Product Information
Sam Peckinpah's controversial portrayal of a battle between a ruthless Mexican revolutionary and Texan bandits.Product Identifiers
ProducerPhil Feldman
EAN7321900140348
eBay Product ID (ePID)3939400
Product Key Features
ActorEmilio Fernandez, Edmond O'brien, Ben Johnson, Strother Martin, Robert Ryan, Warren Oates, Ernest Borgnine, William Holden, Albert Dekker, L.Q. Jones
Film/TV TitleThe Wild Bunch (Director's Cut)
DirectorSam Peckinpah
LanguageEnglish
Subtitle LanguageArabic\English
Run Time138 Mins
Aspect Ratio2.35 Wide Screen
FormatDVD
Release Year2005
FeaturesInteractive Menus\Production Notes\Scene Access\Documentary, Widescreen, Closed Caption, With Subtitles
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate18
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
ComposerJerry Fielding
ReviewsVariety - ...Virtually every character in THE WILD BUNCH is a fully fleshed-out, complex portrait of humanity....It's a tale that is just as important and pertinent as ever..., Entertainment Weekly - "...Engrossing entertainment." -- Rating: B+, USA Today - ...There's never been a greater movie about loyalty among men than this...
Additional InformationAs 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.
Art DirectorEdward Carrere
ScreenwriterWalon Green, Sam Peckinpah
AuthorRoy N. Sickner
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1
Format DescriptionDVD 10
Movie/TV TitleThe Wild Bunch (Director's Cut)
EditorLou Lombardo
Director of PhotographyLucien Ballard