Synopsis
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
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Cast
- William HoldenPike Bishop
- Ernest BorgnineDutch Engstrom
- Robert RyanDeke Thornton
- Jaime SánchezAngel
- Warren OatesLyle Gorch
- Edmond O'BrienFreddie Sykes
- Ben JohnsonTector Gorch
- Albert DekkerPat Harrigan
- Strother MartinCoffer
- Emilio FernándezGen. Mapache
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Reader
The on-screen carnage established a new level in American movies, but few of the films that followed in its wake could duplicate Peckinpah's depth of feeling. - 100
Chicago Sun-Times
The Wild Bunch is one of the great defining moments of modern movies. - 100
The New Yorker
It’s no accident that you feel a sense of loss for each killer of the Bunch: Peckinpah has made them seem heroically, mythically alive on the screen. - 100
Orlando Sentinel
It is certainly one of the best westerns ever made, and the best film of any kind to come out in 1969. - 100
Rolling Stone
The hard action, bracing wit and mournful grace of Peckinpah’s cowboy classic shames every new movie around. It’s a towering achievement that grows more riveting and resonant with the years. - 100
ReelViews
Not only does The Wild Bunch illustrate Peckinpah's mastery of his medium, but it presents a story that is effective on nearly every level: the emotional, the visual, and the visceral. - 100
San Francisco Chronicle
Maybe the best shoot-'em-up ever made, the one that turned meanness into a haunting pictorial poetry and summed up the corruption of guilt, old age and death in the American fantasy of the Old West. - 90
Newsweek
The Wild Bunch still retains its sorrowful, fatal power because of the complexity of Peckinpah's attitudes about violence. He forces us to confront our own voyeuristic ambivalence; we're alternately horrified by the butchery and exhilarated by the orgiastic energy his balletic spectacles stir up.
