The Wild Bunch

AWESOME! This is in my top 10 favorite westerns of all time.

Peckinpah's (The Rifleman) masterpiece was deemed the most violent film ever when it was released. It holds some record for most killed or most bullets, or something like that. "If they move kill 'em." IMDb writes, "An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them." Awesome assembly of actors and I love plots where progress is coming and it's the group one last hurrah so to speak. Holden (Sunset Blvd.), Borgnine (The Dirty Dozen), Ryan (Bad Day at Black Rock), O'Brien (White Heat), Oates (Badlands), and Johnson (The last Picture Show). "They abandon their careers for the simpler life of retirement. They enjoy this time, they live their fantasies. During this time the law is always on their tracks, bounty hunters. The further into their fantasy they get, the closer their demise seems to get. When one of their own is captured they are faced with the choice of escape or what is certainly a suicide mission to attempt and free their fallen behind comrade. For them it is not a choice." All in all, I say: SEE IT