What is The Wild Bunch?
{{italictitle}} [[File:Wild Bunch Peckinpah & Holden.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Director [[Sam Peckinpah]] and actor [[William Holden]] on the set of ''The Wild Bunch'' (1969)]] '''''The Wild Bunch''''' is a 1969 American [[epic movie|epic]] [[Western (genre)|Western]] [[Technicolor]] and [[Panavision]] movie directed by [[Sam Peckinpah]]<ref>''[[Variety Film Reviews|Variety]]'' film review; June 18, 1969, p. 6.</ref> about an aging outlaw gang on the [[Mexico–United States border|Texas–Mexico border]], trying to exist in the changing [[Modernity|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.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Armour|first1=Philip|title=The 100 Greatest Western Movies of All Time: Including Five You've Never Heard of|date=June 2011|publisher=Performing Arts|isbn=978-0-7627-6996-4|page=15|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eHQd9M569k8C&dq=the+wild+bunch+release+violence+controversy&pg=PA15|access-date=6 October 2014}}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The movie, whose screenplay was written by Peckinpah and [[Walon Green]], stars [[William Holden]], [[Robert Ryan]], [[Ernest Borgnine]], [[Ben Johnson (actor)|Ben Johnson]], [[Alfonso Arau]] and [[Warren Oates]]. It was filmed in [[Mexico]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wild Bunch, The}} [[Category:1969 movies]] [[Category:1960s Western (genre) movies]] [[Category:American epic movies]] [[Category:American Western (genre) movies]] [[Category:Movies set in the 1910s]] [[Category:Movies set in Mexico]] [[Category:Movies directed by Sam Peckinpah]] {{movie-stub}}