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The Wild Bunch (1969)
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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...
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Seen as one of the greatest movies ever made, this is a masculine film through and through. Yet unlike many westerns, it has an actual plot and incredibly believable violence.
The performances by William Holden and Ernest Borgnine ground the film in emotion as well as examining the friendships between men.
This is a...
(complete The Wild Bunch review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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