The Wild Bunch
1969 | Western | USA | Directed by Sam Peckinpah
Overview
Aging outlaws ride into 1913 where the railroad hires the killers and the old codes are receipts. The opening shootout and the final walk turned violence into ballet with six cameras and masterful editing, scandalizing 1969 and inventing the modern action aesthetic. Holden and Borgnine give it the weary heart. The western that buried the myth it rode in on.
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