The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut
by Sam Peckinpah
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Actor: Edmond O'Brien, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Warren Oates, William HoldenDirector: Sam Peckinpah
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard
Writer: Sam Peckinpah
Editor: Lou Lombardo
Producer: Phil Feldman
Producer: Roy N. Sickner
Writer: Roy N. Sickner
Writer: Walon Green
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 145 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1997-05-21
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Summary of The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut
DIRECTOR SAM PECKINPAH'S MASTERPIECE IS A WORLD CLASS WESTERN,NOTABLE FOR ITS DARING CINEMATOGRAPHY AND LANDMARK VIOLENCE.Here's how director Sam Peckinpah described his motivation behind The Wild Bunch at the time of the film's 1969 release: "I was trying to tell a simple story about bad men in changing times. The Wild Bunch is simply what happens when killers go to Mexico. The strange thing is you feel a great sense of loss when these killers reach the end of the line." All of these statements are true, but they don't begin to cover the impact that Peckinpah's film had on the evolution of American movies. Now the film is most widely recognized as a milestone event in the escalation of screen violence, but that's a label of limited perspective. Of course, Peckinpah's bloody climactic gunfight became a masterfully directed, photographed, and edited ballet of graphic violence that transcended the conventional Western and moved into a slow-motion realm of pure cinematic intensity. But the film--surely one of the greatest Westerns ever made--is also a richly thematic tale of, as Peckinpah said, "bad men in changing times." The year is 1913 and the fading band of thieves known as the Wild Bunch (led by William Holden as Pike) decide to pull one last job before retirement. But an ambush foils their plans, and Peckinpah's film becomes an epic yet intimate tale of betrayed loyalties, tenacious rivalry, and the bunch's dogged determination to maintain their fading code of honor among thieves. The 144-minute director's cut enhances the theme of male bonding that recurs in many of Peckinpah's films, restoring deleted scenes to deepen the viewer's understanding of the friendship turned rivalry between Pike and his former friend Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan), who now leads a posse in pursuit of the bunch, a dimension that adds resonance to an already classic American film. The Wild Bunch is a masterpiece that should not be defined strictly in terms of its violence, but as a story of mythic proportion, brimming with rich characters and dialogue and the bittersweet irony of outlaw traditions on the wane. --Jeff Shannon
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