The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut DVD
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790731032
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790731037
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: WARD14034D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 21, 1997
Running Time: 134 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1969
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Sam Peckinpah's Wild Bunch 1969 is a modern masterpiece
that should be seen with Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven 1992 as
two sides of the coin of explorations of violence and the
code of loyalty in the West.
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This is the best Western ever made, The acting, The story and the Direction are the very best, Everytime I watch this Movie I realize just how special it is. If you love great movies BUY THIS ONE
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In reading most of the reviews for this movie. I am struck by the absence of any mention of Ernest Borgnine's character Dutch's very strong homosexual feelings for Pike(W.Holden). Peckinpah is very clear in this portrayal. From Dutch not going into the brothel just before the "walk" till Dutch's final words "Pike". I'm straight so this isn't a commentary about homosexuality it is just a commentary about homosexuality not being mentioned in the Amazon reviews.
ALso, this is one of my favorite ... Read More
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This DVD was ordered for my son. He absolutely loves the DVD. He has never been sorry for any DVD I have ordered from you. He has always been delighted and I am sure there will be others than he wants me to order. So until the next order.......
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Good William Holden movie and one of Sam Peckenpah's best. Great action scenes and photography. Good performances by all the actors's.
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Editorial Review:
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DIRECTOR SAM PECKINPAH'S MASTERPIECE IS A WORLD CLASS WESTERN,NOTABLE FOR ITS DARING CINEMATOGRAPHY AND LANDMARK VIOLENCE.
Amazon.com essential video:
Here's how director Sam Peckinpah described his motivation behind The Wild Bunch at the time of the film's 1969 release: "I was trying to tell a simple story about bad men in changing times. The Wild Bunch is simply what happens when killers go to Mexico. The strange thing is you feel a great sense of loss when these killers reach the end of the line." All of these statements are true, but they don't begin to cover the impact that Peckinpah's film had on the evolution of American movies. Now the film is most widely recognized as a milestone event in the escalation of screen violence, but that's a label of limited perspective. Of course, Peckinpah's bloody climactic gunfight became a masterfully directed, photographed, and edited ballet of graphic violence that transcended the conventional Western and moved into a slow-motion realm of pure cinematic intensity. But the film--surely one of the greatest Westerns ever made--is also a richly thematic tale of, as Peckinpah said, "bad men in changing times." The year is 1913 and the fading band of thieves known as the Wild Bunch (led by William Holden as Pike) decide to pull one last job before retirement. But an ambush foils their plans, and Peckinpah's film becomes an epic yet intimate tale of betrayed loyalties, tenacious rivalry, and the bunch's dogged determination to maintain their fading code of honor among thieves. The 144-minute director's cut enhances the theme of male bonding that recurs in many of Peckinpah's films, restoring deleted scenes to deepen the viewer's understanding of the friendship turned rivalry between Pike and his former friend Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan), who now leads a posse in pursuit of the bunch, a dimension that adds resonance to an already classic American film. The Wild Bunch is a masterpiece that should not be defined strictly in terms of its violence, but as a story of mythic proportion, brimming with rich characters and dialogue and the bittersweet irony of outlaw traditions on the wane. --Jeff Shannon
Amazon.com:
One of the best action movies ever made, in a cleaned-up print restoring crucial parts of the story. No cavalry ever rode in with more epochal impact than the Wild Bunch in the legendary opening scene. Their steel-eyed leader, Pike (William Holden), and his robbers in stolen army uniforms help an old lady across the street, and then spark a massacre led by Pike's old crony Thornton (Robert Ryan), sprung from jail to hunt down his old gang. In just a few minutes, Sam Peckinpah sets the scene--a dusty Texas town in 1913--sketches a dozen vividly individualized characters, and choreographs one of the most realistic, influential, brilliantly photographed shootouts under the pitiless sun. The cast is superb (even Ernest Borgnine!), the dialog crackling, the bitterly ambiguous moral of the story hard-earned. It's the deeper, dark flip side to 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Consider buying the letterbox Wild Bunch, the review collection Doing It Right, and the Peckinpah bio "If They Move... Kill 'Em!" --Tim Appelo
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