MOVIES - Wild Bunch on AMC tonight @ 8:00 pm

[RIHMFIRE]

Of all the Westerns I have seen I have not seen this one. I watched an interview with Ernsrt Borgnine last night after watching his new western Aces n eights and he loved making that movie I also found this review "If they move, kill 'em!" Beginning and ending with two of the bloodiest battles in screen history, Sam Peckinpah's classic revisionist Western ruthlessly takes apart the myths of the West. Released in the late '60s discord over Vietnam, in the wake of the controversial Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and the brutal "spaghetti westerns" of Sergio Leone, The Wild Bunch polarized critics and audiences over its ferocious bloodshed. One side hailed it as a classic appropriately pitched to the violence and nihilism of the times, while the other reviled it as depraved. After a failed payroll robbery, the outlaw Bunch, led by aging Pike Bishop (William Holden) and including Dutch (Ernest Borgnine), Angel (Jaime Sanchez), and Lyle and Tector Gorch (Warren Oates and Ben Johnson), heads for Mexico pursued by the gang of Pike's friend-turned-nemesis Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan). Ultimately caught between the corruption of railroad fat cat Harrigan (Albert Dekker) and federale general Mapache (Emilio Fernandez), and without a frontier for escape, the Bunch opts for a final Pyrrhic victory, striding

In other words....its one hell of a shootem up movie!

[BigSky56]

The Wild Bunch is my #1 movie . danny

[Borregos]

Definitely a CLASSIC

[RSY]

I know I've said this before, but that film almost completely encompasses the array of firearms that turn my crank:

M1911s
M1903s
Win. Model 12s
Win. 92s and 94s
Mausers
Peacemakers

What am I missing?

Can anyone name the firearm anachronism present in this film?

[JerryB]

I just finished watching the movie. Are you referring to the Sharps carried by the old man?

[RSY]

The M1917 Browning machine gun. A slight problem since the story is set in 1913.

Scott

[Gun Smith]

A couple of M. 97 riot guns too, I think.

[Ben_Rumson]

1903A3s

Did any of you recognize Freddy Sikes? D.O.A. ring a bell?

[airedaleman]

Sure, that's Edmund O'Brien, and didn't he have a Spencer?

[Sixgun]

Thanks Dude! All of my reloading is caught up, the bullets are cast, and the rifles are greased. I'm gonna watch a good western!---------Sixgun

[RIHMFIRE]

That was one darn good movie!
gonna have to add that to my collection!

Did any of you recognize Freddy Sikes? D.O.A. ring a bell?
[/quote]

I think hes been in a few westerns....
The Man who shot Liberty Valance...for sure....
cant recall the others right now!

[RSY]

1903A3s

Did any of you recognize Freddy Sikes? D.O.A. ring a bell?

I remember he played Marty in "The Girl Can't Help It."

[Ben_Rumson]

O'Brien.. But did yall recognize him a Sikes?