In its 145 minute runtime, Sam Peckinpah's elegiac Western "The Wild Bunch" tipped its hat to a bygone era while ushering in a new cinematic one. Near the Mexican-American border, a band of fading outlaws — that's Pike Bishop (William Holden), Dutch Engstrom (Ernest Borgnine), and the brothers Gorch ( Warren Oates and Ben Johnson), a decimation of their former crew — reckon with the shift towards modernity and away from the old days of the West in 1913. What was supposed to be one last score for the aging gang goes sour, but they do not go gentle...
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