From the opening scenes of that botched bank robbery until the final shootout with the outlaws taking on a whole army, The Wild Bunch is Sam Peckinpah's personal ode to the closing of the west. These outlaws may not have gone out with the same sense of dignity that John Bernard Books did in The Shootist, but they sure lacked nothing for style.William Holden heads an outlaw gang who's got a big price on his head and one of his former men, Robert Ryan, leading an effort to capture or kill him and his crew. Ryan isn't exactly given the best of help by the authorities in the persons of L.Q. Jones and Strother Martin. Still Ryan's determined to win his freedom.Holden also wants freedom, but if the west of John Bernard Books is gone in 1901, by 1911 it's really over and done with. In the tradition of many films and in real life, the total breakdown of federal authority in Mexico offered much opportunity for folks like Holden and his outlaw band. They go into the service of one of the local Generals, Emilio Fernandez who's not much better than Alfonso Bedoya in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, he's just got a much prettier uniform. The decades of hatred for the 'gringo' and the complexity of Mexican politics just bewilders and disgusts Holden and his crew. In the end they decide their time is over and have one lovely final battle.In the cast there are a couple of prominent survivors, but see the film if you want to know who. In real life Albert Dekker committed suicide while shooting this film. Dekker plays the railroad man who employs Ryan, I imagine his role was cut down and written around. That in itself was nothing to Sam Peckinpah who was legendary for improvising. Still it's a sad end for a great player, but Dekker did go out on a good film.The Wild Bunch with those two violence ballets that Sam Peckinpah was also legendary for make The Wild Bunch one of the best westerns ever. Not to be missed by any fan of the genre.
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