The Wild Bunch | Final Shootout: Battle of Bloody Porch | Warner Classics
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Published 2024-07-08
About The Wild Bunch (1969):
The master of the American western, Sam Peckinpah, directs a stellar cast in The Wild Bunch, a controversial film that breathed new life into the genre and broke ground in the realistic portrayal of screen violence.
Receiving two Academy Award nominations, this bitter, brutal story of magnificent losers in a dying West remains one of the screen's all-time classics. An explosive adventure drama about the last of the legendary lawless breed who lived to kill—and killed to live.
The impeccable cast includes William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien. Warren Oates and Ben Johnson.
Selected by the prestigious American Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest American Films of all time, The Wild Bunch was also inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry.
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All Comments (21)
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Nothing and no one will ever surpass this unbelievable legendary ending. One of my alltime faves. RIP William, Ernest, Warren, Ben.
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The greatest movie shootout of ALL time! It will NEVER be surpassed! Especially not in this day and age.
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A lot of people never ralized what a fine dramatic actor Ernest Borgnine was
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Sam Peckinpah deserves credit for popularizing the slow-motion shootout.
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Gritty, dusty, sweaty, dirty and bloody, this movie made an impact on me more than 45 years ago when I first watched it. It was so rough, raw and brutal it seemed realistic and it worked. The cast was PACKED with great actors as well. The final shootout scene brought an epic end to the story of four villains/heroes who in the end went out in a blaze of glory attempting to do what was right.
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Saw it at the movies when it came out in 1969 I was 14. My dad had to be with me. Still a classic.
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An absolute classic I never get sick of watching this film
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This is the best scene of this fantastic movie. "¿What do you want?". "We want Ángel". Y ya está. P.D. It's missing a scene where the girl shoots Pike in the back, in the room with the mirror. Warner Bros. doesn't want to show girls doing that, but we all do remember it. And there is another where one of the Gorch brothers shoot a girl in the confusion in the room in the dark.
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Can you imagine making a movie like this these days? I cant, this can never be topped, and i never want to see them do a remake
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Ever since Shane I've been a huge Ben Johnson fan. He was the real deal. Wrangler turned extra that got an Oscar. And don't get me started on Warren, William and Ernie. What a foursome.
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There has never been that can match this shootout in a movie. This is shootout is beyond comparison.
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No words spoken. They came out, they looked at him -- it was time to roll.
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My second favorite western next to Magnificent 7
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Golden age of Movies and will never be done again.
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Best western ever made, I first watched this when I was a kid growing up, it's my bench mark for what a proper western should be.
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John Ford elevated the western genre from two reel B movies when he made the great Stagecoach in 1939; thirty years later, Sam Pekinpah reinterpreted the genre in another masterpiece.
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" Come on, you lazy bastard!"
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I saw that movie back in 1970 . The best western ever . William Holden , undoubtedly, but, definitely, set the highest standard.
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One of the finest films ever made
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I loved this movie because of Borgnine's portrayal of his character. It reminded me of his commercials he starred in for the "Post Office". They would all have him engaged in some serious street brawls. He is punching, throwing folks and in general cleaning house. When in the middle of the scene, he would stop fighting. Guy at his feet almost knocked out, bloodied, battered and exhausted. When Borgnine would say something like this; "After something as strenuous as this the only thing that soothes my nerves, is to work on my stamp collection". Then he would pull the stamp of the month from his pocket and display it for all to see. Then some voice over would say something like "Even tough guys collect stamps. Those commercials just broke me up.
