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The Wild Bunch
William Holden
The Wild Bunch
William Holden
As a counterpoint to the heroic horde of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, the ageing gunmen of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece break the very laws of honour which bind them in this bloody and meditative tale of the American West widely considered to be the self-conscious nail in the coffin of the genre. William Holden, Robert Ryan, and Ernest Borgnine star as the leaders of a grizzled crew of Texan bandits who ride to Mexico, where, one by one, they are unceremoniously slaughtered by a Mexican revolutionary. The western, a genre steeped in legend and the concept of loyalty, was a dying breed when Sam Peckinpah unleashed this amoral and violent opus. Along with BONNIE AND CLYDE, it ushered in a new breed of Hollywood film, depicting a harsh reality where lines between right and wrong became blurred. Peckinpah brilliantly used ageing Western stars such as Ryan and Holden to convey this passing of the cinematic torch. The film brought issues of violence and morality in movies to the forefront of American film criticism. Instead of appreciating the film as a critique of brutal violence, many critics responded by rejecting what they saw as a superfluous spectacle of dead bodies.
Media | Movies DVD |
Number of discs | 2 |
Released | 2023 |
EAN/UPC | 7321900705936 |
Label | Warner Bros D070593 |
Genre | Westerns |
Dimensions | 260 g (Weight (estimated)) |
Region code | Region 2 (Europa) |
Language | English Spanish French |
Primary Contributor | Albert Dekker |
Primary Contributor | William Holden |
Skuespiller | Ernest Borgnine |
Skuespiller | Warren Oates |
Skuespiller | William Holden |
Skuespiller | Robert Ryan |
Skuespiller | Albert Dekker |
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