The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film

 

(Santa Fe New Mexican) … The Wild Bunch, set in 1913, crafts a story of an American West in decline. There, a band of six outlaws and killers have outlived their time, and the ubiquitous signs of progress — automobiles and machine guns and modern hand grenades — are at odds with the way they understand their world and their place in it.
In this gritty masterpiece, the men, led by William Holden and Ernest Borgnine, look for one last score, but find themselves thrust into the Mexican Revolution and on the run. Continued