Release Date: 8/22/1997 Original Release: 1969 Format: DVD Length: 145 minutes Rating:R (MPAA) Rating Reason: (Reason unavailable) UPC: 085391403425 Studio: Warner Home Video
As a counterpoint to the heroic horde of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, the aging gunmen of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece break the very laws of honor which bind them in this bloody and meditative tale of the American West--widely considered to be the self-conscious nail in the coffin of the genre. William Holden, Robert Ryan, and Ernest Borgnine star as the leaders of a grizzled crew of Texan bandits who ride to Mexico, where, one by one, they are unceremoniously slaughtered by a Mexican revolutionary.
The western, a genre steeped in legend and the concept of loyalty, was a dying breed when Sam Peckinpah unleashed this amoral and violent opus. Along with BONNIE AND CLYDE, it ushered in a new breed of Hollywood film, depicting a harsh reality where lines between right and wrong became blurred. Peckinpah brilliantly used aging Western stars such as Ryan and Holden to convey this passing of the cinematic torch. The film brought issues of violence and morality in movies to the forefront of American film criticism. Instead of appreciating the film as a critique of brutal violence, many critics responded by rejecting what they saw as a superfluous spectacle of dead bodies.
DVD Features
Region 1 Snap Case Director's Cut Full Frame - 1.33 Letterbox - 2.35 Widescreen - 2.35 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Additional Release Material: Documentary: The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage Trailers: Theatrical Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access Text/Photo Galleries: Production Notes
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