The Wild Bunch Has a Good Laugh

[@alec4010]

Edmond O'Brien is just priceless in this scene.

[@lynngregory393]

I didn't realize it was O'Brien til I saw the movie twenty years later.

[@n1collage]

O'Brien deserved a nomination for this one. He looks so unrecognizable that it amazes.

[@stevenwiederholt7000]

@@lynngregory393 Same Here!

[@mariemackey6132]

You got that right. 👍

[@claudiocorleone7856]

Jesus Christ ! That was Edmund O’Brien!

[@rogerhwerner6997]

I remember see The Wild Bunch with college buddies at the Laconia theater. We all expected a typical western shoot'em up. Then opening shoot just left us with mouths agape. The final shootout blew us all away. We'd never seen anything like it before. The movie broke all the rules. The film is brilliant, the dialog unforgettable and the characterizations perfectly realized. Hardly surprising it's considered one of the best westerns ever made and on most lists of the greatest films. These guys ultimately deserved their fate but as anti-heroes they, because of how they were portrayed by actors largely playing against type, they engendered much audience sympathy, even respect. Considering their professions, they chose the only true, honorable way to end their lives.

[@peepawthecat]

Legendary script, legendary actors, legendary movie.

[@randywhite3947]

Not really against type since most of them have played bad guys before.

[@mardiedodds7562]

Exactly my experience but I saw it on TV. One if the greatest movies ever! I'm blown away every time I watch it!

[@user-ho3dz1ft1r]

The gun battles in this film were stunning

[@cheapenstein]

I could only imagine seeing this on the big screen especially when it first came out, I saw this a few decades later as a kid or maybe early teen also expecting a typical western and my jaw dropped and I was speechless even then at the violence and the whole way this movie was, I'd been raised on horror movies but you expect violence in those not much in old westerns, it left an indelible impact on me, all the shootouts and camera effects and ideas were brilliant, the characters, none heroes, anti heroes at most, almost all drawn like months to a flame born to go out In a proud blaze of glory

[@wobblertv8083]

William holden was magnificent in this movie .Capturing the faded nobility of a dying breed of the old west .

[@garrison6863]

Edmund O'Brien was so good in this scene. I mean what guts to play so out there like he did. And then modulating down with the Deke Thornton puzzlement. The Wild Bunch is one of the finest characterized Western scripts ever composed. You find yourself rooting for a bunch of robbers and killers. And feeling something for them as they go out with all guns blazing.

[@Rickwmc]

2:54 After experiencing a humiliating and frustrating setback, Pike and Dutch immediately start pondering their next plan. That's how life is and you've got to do the same.

[@dpeasehead]

@Rickwmc: I don't know, I still can't "think past my guns."

[@skeletonmakesgood]

"That's right! That's what we's doin'!"

[@wheelinthesky300]

Because this is some of, maybe the best, dialogue ever written. Nothing one can say speaks louder than Mr. Peckinpah's script and the great cast.

[@Canigoback]

Absolutely brilliant. Writing. Yes. But acting too.

[@wheelinthesky300]

We gotta start thinkin' beyond our guns. Those days are closin' fast.

[@lastmanonearth71]

Of all the Westerns, one of the greatest films of its kind, and one of the last, of an era........

[@tadgmcloughlin6061]

how could it be one of the last of an era? it's unique, one of a kind! still brilliant!

[@antediluvianarchive7958]

​@@tadgmcloughlin6061 I think they meant that Wild Bunch is set in 1913 at the end of the Frontier era. Most old westerns are set in the 1860s-1890s

[@RandalColling]

Greatest western ever?

[@colt-ec5hc]

Saw this as a kid.... Best movie ever..great actors...

[@michaellazzeri9439]

Edmond O'Brien deserved an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor !

[@wheelinthesky300]

C'mon Gringo, don't kill me, por favor. You can have the silver, but don't kill me, please.

[@theactioneffect]

Best movie ever

[@michaellazzeri9439]

TO : " THEACTIONEFFECT " ----------BROTHER ! I AM WITH YOU, 10,000 % AND MORE ! In making " The Wild Bunch ", Peckinpah had-- for once, control over the film, such as he would never have, again. Phil Feldman let Sam make the film he & Waylon Green had, on the pages, of their screenplay. Phil , took care of the dreaded " suits '", allowing Sam to put on film, the masterpiece, he had on paper, & more --------much more. ------------MJL, 75 y/o

[@killerjoe5628]

William Holden starred in two of the greatest guy movies ever made: The Wild Bunch and Stalag 17.

[@laurallewien2165]

SILVER RINGS! I've never looked at washers the same way again!

[@williegordon7899]

They should have had Ernest Borgnine saying "Silver rings yer ass instead of yer butt".

[@GK1976A]

They were some big ass washers. I wonder what machinery they were for?

[@rickzabel8627]

This movie could just as aptly have been titled "The Crazy Bunch."

[@johnfraser9137]

The beauty and fatalism of men

[@Bayan1905]

One of the all time greatest, if not the greatest western movie ever made.

[@johnfenner347]

A priceless scene. Brilliant from Edmond O’Brien, as Sykes. I think “ borrowed from Walter Huston, in “The Treasure Of the Sierra Madre “ !. Both, marvellous performances.

[@noellewien7267]

Silver rings!!!!!!!! Gotta love it....

[@Wolfsky9]

A Masterpiece. Edmond O'Brien was unrecognizable, & brilliant, as was everyone! ------------------------WolfSky9

[@Kelly14UK]

O'Brien ( irony re 1984 American b/w version) was unrecognizable alrighty

[@emintey]

And it was O'Brien's greatest performance IMO.

[@johnroberts5291]

Sykes re-enacts Walter Huston’s jig in Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

[@randywhite3947]

@@emintey what was his greatest performance?

[@emintey]

@@randywhite3947 Well...if it's not obvious that I'm referring to the movie being discussed here then I'll tell you that it was his performance in the Wizard of Oz.

[@394pjo]

_'We gotta start thinking beyond our guns. Those days are closing fast"_

[@garethhiggon3971]

Greatest Scene in Film History , Blokes being Blokes . Fucking Legendary Bravo LOL

[@luisalberto-gl3ql]

my life starts so , stealing something for my people something for me , something for the revolution , the change, I love these actors ...

[@ernesto6959]

Bring me the head of Alfredo García!!! Genio Sam Peckinpah!

[@petermercer6282]

Best scene in the film

[@wheelinthesky300]

Old Sykes: Deke Thornton..he was one of them? L. Gorch: How in the hell come you didn't know that!?

[@wheelinthesky300]

Go on. Go for it. Fall apart.

[@saanzacs]

Walk softly, boys.

[@BigEdDunkel]

That's right! That's what we was doing!

[@wheelinthesky300]

Sykes: "Who the hell is 'they'?" Bishop: "Railroad men...bounty hunters...Deke Thornton."

[@alec4010]

wheelinthesky300 lmao

[@alec4010]

wheelinthesky300 I've been practicing myself that line in front of the mirror and I must say I'm getting pretty good since everyone thinks I'm a creepy guy

[@emintey]

Pike: "He gave his word!" Dutch: "It's not your word that counts, it's who you give it to!!"

[@williegordon7899]

@@emintey He gave his word to a railroad.

[@chihounddog]

GREAT, GREAT and more great, LOL.

[@jeffsmith2022]

Excellent + film all around...

[@larryrobinson6914]

Pike was dreaming of washers

[@gerrykennedy7849]

Jesus Christ I love this Film definitely the good old days! 😂

[@wheelinthesky300]

"Oh, my, what a Bunch!".

[@wheelinthesky300]

Engstrom: What's our next move? Bishop: Well, I figure Agua Verdes the closest, three days maybe. We'll get the news and drift back to the border. Maybe a payroll, maybe a bank. L Gorch: Maybe that damn railroad. T. Gorch: That damn railroad you're talkin' about sure as hell ain't-a-gettin' no easier. Sykes: And you boys ain't gettin' any younger either, he he, he, he.

[@floydvaughn836]

What's in Agua Verde? Mexicans, what else?

[@johnrunion]

Don José: We all dream of being a child again, even the worst of us. Perhaps the worst most of all.

[@-elchoya9832]

i remember an old b-western from where they had the same scene where they got washers instead of gold,i wish i remember what film it was

[@tenja42]

Oates is a legend - by two, two mind ya Hondo whores... I love this movie

[@michaellazzeri9439]

Oates says ; " Why not ? " and by gawd-almighty, ya know he means it ! I loved the guy -------he & LQ & Strother Martin . --------------loved 'em all.

[@Wolfsky9]

The Best Film ever made.-------------------------EVER.----------------------------------WolfSky9, 74 y/o

[@michaellazzeri9439]

5 Oscar nominated, or winning, actors ; add in Robert Ryan, to make 6 ----- The best Western ever made, & , as a lifetime lover of cinema, my All-time # 1. This is Peckinpah's finest, exploring his recurring themes : the closing of the Old West , & loyalty among men.----It's a film made by men ------about men------& for men, only. Women do not understand " The Wild Bunch " . and neither Peckinpah or Waylon Green cared as they created, the screenplay. ----------I understood it from the very 1st time I saw it on that Friday night, in Downtown Denver, the old Paramount Theater, on 16th St. & Glenarm St's. . I saw all 3 showings, & walked home late at night, knowing I'd seen a Masterpiece. -------------------------------------MJL, 75 y/o

[@elimcgraw4066]

Silver rings your butt, them's washers!

[@mikekauf632]

all the ATMOSPHERE , that could be in an epic western is in "The wild Bunch"

[@Bayan1905]

Despite Freddy being old, he was smart enough when it looked like it was heading south to go over and get that Sharps rifle and cock the hammer back in case it was needed. That old goat as they called it, was smart enough to get the jump on the situation.

[@KClouisville]

"He did his share of killing"

[@michaellazzeri9439]

Oscar Winners / Nominees : Holden / Borgnine / Johnson / Oates & O'Brien , + Robert Ryan, make 6, in this masterpiece. ------------------------------MJL, 75 y/o

[@richardrobinson1697]

BEST WESTERN EVER MADE!

[@kyokogodai-ir6hy]

No. One of the most important "violent" films though.

[@richardrobinson1697]

kyokogodai HAVE TO DISAGREE. SO, WHAT WESTERN DO YOU THINK WAS THE BEST? WILD BUNCH HAD GREAT STORY, ACTION, CHARACTERS WERE GREAT. ENDING WAS AWESOME! I ALSO LOVE TRUE GRIT, BUTCH CASSIDY, SUNDANCE KID!

[@kyokogodai-ir6hy]

For me The Searchers is the best Western in film history. Please understand, all of the films you mentioned are very good (I like True Grit the most of the three). I, personally, am just not taken with the story of The Wild Bunch. I don't get into the "criminal has a change of heart" stories. Especially when said criminals are involved in the slaughter so many people (like how many people enjoy when Crazy Lee murders the three people at the end of the bank robbery scene, shooting them in the back with the shotgun). The ending of the film (the shootout with Mexican soldiers) has it's moments, but the "confusovision" (as I call it) is just that (and I despise it's use today in so many films). I love the cast of the film though. From Holden on down, so many wonderful actors. As for my statement about important "violent" film, it helped usher in the use of gratuitous violence in movies. To me, all that blood is no better than a grindhouse film. Reminds me of when I watch "The Long Riders" by Walter Hill (which isn't really as bad as the Wild Bunch, in terms of blood, and uses many of the same film techniques). Don't get me wrong, I have seen The Wild Bunch numerous times. However, as I get older, the film just seems to get worse for me. I suppose I just don't get off on the violence as I once did.

[@aidaans9615]

kyokogodai tbf I don’t really think the bunch has a change of heart. More so just Pike feeing sorry for Angel as he was a part of his gang. They still have their final stand at Mapaches village at the end of the film which is pretty brutal and the way they would’ve wanted to go out. As outlaws not abiding by the new way of life/civilisation.

[@towerjunikeka-tet1979]

I wish i could have buddies like this

[@wheelinthesky300]

I gotta start thinking beyond my Bachelors Degree. Those days are closing fast.

[@michaellazzeri2069]

THE best film ever made, period ! And, THE all-time #1 Western. For once, Sam Peckinpah was given free reign to make the film he wanted to make. The result ? A true Masterpiece of cinema. With over 1200 cuts & jump cuts, this film broke the rules, & became legendary, in that crazy summer of '69. We go to the moon -------Woodstock-----and, The Manson murders, all in that summer ! -------------------MJL, 77 y/o now.

[@emilyoshiro]

my fave bit

[@donnahide]

Of course love this scene especially 4:43...

[@towerjunikeka-tet1979]

Pure poetry

[@professorshermanpeabody1237]

one thing I hate is railroad men and bounty hunters after my trail

[@wesfortney5294]

0:40 0:56 1:02 1:11 1:18 1:36 2:37 3:43 3:56 4:37 4:43

[@Rickwmc]

And you boys ain't getting any younger either!

[@jean-pierrechoquet2909]

Nice !

[@natealexander1287]

Great part of movie 😊

[@richardedmonds7989]

Watch the expressions in their faces of the bunch whilst discussing their failure. The’r as good as the script & direction. Consumite professionals one & all. As an aside Robert Ryan as the “world weary” pursuer of the bunch steals the film imo. 🌵

[@michaellazzeri9439]

Strother Martin : " What we have here ---------is failure, to communicate ! " ------Strother Martin---------LQ Jones-------Dub Taylor------Slim Pickens----Chill Wills ------------Warren Oates---------Ben Johnson------RG Armstrong-------Jack Elam --------Woody Strode---Barry Sullivan , Brian Keith----Scatman Carothers-----, & Jason Robards to name a few, ALL cut their acting chops working with, & getting hired, fired, hired & fired again, by Sam Peckinpah. -------------------------MJL, 75 y/o

[@iamtragos]

They sure didn't laugh at the end ...

[@wheelinthesky300]

Silver rings your butt. Thems washers!!! Damn!

[@alec4010]

wheelinthesky300 funny too on Ernest Borgnine's part. But nowhere near as funny as the drunken laughter of Edmond O'Brien

[@Loofy101]

When someone says "They/Them"

[@kenneththompson8933]

They...

[@Kelly14UK]

Tesoru Azul Red Dead Redemption?

[@manfredbock2929]

Sie hätten in der Bank schon einen Sack öffnen sollen,dann wäre es anders ausgegangen

[@dpeasehead]

@manfredbock2929: They would still have shot their way out, but their horses would been carrying a little less dead weight.

[@matman000000]

Why are all the comments just quotes from the video?

[@jamesd2128]

That counts as creativity on KZbin.

[@davenaga6101]

They r so classic they bare repeating

[@robertburnett3278]

Greatest movie ever made

[@stevem2323]

Because it's a cult movie with matching lines.

[@valmirmarques7667]

the way things are going soon must require a wild bunch version....with women

[@vincentfisher1603]

Or cross dressers. Ru Paul can be the leader. John Waters can direct. Sounds like a classic to me.

[@bradlee180]

"That's right, that's what we's doin' !"