The Wild Bunch | Opening Railroad Office Robbery | Warner Classics

[@KalteneckerProductions]

One of (if not the best) film set during the Mexican Revolution! It’s a favorite of mine!

[@normalrationalguy1980]

This is great but duck you sucker is my favorite

[@johnwalsh5762]

Aswum!!!

[@michaelhayward7572]

Peckinpah in all his slow-mo glory. Fabulous movie.

[@bryanodriscoll2123]

I first saw this as a schoolboy soon after it first came out over fifty years ago. My friends and I were enthralled by it and it has remained a favourite of mine ever since.

[@MouthBreatherGaming]

Great memories.

[@davidanderson6100]

Man, what a cast, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Strother Martin and LQ Jones. Now, what do we have, comic book heroes, robots, and dinosaurs. What happened, Hollywood?

[@HowardSimonson-f9b]

Recently acquired a Director's Cut DVD. Beautiful on a 50" T.V.! A true classic and I hope it is never attempted to be remade!

[@Harbinger343]

Nah - they gotta remake it with an all-female cast fighting the patriarchy!

[@aaarauz1]

@@Harbinger343 - led by queen latifah. :)

[@abrahamelias5240]

Best Western ever made

[@harryscott9533]

Classic movie 🥸🙋‍♂️❤️👍

[@elchoya8432]

A masterpiece,william holdens beautiful performance,lee marvin turned down this role saying it was too much like his film THE PROFESSIONALS 1966.but marvin did suggest to peckinpah that the bank robbers dress as soldiers.john wayne said this film destroyed the western.

[@aaarauz1]

I'd love to hear Wayne's rationale for that belief.

[@greva2904]

@@aaarauz1Wayne thought big stars like William Holden should only play cowboys as clean cut heroes, not cold blooded murderers. There isn’t one heroic cowboy in this whole movie, much to Wayne’s fury. John Wayne genuinely seemed to think that cowboy movies were portraying America as it ought to be, with the good guy always winning the day.

[@aaarauz1]

I get it. JW was a bit of a cardboard cut out. I am glad the western took a grittier, more graphic tack. Realism. I worship at the throne of Lee Marvin and he would have been amazing as part of this cast but I’m not sure where he’d fit. Holden was craggier and fit as Pike. I think I need to rewatch the Professionals and Point Break.

[@92376]

A masterpiece

[@joãoAlberto-k9x]

Excellent director. 🎉.

[@IronMan-if4ke]

Peckinpah ‘s classic flick is the un-glorified realistic way the end of the wild West came about. The growth of the U.S. military and the reach of the federal government, essentially put an end to the wild, chaotic and outlaw ways of the old west. The feds are shown putting their stamp over the new territories of the U.S. The constant presence of the U.S. military in the film reflects the determination and commitment of federal officials to stamp out the wanton violence of the cowboy culture in order to establish order and the military as the sole guardian of ‘law and order’ in the west. The older wild bunch of cowboy culture was on the way out. The opening scene of kids engaged in the spectator sport of pitting a lone deadly scorpion (the wild bunch) vs the organized ants (US military) swarming their opponent, is a graphic testimony of the changing times in the “wild” west. There’s a new and permanent boss in town.

[@paulraglund5926]

Thank you for your comment. I saw it as a perfect metafore.

[@68blues]

@@paulraglund5926…metafore! You just made yourself look stupid! It's metaphor.

[@MouthBreatherGaming]

@@68blues - Oh the irony.

[@ReallGamerr]

Please release it in 4K quality

[@garymckee63]

It's my favorite Western movie.

[@castormora1093]

True Classic!!

[@RandyWhite-e6t]

This never should have left the sight and sound top 100

[@MichaelArledge-i5f]

My favorite show actors

[@whiteguard56]

What a cast!

[@MM22966]

The only silver-screen bank robbery shootout - in its very different way - that match the finale of HEAT.

[@rockystelone21]

Great movie

[@Halbared]

His best.

[@jackmccullough3991]

Just saw a re release of this in the cinema yesterday.

[@lescorlett4133]

The moment where you start siding with William Holden and the gang.

[@joeenglert]

warren oates and strother martin...peckinpah's favorite boys

[@johnhalley974]

Not forgetting LQ Jones

[@michaelgibson4705]

Dub Taylor another good old character actor

[@michaelalan1270]

PURE PECKINPAH, the best. Who is the Wild Bunch? Robert Ryan's gang or William Holden's gang?

[@P2501-y6u]

"Damnit Dutch, what happened at Blackwater?!"

[@mrblobby7864]

Hope the fact that this is a recent upload means that Warner are finally releasing a new transfer of the film. The current blu ray isn't the best and it really seems like they haven't touched it since the 95 re-release. Surprising that they didn't bother when it was the 50th anniversary though.

[@1bert719]

I bought this early on in DVD production and you have to flip the disc halfway like a vinyl record! Great film though. 😊

[@elchoya8432]

8:19,love that bit.

[@patricktalbot8980]

The idea that guys in covered overwatch positions would lose this fight is just dumb

[@beerdrinker6452]

As dumb as your poorly written comment? Stuff happens, balls win, and your momma wants you to move out of her basement.

[@terryv.2531]

Overwatch doesn't mean much if you can’t shoot worth a damn! The beginning shows that most of the shooters were amateurs at best.

[@peterlovett5841]

The clip started too far into the action. It should have started from the very beginning with the ride into town as there is an increase in tension from the get-go.

[@Lemonjujube]

good movie one of the best

[@greva2904]

4:03 Bo Hopkins once again effortlessly stealing every scene he was ever in.

[@Beehive66]

This is an underhanded dig at the vietnam war.

[@johnzajac9849]

At 6:11, the robber 'slam fires' his shotgun.

[@gilmardepaula9832]

Em dezembro de 2024. MEU ÓDIO SERÁ SUA HERANÇA, ótimo trabalho de Willian Holden e Ernest Borgnaine. Direção do competente Sam Peckinpah. Um ótimo filme para as tardes de sábado.

[@MikeSchlesinger]

How many people and/or horses were killed/injured making this?

[@jondrew55]

Less than the number of kids who died mining the rare earth elements that were used to build your phone

[@brandtbollers3183]

The Professional 's. a week later.1916.

[@454FatJack]

Colt 1911, Winchester pump, leveraction.. wonder why a have all those. Springfield 03 not yet. saa colt❤

[@deadhorse1391]

To bad they used WWIi 1903A3 rifles

[@MM-vv8mt]

This film takes place around 1915, so both the Springfield 1903 and the Colt 1911 ACP were in use by the US Army at that time.

[@deadhorse1391]

@ the Springfields that they are using are the model 1903A3 which did not come out to WWII

[@liviosinibaldi3632]

It would have never happened in reality.

[@beerdrinker6452]

Art imitates life. This type of scenario has happened dozens of times throughout history.

[@RonaldEdwinAquino-xy3vg]

Una matanza

[@adamhall5024]

This has to be the worst shootouts I’ve ever seen.

[@anthonymorgan6255]

It's hilariously bad.

[@smfvmd]

A classic film but I didn’t like the slow motion blood letting, then or now.

[@alphalunamare]

An extra's life is cheap in America

[@darrellborland119]

I thought it was interesting, an eyeball-opener, and indicative of the best Cinema-photography technology of that era...along with Sam Peckinpah's skills, when he was somewhat sober, LOL. In fact, during The Wild Bunch's initial showing to the press, apparently Sam, Ernest, and Holden were pretty well-pasted from an all-night celebratory bender, LOL...The video of that 'showing may be on-line somewhere. Thanks, and have a good day, SM.

[@Wotsitorlabart]

My understanding is that Peckinpah ladled on the gore to actually repel his audience - for them to to react against the violence. If so, he clearly didn't understand the baseness of human nature

[@deckofcards87]

Same. I dislike a lot of the camera techniques in the film, actually. Especially the wonky zooms that unfortunately feature in so many late 60s/early 70s movies.. IMO, it cheapens what should be an engrossing cinematic moment and makes it look like tv from the era. Kubrick and Robert Altman were exceptions when it came to the zoom lens fad and did it tastefully. Peckinpah not so much. BTW this is my only criticisms of him because I actually like a lot of Peckinpah's films, in general.

[@joãoAlberto-k9x]

Great movie. 🎉.