Western classic The Wild Bunch on Blu-ray

The Wild Bunch is director Sam Peckinpah's vivid and provocative imagination of the west in the early 20th century. It is a remarkable film, both famed for bringing to screen one of most realistic dying west and for its intense portrayal of violence and brutality. Shot in widescreen, it is a dark and unrelenting tale of the 9 outlaws known as the wild bunch, united in friendship and in their fight against the vastly changing world around them. As they see the sun go down on their own way of life, changing technology and the industrial revolution is getting a firm grip on society and they see the dawn of a new west.

A gang of outlaws led by Pike Bishop ride into a town in 1913 and proceed to rob the railroad office. However, their getaway is thrown off by a railroad company's hired bounty hunters, headed unwillingly by Pike's former friend Deke Thornton , who has been offered the chance to earn a pardon if he can catch or kill his old comrade. Following a massacre in the streets, Pike's gang escape and flee to the south toward Mexico where they are enlisted by a seedy general in Agua Verde to rob a weapons train. Pike and his surviving gang-members, Dutch , Lyle , Tector and Angel , agree to carry out the raid on behalf of the general, but they unwisely give one box of the stolen rifles to the local bandits, resulting in the general seeking retribution by taking Angel as his hostage. Believing that they should stand by Angel whatever the cost, Pike and the boys put up one last stand against the soldiers of Agua Verde.

Once the shooting stops, there is an odd sad feeling that settles over the compound and the movie itself. The bounty hunters show up when the vultures do. The sight of his former companions' dead bodies slumped over the backs of horses is too much for Thornton to bear. You know he would have rather been there by their side during the battle, and now he cannot bring himself to claim the reward for their hides. He simply sits down in the dirt as the survivors of the compound quietly file out and an ominous wind begins blowing through the dusty streets. Moments later it's his turn to make a choice. You can't help but feel he made the right one.

The Wild Bunch is an incredible film. If ever a film was ahead of it's time, this is it.

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