Comic Book Superhero Store - The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut

	List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $13.49 Your Save: $ 1.49 ( 10% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Starring: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates Directed By: Sam Peckinpah
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790731032 Format: Closed-captioned ISBN: 0790731037 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Letterbox Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: 1997-05-21 Running Time: 134 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1969
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Editorial Reviews: Director sam peckinpahs masterpiece is a world class western notable for its daring cinematography and landmark violence. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/07/2005 Starring: William Holden Run time: 145 minutes Rating: R Director: Sam Peckinpah
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: ONE OF THE GREATEST WESTERN'S EVER MADE!!!! Comment: ONE OF THE GREATEST WESTERNS EVER MADE!!! BOTTOM LINE....UNFORGIVEN COMES CLOSE TO IT ON THAT SCALE BUT "THE WILD BUNCH" SET THE STANDARD IN THIS MOVIE GENRE AND NO OTHER WESTERN HAS SINCE EQUALED IT'S MAGNIFICENCE AND EXCELLENCE IN MOVIE PRODUCTION. TRULY EPIC!!!! Customer Rating: Summary: The Wild Bunch Comment: I RETURNED THIS ITEM ON NOVEMBER 19TH AND I'M STILL WAITING TO RECEIVE THEIR RECEIPT CONFIRMATION!!!!!!!!!!! Customer Rating: Summary: scorpion on fire Comment: The mood of this great film is set during one of the first scenes. Children who are supposedly not the focus of the action, pit a war between red ants and a scorpion. Then, as the scorpion is being thorougly tortured by the ants, the children heap straw on the battle, ignite it and burn the scorpion and ants alive. This one scene gives Peckinpah's personal social philosophy full issue. Peckinpah reckoned [correctly, in my opinion] that violence and cruelty are products of our basic genetics. Civilization therefore requires the civilizing of children. 'The Wild Bunch', however, is a testimony to the fact that some people never achieve full civilization. His characters rob and murder as if they were virtues. The 'hero', William Holden, is made of somewhat better stuff in that he understands some of the 'inadequacies' of his men. Still, like all good Peckinpah films, the film ultimately succombs to total chaos and violence as Holden's men--who don't stand a chance--decide to shoot it out with Mexican Irregulares. I first saw this film, years ago, when taking State Licensure Boards for my Medical License. Other students stayed up all night studying. I was just as uptight as anyone else but reckoned that, after 4 years of study, another night wouldn't make any real difference but relaxation might. Peckinpah's violence--in a way that Peckinpah would have predicted--was just the relaxation I required. I did just fine with my exams. Ron Braithwaite, author of novels--"Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico Customer Rating: Summary: Good violent western Comment: I put this in my top 25 greatest westerns. Lots of good actors. Lots of shoot em up. Vengeance is the driving force of the story. Good sub plots. Will be or is a western classic. I bought the box set of Sam Peckinpah's western. Was worth the price for 4 movies and free delivery. Customer Rating: Summary: "If They Move, Kill 'Em!" Comment: This line, spoken by William Holden's character Pike Bishop, is about the important thing you need to know about "The Wild Bunch"; just as "Bonnie and Clyde" was summed up by the line 'We rob banks', "The Graduate" with 'Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?', and "Cool Hand Luke" with 'What we have here is a failure to communicate' (strangely enough, Holden's line is then followed by the subtitle 'Director by Sam Peckinpah' as if the director saw this as an opportunity for some film scholar to ever do a montage of his career). What an unbelievable movie. I think this one surpassed Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" as the greatest western I ever saw. The climax of when the characters get blooded up is a testiment that the 60's was ending in chaos and uncertainty (the same is about to happen for this decade) and the director gave moviegoers in 1969 a reminder of how John F. Kennedy and 40,000 American soldiers in Vietnam died: From a sea of bullets. Great acting from Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Edmond O' Brien, Jaime Sanchez, Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, and Strother Martin (the same one that said the famous line in "Cool Hand Luke" that I just mentioned). But the real star of this movie is Robert Ryan-who plays Dee Thorton; who is in the Bunch until he was kicked off and now he plots revenge. It is a shock as to why Ryan did not get an Oscar nomination that year for Best Supporting Actor for this film (how can they give one to Danny Kaye and not to him?). Take for example the scene at the end in which he arrives after the shooting. If you look real carefully he's smirking as if he's saying, 'I did it! I finally got revenge without laying a finger!'. Without question one of the three 60's performances that should of been nominated (the other two were James Coburn for "The President's Analyst" and Joseph Cotten for "Petulia"; who like Ryan, his career was wasted by not having an Oscar nomination). And speaking of that, it was also an outrage for the Academy to give "Hello Dolly" and "Anne of a The Thousand Days" Best Picture nominations when it should of gone to this movie and "Easy Rider". My favorite scene in this movie was definally the train sequence in which Dutch (Borgnine) emerges from the barrel and points a rifle at the Mexican troops as he smiles. That gave me chills so much that if they ever do a montage of film moments in the 60's, the moment in which Borgnine smiles would be in it. Then there's the violence. Listening to the bullets going off, I couldn't help but think about the other movie of that time "Bonnie and Clyde". What gets lost is the fact this film has more nudity than the Best Picture winner of that year "Midnight Cowboy" (it was first rated X and to my knowledge, there's not a SINGLE nude scene!). Above all, this is a great movie. As what narrator Kris Kristofferson said in the documentary "Sam Peckinpah's West" (that is featured in the DVD): "'The Wild Bunch' not only changed Sam Peckinpah's life. It also changed moviegoers that saw the film." More Reviews

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