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Wild Bunch Peckinpah & Holden
Director Sam Peckinpah and actor William Holden on the set of The Wild Bunch (1969)

The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American epic Western Technicolor and Panavision movie directed by Sam Peckinpah about an aging outlaw gang on the Texas–Mexico border, trying to exist in the changing modern world of 1913. The movie was controversial because of its graphic violence and its portrayal of crude men attempting to survive by any available means.

The movie, whose screenplay was written by Peckinpah and Walon Green, stars William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Ben Johnson, Alfonso Arau and Warren Oates. It was filmed in Mexico.

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  • Wild Bunch Agua Verde

    The director sets up the climactic gun battle sequences at "Agua Verde" (the Hacienda Ciénaga del Carmen).

  • Wild Bunch still opening scene

    Peckinpah (far right) directs the opening scene as the Bunch ride into Starbuck.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: The Wild Bunch para niños

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