980, Toronto, Ontario from Lucien Ballard, ASC ( 6 May 1908 – 1 October 1988) was an American cinematographer and Director of photography Warner Bros-Seven Arts was formed in 1967, when Seven Arts Productions acquired Jack Warner 's controlling interest in Warner Bros Events 390 BC - Roman - Gaulish Wars Battle of the Allia - a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A director's cut is a specially edited version of a Film, and less often TV series, Music video, commercials or Video games English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The Western is a fiction Genre seen in Film, Television, Radio, Literature, Painting and other Visual arts. David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah (February 21 1925 &ndash December 28 1984 was an American Film director who achieved iconic status following the release The Wild Bunch was controversial, then notorious for its extremely explicit violence meant to convey the pain of gunshot wounds. The film features William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sánchez, Ben Johnson, Strother Martin, L.Q. Jones, Bo Hopkins and Dub Taylor. William Holden ( April 17, 1918 &ndash November 12, 1981) was an Academy Award -winning American film Actor Ermes Effron Borgnino (born January 24 1917 better known by his stage name Ernest Borgnine, is an American Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Edmond O'Brien (September 10 1915 – May 9 1985 was an American Film Actor who is perhaps best remembered for his role in D Warren Mercer Oates (July 5 1928 – April 3 1982 was a prolific American Character actor best known for his performances in several films directed by Sam Ben "Son" Johnson Jr ( June 13 1918 – April 8 1996) was an American motion picture Actor, mainly Strother Martin ( March 26, 1919 &ndash August 1, 1980) was an American Actor in numerous Films and LQ Jones (born August 19, 1927) is an American Character actor and Film director, known for his work in the films of Sam Peckinpah Bo Hopkins (born February 2, 1942 in Greenville, South Carolina) is an American actor Dub Taylor ( February 26, 1907 - October 3, 1994) was a prolific American Actor who worked extensively in Westerns [1]

The screenplay, by Walon Green, Roy N. Walon Green (born December 15, 1936) is an American Documentary film director and screenwriter for both TV and films Sickner, and Sam Peckinpah, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, while Jerry Fielding's score was nominated for Best Original Score. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material Jerry Fielding (born June 17, 1922, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - died February 17, 1980, Toronto, Ontario from The Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically Peckinpah was nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement by the Directors Guild of America. Directors Guild of America ( DGA) is the labor union which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States Lucien Ballard won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography. Lucien Ballard, ASC ( 6 May 1908 – 1 October 1988) was an American cinematographer and Director of photography The National Society of Film Critics or NSFC is an American Film critic organization [2] In 1999, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The National Film Registry is the registry of Films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of The Library of Congress is the De facto National library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress The film was ranked No. 80 in the American Film Institute's top 100 list of the greatest American films ever made and No. 69 as the most thrilling. The first of the AFI 100 Years series of cinematic milestones AFI's 100 Years The American Film Institute ( AFI) is an independent Non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 Part of the AFI 100 Years series, AFI's 100 Years 100 Thrills is a list of the top 100 thrilling movies in American cinema [3]

The Wild Bunch is noted for intricately edited action, using normal and slow motion shots from different camera angles, a revolutionary cinema technique in 1969. Slow motion is a technique in film-making whereby Time appears to be slowed down

Tagline: Unchanged men in a changing land. . . Out of step, out of place, and desperately out of time.

Contents

Plot

The Wild Bunch occurs at the Texas–Mexico border in 1913, the height of the Mexican Revolution. The Mexican Revolution (Revolución Mexicana was a major armed struggle that started with an uprising led by Francisco I An outlaw gang, "The Wild Bunch", ride into San Rafael, Texas, disguised as American Cavalrymen, led by Pike Bishop (William Holden) and Dutch Engstrom (Ernest Borgnine), they are Lyle Gorch (Warren Oates) and Tector Gorch (Ben Johnson), Angel (Jaime Sánchez), and Crazy Lee (Bo Hopkins). On entering town, they pass a group of children torturing a pair of scorpions placed atop a red anthill. They enter the railroad office to rob it; atop a hotel, a posse of ragged bounty hunters, led by Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan), await in ambush. A bounty hunter captures Fugitives for a monetary reward ( bounty) The gang spy the posse, then use a temperance union parade to aid their escape. See also Prohibition, Teetotalism The Temperance Movement attempted to reduce the amount of Alcohol consumed within a community or society in

A gunfight starts. The gang, the posse, and the parade are shot and killed in crossfire. The surviving outlaws escape to a village, where old man Freddie Sykes (Edmond O'Brien) awaits with fresh mounts. The railroad they robbed organised the ambush; the money bags yield only steel washers. During the escape shoot out, Pike saw Deke (formerly of the gang) leading the posse, likely freed from prison to pursue and kill his old gang.

Pike and the Bunch ride to Mexico to rest at Angel's village, Agua Verde (Green Water). From the town elder, Don José (Chano Urueta), Pike learns that Agua Verde is continually attacked by corrupt General Mapache (Emilio Fernández). "El Indio" Fernández (born Emilio Fernández Romo; March 26 1904 &ndash August 6 1986) was a Mexican actor screenwriter The Bunch ride to Mapache's headquarters to trade horses. Angel sees his old flame, Teresa; she is Gen. Mapache's concubine; jealously furious, Angel calls her ¡Puta! and shoots and kills her while she sits in the General's lap. Pike defuses the situation by offering to work with Mapache and his Imperial German Army advisers. The Bunch decide to rob a train transporting a U. S. Army gun shipment for ten thousand dollars in gold. Angel, frustrated with this agreement, privately insists he be allowed to steal a case of rifles for his village's for protection against Gen. Mapache; Pike and Dutch agree.

The Wild Bunch rob the train of the gun shipment, but Deke and his posse are secretly aboard. They pursue the Bunch to a bridge across the Rio Bravo into Mexico. The booby-trapped bridge dumps Deke and the posse into the river when dynamite explodes. Later, the Agua Verde villagers take their promised case of rifles.

Pike's cautious plan to deliver the remaining rifles and a machine gun to Geneneral Mapache is C. O. D. -- pairs of men paid in gold coin on delivering rifle cases at separate times. When Angel and Dutch arrive with the final shipment, General Mapache captures Angel, he having learned of the stolen rifles. Dutch rides away, leaving Angel behind.

The Bunch regroup in a canyon out of town, awaiting Sykes with the pack horses. From a distance, they see Deke and his posse shoot Sykes, who hides in a hill. Assuming Sykes dead, Pike, Dutch, Lyle, and Tector return to General Mapache's garrison to avoid Deke's posse. As they arrive, they see soldiers torturing Angel.

After a night of womanizing and drinking, Pike makes a fateful decision. Overcome with remorse about Angel, he tells Lyle and Tector, "Let's go. " Following a silent moment, Lyle replies, "Why not?" Dutch smiles, on grasping that they are to rescue Angel from General Mapache. The foursome load their shotguns and sidearms and, in the film's famous "long walk," head into town in unison to Mapache's headquarters.

They demand Angel's release; the drunken General Mapache personally cuts Angel's throat before them; Pike shoots and kills Mapache. The stunned Mexican Federal soldiers stand in uneasy silence. To their amazement, the Bunch see they can walk away unharmed. Instead, they instigate an epic gunfight with Mapache's men. During the battle, they control a machine gun, killing soldiers pell mell. Lyle and Tector are killed; Pike assumes the machine gun until he is shot in the back by a boy soldier; seeing this, Dutch runs to aid him, and falls shot, beside him.

The smoke cleared, Deke and the posse arrive to find the bodies of the Wild Bunch, his former comrades, surrounded by the dead Mexican soldiers. Saddened by their deaths, he takes Pike's six shooter pistol from its holster, and walks away with the memento. His posse identify the dead Wild Bunch, pack them atop horses, and leave with the bodies to collect the bounties. Deke remains behind, uncertain of what next; he hears distant gun shots. Moments later, the wounded Sykes and villagers from Agua Verde (Angel's village) ride up after having killed the posse. Sykes offers Deke the chance to participate in the Revolution, and stay in Mexico. Deke and Sykes begin laughing and ride off together.

Casting

Peckinpah considered many actors for the lead role of Pike Bishop. The part was originally written for Lee Marvin, but he declined because he thought it was too similar to his role in The Professionals (1966) and he was also offered a large sum to appear in Paint Your Wagon (1969). Lee Marvin ( February 19, 1924 &ndash August 29, 1987) was an American Film actor The Professionals is a 1966 Western movie directed by Richard Brooks. James Stewart, Gregory Peck and Charlton Heston (the lead in Peckinpah's Major Dundee) were considered before William Holden was cast. James Maitland Stewart (20 May 1908 – 2 July 1997 popularly known as Jimmy Stewart, was an American Film and stage Actor Gregory Peck (April 5 1916 &ndash June 12 2003 was an Academy Award -winning and four-time Golden Globe Award-winning American Film Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4 1923 &ndash April 5 2008) was an American Actor of Major Dundee was a 1965 Western film written by Harry Julian Fink and directed by Sam Peckinpah. [4][5]

The part of Deke Thornton was originally offered to Brian Keith, who had worked with Peckinpah on The Westerner (1960) and The Deadly Companions (1961). Brian Keith (November 14 1921 – June 24 1997 was an American stage film and television actor The Westerner is a 1960 Four Star Television Western Series on NBC created by Sam Peckinpah. The Deadly Companions is a 1961 Western. It was directed by Sam Peckinpah and starred Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Keith, committed to the popular TV series Family Affair, declined the role. A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U Family Affair is a Situation comedy Television series that aired on CBS from September 12 1966 to September 9 1971 The series explored the Also considered were Richard Harris (another Major Dundee veteran), Arthur Kennedy, Henry Fonda, Ben Johnson (who was later cast as Tector Gorch) and Van Heflin. Richard St John Harris ( October 1 1930 - October 25 2002) was a two-time Academy Award -nominated and Grammy Award Arthur Kennedy may be Arthur Kennedy (actor Arthur Edward Kennedy, British colonial administrator Henry Jaynes Fonda ( May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American Academy Award -winning Film and Ben "Son" Johnson Jr ( June 13 1918 – April 8 1996) was an American motion picture Actor, mainly Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr ( December 13, 1908 – July 23, 1971) was an Academy Award -winning American Robert Ryan would be cast based on his performance in The Dirty Dozen. The Dirty Dozen is a World War II action - War film directed by Robert Aldrich, from the novel by E [6]

Mario Adorf, who also appeared in Dundee, was considered for the part of Mapache, but the role ultimately went to Emilio Fernandez, the Mexican film director and actor who was a close friend of Peckinpah's. Mario Adorf (born September 8, 1930) is an Italian - German film and stage Actor, best known for his lead role in the 1978 "El Indio" Fernández (born Emilio Fernández Romo; March 26 1904 &ndash August 6 1986) was a Mexican actor screenwriter [7]

Among those considered to play Dutch Engstrom were Steve McQueen, George Peppard, Jim Brown, Alex Cord, Robert Culp, Sammy Davis, Jr., Charles Bronson and Richard Jaeckel. Terrence Steven "Steve" McQueen (March 24 1930 – November 7 1980 was an American movie Actor, nicknamed "The King of Cool" George Peppard Jr (October 1 1928 – May 8 1994) was an American Film and Television Actor. James Nathaniel "Jim" Brown (born February 17, 1936) is an American former professional football player who has also made Alex Cord ( May 3, 1933) is an American Actor who is perhaps best known for portraying the role of Archangel on the Television series Robert Martin Culp (born August 16 1930) is an American actor and scriptwriter perhaps best known for his work in Television. Samuel George “Sammy” Davis Jr (8 December 1925 &ndash 16 May 1990 was an American Entertainer. Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky, Lithuanian name Karolis Bučinskis, November 3, 1921 – August 30, Richard Hanley Jaeckel ( October 10, 1926 &ndash June 14, 1997) was an American actor Ernest Borgnine was eventually cast in the role, also based on his performance in The Dirty Dozen. [8]

Robert Blake was the original choice to play Angel, but he demanded too much money following the success of In Cold Blood (1967). Robert Blake (born September 18, 1933) is an American Actor most famous for starring in the U In Cold Blood is a film based on Truman Capote 's book of the same name. Peckinpah had seen Jaime Sanchez in the Broadway production of Sidney Lumet's The Pawnbroker and was so impressed that he demanded Sanchez be cast as Angel. Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located Sidney Lumet (born June 25 1924) is an Academy Award -receiving American Film director, with over 50 Films to his name The Pawnbroker is a novel by Edward Lewis Wallant which tells the story of Sol Nazerman a concentration camp survivor who suffers flashbacks [9]

Albert Dekker, best known as a theatre actor, was cast as Harrigan, the railroad detective. Albert Dekker ( December 20, 1905 &ndash May 5, 1968) was an American Character actor and Politician best He died a few months after filming was completed, and this was his last film.

Production

In 1967, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts producers Kenneth Hyman and Phil Feldman were interested in having Sam Peckinpah rewrite and direct an adventure film called The Diamond Story. Warner Bros-Seven Arts was formed in 1967, when Seven Arts Productions acquired Jack Warner 's controlling interest in Warner Bros A professional outcast due to the production difficulties of his previous film Major Dundee (1965) and his firing from the set of The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Peckinpah's stock had improved following his critically acclaimed work on the television film Noon Wine (1966). Major Dundee was a 1965 Western film written by Harry Julian Fink and directed by Sam Peckinpah. The Cincinnati Kid is a 1965 film It tells the story of Eric "The Kid" Stoner a young Depression -era Poker player as he seeks to Noon Wine is a 1937 short novel written by American author Katherine Anne Porter. An alternative screenplay available at the studio was The Wild Bunch, written by Roy Sickner and Walon Green. Walon Green (born December 15, 1936) is an American Documentary film director and screenwriter for both TV and films At the time, William Goldman's screenplay Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid had recently been purchased by 20th Century Fox. This article is about the screenwriter/novelist For the mathematician see William Goldman (professor. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a American Western film that tells the story of bank robbers Butch Cassidy (played by Paul Newman) and It was quickly decided that The Wild Bunch, which had several similarities to Goldman's work, would be produced in order to beat Butch Cassidy to the theaters. [10][11][12][13]

By the fall of 1967, Peckinpah was rewriting the screenplay and preparing for production. Filmed on location in Mexico, Peckinpah's epic work was inspired by his hunger to return to films, the violence seen in Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, America's growing frustration with the Vietnam War and what he perceived to be the utter lack of reality seen in Westerns up to that time. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Arthur Hiller Penn (born September 27, 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a Film director and producer. Bonnie and Clyde is a American Crime film about Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, the bank robbers who operated in the Central United States The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia The Western is a fiction Genre seen in Film, Television, Radio, Literature, Painting and other Visual arts. He set out to make a film which portrayed not only the vicious violence of the period, but the crude men attempting to survive the era. Multiple scenes attempted in Major Dundee, including slow motion action sequences (inspired by Akira Kurosawa's work in Seven Samurai), characters leaving a village as if in a funeral procession and the use of inexperienced locals as extras, would be perfected in The Wild Bunch. is a 1954 Japanese film co-written edited and directed by Akira Kurosawa. [14]

The film was shot in the anamorphic wide screen process. Anamorphic widescreen is a videographic technique utilising rectangular (wide pixels to store a Widescreen image to standard 43 aspect ratio. Peckinpah and his cinematographer, Lucien Ballard, also made use of a wide angle camera lens, one that allowed for objects and people in both the background and foreground to remain in sharp focus. Lucien Ballard, ASC ( 6 May 1908 – 1 October 1988) was an American cinematographer and Director of photography The effect is best seen in the shots where the Bunch make their "long walk" to Mapache's headquarters to free Angel. As they walk forward, a constant flow of people pass between them and the camera, yet are as sharply focused as the Bunch. The editing of the film is notable in that shots from multiple angles would be spliced together in rapid succession, often at different speeds, placing greater emphasis on the chaotic nature of the action and the gunfights.

Lou Lombardo, having previously worked with Peckinpah on Noon Wine, was personally hired by the director to edit The Wild Bunch. Peckinpah had wanted an editor who would be loyal to him. Lombardo's youth was also a plus, as he wasn't bound by traditional conventions. One of Lombardo's first contributions was to show Peckinpah an episode of the TV series Felony Squad he edited in 1967. Felony Squad is a half-hour television crime drama originally broadcast on the ABC network from September 12, 1966 to January The episode, entitled "My Mommy Got Lost," included a slow motion sequence where Joe Don Baker is shot by the police. Joe Don Baker (born February 12, 1936) is an American film actor perhaps best known for his roles as real-life Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser The scene mixed slow motion with normal speed. Peckinpah was reportedly thrilled and told Lombardo, "Let's try some of that when we get down to Mexico!" The director would film the major shootouts with six cameras, all operating a different film rates including 24 frames per second, 30 frames per second, 60 frames per second, 90 frames per second and 120 frames per second. When the scenes were eventually cut together, the action would shift from slow to fast to slower still, giving time an elastic quality never before seen in motion pictures up to that time. [15][16]

By the time filming wrapped, Peckinpah had shot 333,000 feet of film with 1,288 camera setups. Lombardo and Peckinpah remained in Mexico for six months editing the picture. After initial cuts, the opening gunfight sequence ran 21 minutes. Cutting frames from specific scenes and intercutting others, they were able to fine-cut the opening bank robbery down to five minutes. The creative montage became the model for the rest of the film and would forever change the way movies would be made. [17]

In 1993, Warner Brothers resubmitted the film to the MPAA ratings board prior to an expected rerelease. Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and The Motion Picture Association of America's film-rating system is used in the U To the studio's surprise, the originally R-rated film was given an NC-17, delaying the release until the decision was appealed. [18] The controversy was linked to 10 extra minutes added to the film. Warner Brothers trimmed some footage to decrease the running time to ensure additional daily screenings. [19] Today, almost all of the versions of The Wild Bunch include the missing scenes. Warner Brothers released a newly restored version of The Wild Bunch in a two-disc special edition on January 10, 2006. It includes an audio commentary by Peckinpah scholars, two documentaries concerning the making of the film and never-before-seen outtakes.

Sam Peckinpah and the making of The Wild Bunch was the subject of the documentary The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage (1996) directed by Paul Seydor. It was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Documentary Short Subject. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject [20]

Peckinpah stated that one of his goals for this movie was to give the audience "some idea of what it is to be gunned down. " A memorable incident occurred, to that end, as Peckinpah's crew were consulting him on the "gunfire" effects to be used in the film. Not satisfied with the results from the squibs his crew had brought for him, Peckinpah became exasperated; he finally hollered, "That's not what I want! That's not what I want!" Then he grabbed an actual revolver and fired it into a nearby wall. The gun empty, Peckinpah barked at his stunned crew: "THAT'S the effect I want!!" He also had the gunfire sound effects changed for the film. Before, all gunfire in Warner Brothers movies sounded the same. A gangster's . 38 Colt sounded like a cowboy's six gun which sounded like a World War Two movie's M-1 rifle, ect, ect. Peckinpah wanted, and got, each different type of firearm its own different sound effect when fired.

Themes

Critics of The Wild Bunch noted the theme of the end of the outlaw gunfighter era. Pike Bishop says: We've got to start thinking beyond our guns. Those days are closing fast. The Bunch live by an anachronistic code of honour without a place in twentieth century modern society. When they inspect General Mapache's new automobile, they perceive it marks the end of horse travel, a symbol also in Peckinpah's Ride the High Country (1962) and The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970). Ride the High Country is a noted 1962 Western film. It stars Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" is also the title of a song by Calexico. [21]

The violence that was much criticized by critics in 1969 remains controversial. Director Peckinpah noted it was allegoric of the American war against Vietnam, whose violence was nightly televised to American homes at supper time. He tried showing the gun violence commonplace to the historic western frontier period, rebelling against sanitised, bloodless television westerns and films glamourising gun fights and murder. The point of the film is to take this façade of movie violence and open it up, get people involved in it so that they are starting to go in the Hollywood television predictable reaction syndrome, and then twist it so that it's not fun anymore, just a wave of sickness in the gut . . . It's ugly, brutalizing, and bloody awful; it's not fun and games and cowboys and Indians. It's a terrible, ugly thing, and yet there's a certain response that you get from it, an excitement, because we're all violent people. Peckinpah used violence as catharsis, believing his audience would be purged of violence, by witnessing it explicitly on screen. He later admitted to being mistaken, that the audience came to enjoy rather than be horrified by his films' violence, something that troubled him. [22]

Betrayal is the secondary theme of The Wild Bunch. Characters suffer their knowledge of having betrayed a friend and left him to his fate, thus violating their own honour code when it suits them. Such frustration leads to the film's violent conclusion, as the remaining men find intolerable the abandonment of Angel. Pike Bishop remembers his betrayals, most notably when he deserts Deke Thornton (in flashback) when the law catches up to them; and when he abandons Crazy Lee at the bank after the robbery (ostensibly to guard the hostages).

Variant versions

The movie is called Pipe Dreams in some countries (particularly in the Middle East), causing confusion with the 1996 comedy film Down Periscope, which is also called Pipe Dreams. Down Periscope is a 1996 comedy movie starring Kelsey Grammer as the captain of a rust-bucket submarine called the USS ''Stingray'', (referred

In addition, there have been several versions of The Wild Bunch released:

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