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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391142669
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Running Time: 145 minutes
Sales Rank: 4352
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1969
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Director Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch is a powerful tale of hang-dog desperados bound by a code of honor. It is said that The Wild Bunch rates as one of the all-time greatest Westerns, perhaps one of the greatest of all films
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
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Good violent western
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.
Rating:  - "If They Move, Kill 'Em!"
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Wild Bunch
Saw this movie back in the 70's and have loved it ever since. Peckinpah excels here as do the actors and their performances. Holdens character is the most memorable
Rating:  - Overrated
Director Sam Peckinpah's two hour and twenty-five minute long 1969 Western classic, The Wild Bunch, is certainly an influential and important film, but, compared to the other great Western released that year, Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time In The West, it has not held up nearly as well. There are several reasons for this fact, and by making that statement I am not stating that Peckinpah's film is in any way a bad film. No. It's merely a good film that has been passed by later films, and lacks the depth Leone's film still does. Part of the reason is that Leone's film is far more stylized and revolutionary. No, that film is not nearly as violent as Peckinpah's, and it is the violence of The Wild Bunch (and occasionally claims of its mainstreaming slow motion cinematography mixed with quick cutting) that is usually the lynchpin to arguments for its revolutionary status, not its more straightforward and derivative storytelling; although the earlier Bonnie And Clyde, by director Arthur Penn, deserves more of the credit (or blame) for mainstreaming over the top and slow motion violence.
Compare the openings of the two films. In Peckinpah's film there is the great opening montage where the heroes/villains are introduced, and then the action is frozen into a black and white image. We see children sadistically dropping scorpions on to red anthills, then setting the wee creatures ablaze. Then we see the heroes, dressed as good guy American soldiers become vicious killers as they rob a bank, then get ... Read More
Rating:  - Look At What "Bonnie and Clyde" Did!
This Original Director's Cut version of "The Wild Bunch" is a real treat as they did an excellent job with the restoration and especially with the sound quality as the Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround sound is excellent although despite heroic attempts at picture quality restoration, there are many white spots and other imperfections in a number of frames. Hopefully the Blu-ray version took the opportunity to clean these up.
This is a good adventure flick although I do call its originality into question when quite obviously this film borrows from a number of other films that shortly preceded it. For the violence that begins and ends the movie see "Bonnie and Clyde"; for the theme of outlaws becoming obsolete and hence wanting to make that one big job and then "retiring" see "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". See the same for the use of a modern sounding soundtrack for an anachronistic effect as at some points the score reminded me of an old 70s police drama effect, frontal nudity "The Graduate" etc.
However, just because this film borrowed heavily from themes that were originally shown by films that just preceded it doesn't make this in any way a bad film but it does in my mind put some perspective into it and hopefully remove some of the hype that accompanies it. Although a good western, this is certainly not the best ever; for that you'll need to watch "Unforgiven" and even "High Noon" and "Butch Cassidy ... Kid" not to mention "Stagecoach" are a lot better than this. ... Read More
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