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| The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) | 
 enlarge | Actors: Alfonso Arau, Ernest Borgnine, Elsa Cardenas, Albert Dekker, Emilio Fernandez
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  218 reviews
Sales Rank: 4319
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 134
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: WARD70593D
ISBN: 1419810766
UPC: 012569705937
EAN: 9781419810763
ASIN: B000BT96CS
Theatrical Release Date: 1969
Release Date: January 10, 2006
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/23/2006
Amazon.com essential video
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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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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| Customer Reviews: Read 213 more reviews...
 Exactly what I needed! January 6, 2009
This was exactly what I needed as a gift for my father...it arrived with plenty of time before Christmas, too!
ONE OF THE GREATEST WESTERN'S EVER MADE!!!! December 24, 2008
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!!!!
 The Wild Bunch December 12, 2008
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
I RETURNED THIS ITEM ON NOVEMBER 19TH AND I'M STILL WAITING TO RECEIVE THEIR RECEIPT CONFIRMATION!!!!!!!!!!!
scorpion on fire December 5, 2008
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
 Good violent western October 15, 2008
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.
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