The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)

The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Sam Peckinpah

The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Actor: Albert Dekker, Alfonso Arau, Elsa C?rdenas, Emilio Fern?ndez, Ernest Borgnine
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Brand: HOLDEN,WILLIAM
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; German (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 145 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-10
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
  • Outlaws on the Mexican-U.S. frontier face the march of progress, the Mexican army and a gang of bounty hunters led by a former member while they plan a robbery of a U.S. army train. No one is innocent in this gritty tale of of desperation against changing times. Pump shotguns, machine guns and automobiles mix with horses and winchesters in this ultraviolent western. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:&n

Movie Reviews of The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Movie Review: A great film faithfully reproduced.
Summary: 5 Stars

My reviews of blu-rays here are primarily about the transfer quality and getting your money's worth. I'm pleased to report that this is a superb transfer that does justice to the film, and definitely worth buying. As for the film itself, I can't add much to the praise that has been written below. It is a western classic, a great film, and it still holds up well after forty years. I'm old enough to have seen the original, and even then I was puzzled by all the reviews about the violence in the film. It didn't strike me as particularly gory then, and certainly not now considering what is routine on the screen, or on CSI for that matter. The actors are all in top form, the narrative is brisk, and an aching irony permeates the end of the film. It is well worth watching again and again, and surely is Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece. Some have noted Butch Cassidy coming out the same year. That was a corny, contrived film with an overlay of a dopey song that is a mouse compared to a lion as far as the Wild Bunch is concerned. It is totally obsolete while the Wild Bunch is timeless.

Summary of The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Outlaws on the Mexican-U.S. frontier face the march of progress, the Mexican army and a gang of bounty hunters led by a former member while they plan a robbery of a U.S. army train. No one is innocent in this gritty tale of of desperation against changing times. Pump shotguns, machine guns and automobiles mix with horses and winchesters in this ultraviolent western.
One of the best action movies ever made, in a cleaned-up print restoring crucial parts of the story. No cavalry ever rode in with more epochal impact than the Wild Bunch in the legendary opening scene. Their steel-eyed leader, Pike (William Holden), and his robbers in stolen army uniforms help an old lady across the street, and then spark a massacre led by Pike's old crony Thornton (Robert Ryan), sprung from jail to hunt down his old gang. In just a few minutes, Sam Peckinpah sets the scene--a dusty Texas town in 1913--sketches a dozen vividly individualized characters, and choreographs one of the most realistic, influential, brilliantly photographed shootouts under the pitiless sun. The cast is superb (even Ernest Borgnine!), the dialog crackling, the bitterly ambiguous moral of the story hard-earned. It's the deeper, dark flip side to 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Consider buying the letterbox Wild Bunch, the review collection Doing It Right, and the Peckinpah bio "If They Move... Kill 'Em!" --Tim Appelo
One of the best action movies ever made, in a cleaned-up print restoring crucial parts of the story. No cavalry ever rode in with more epochal impact than the Wild Bunch in the legendary opening scene. Their steel-eyed leader, Pike (William Holden), and his robbers in stolen army uniforms help an old lady across the street, and then spark a massacre led by Pike's old crony Thornton (Robert Ryan), sprung from jail to hunt down his old gang. In just a few minutes, Sam Peckinpah sets the scene--a dusty Texas town in 1913--sketches a dozen vividly individualized characters, and choreographs one of the most realistic, influential, brilliantly photographed shootouts under the pitiless sun. The cast is superb (even Ernest Borgnine!), the dialog crackling, the bitterly ambiguous moral of the story hard-earned. It's the deeper, dark flip side to 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Consider buying the letterbox Wild Bunch, the review collection Doing It Right, and the Peckinpah bio "If They Move... Kill 'Em!" --Tim Appelo

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