"The Wild Bunch The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American epic Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah about an aging outlaw gang on the Mexico–United States border trying to adapt to the changing modern world of 1913. The film was controversial because of its graphic violence and its portrayal of crude men attempting to survive by any available means. The screenplay was written by Peckinpah and Walon Green. It stars William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson, and Warren Oates. It was filmed in Mexico, notably at the Hacienda Ciénaga del Carmen, deep in the desert between"
"Sam Peckinpah David Samuel Peckinpah (; February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984) was an American film director and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of the Western epic ""The Wild Bunch"" (1969). He was known for the visually innovative and explicit depiction of action and violence as well as his revisionist approach to the Western genre. Peckinpah's films generally deal with the conflict between values and ideals, as well as the corruption and violence in human society. His characters are often loners or losers who desire to be honorable, but are forced to compromise in order to survive"
"Wild Bunch"", which inspired the final confrontation between the American and German troops and the earlier scene where the Sultan test-fires his Maxim gun. The film was a co production between MGM, then under the control of Daniel Melnick, and Columbia Pictures, then run by Peter Guber. It was produced by Herb Jaffe making his first film as an independent after five years as head of production at United Artists. Milius originally wanted Omar Sharif to play Raisuli and Faye Dunaway to play Eden Perdicaris, but Sharif refused the part and Dunaway became ill due to exhaustion, having to be"
"to shoot two music videos featuring Julian Lennon—""Valotte"" and ""Too Late For Goodbyes."" The critically acclaimed videos led to Lennon's nomination for Best New Video Artist at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards. Sam Peckinpah David Samuel Peckinpah (; February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984) was an American film director and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of the Western epic ""The Wild Bunch"" (1969). He was known for the visually innovative and explicit depiction of action and violence as well as his revisionist approach to the Western genre. Peckinpah's films generally deal with the conflict between values"
"Lou Lombardo (filmmaker) Lou Lombardo (February 15, 1932 – May 8, 2002) was an American filmmaker whose editing of the 1969 film ""The Wild Bunch"" has been called ""seminal"". In all, Lombardo is credited on more than twenty-five feature films. Noted mainly for his work as a film and television editor, he also worked as a cameraman, director, and producer. In his obituary, Stephen Prince wrote, ""Lou Lombardo's seminal contribution to the history of editing is his work on ""The Wild Bunch"" (1969), directed by Sam Peckinpah. The complex montages of violence that Lombardo created for that film influenced generations"
"was produced by Tom Thurman in 1993 as a tribute to the actor's career. Oates was again recognized in March 2009 with the first-ever biography of his colorful life. Featuring interviews with the actor's former wives, his children, and friends, ""Warren Oates: A Wild Life"" was written by Susan Compo. It has received much acclaim from fans and critics alike. Warren Oates Warren Mercer Oates (July 5, 1928 – April 3, 1982) was an American actor best known for his performances in several films directed by Sam Peckinpah, including ""The Wild Bunch"" (1969) and ""Bring Me the Head of Alfredo"
"Hyman and Phil Feldman were interested in having Peckinpah rewrite and direct an adventure film, ""The Diamond Story"". An alternative screenplay written by Roy Sickner and Walon Green was the western ""The Wild Bunch"". At the time, William Goldman's screenplay ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" had recently been purchased by 20th Century Fox. It was quickly decided that ""The Wild Bunch"", which had several similarities to Goldman's work, would be produced in order to beat ""Butch Cassidy"" to the theaters. By the fall of 1967, Peckinpah was rewriting the screenplay into what became ""The Wild Bunch"". Filmed on location"
"films ever made and No. 69 as the most thrilling, but the controversy has not diminished. ""The Wild Bunch"" was re-released for its 25th anniversary, and received an NC-17 rating from the MPAA. Peckinpah received his only Academy Award nomination (for Best Original Screenplay) for this film. Defying audience expectations, as he often did, Peckinpah immediately followed ""The Wild Bunch"" with the elegiac, funny and mostly non-violent 1970 Western ""The Ballad of Cable Hogue"". Utilizing many of the same cast (L. Q. Jones, Strother Martin) and crew members of ""The Wild Bunch"", the film covered three years in the life"
"brilliant score. The composer ""caught the weariness, dust, dirt and blood of a vanishing West in a rich underscore that interspersed sprightly action cues with wistful Mexican folk melodies and nostalgic, bittersweet dirges"", writes British film composer Heathcliff Blair The soundtrack brought his first nomination for an Oscar for Best Dramatic Score. ""The Wild Bunch gave me a chance to illustrate to the public, and the entertainment industry, that if a composer is given real freedom to create, he can produce a score that is unlike any other ever written"", Fielding said later. In his next film outing, the quaint"
"lifetime achievement award for his composition in ""The Wild Bunch"" which celebrated its 40th anniversary. It was received by his daughter Claudia Fielding. Bibliography Jerry Fielding Joshua Itzhak Feldman (June 17, 1922 – February 17, 1980), known professionally as Jerry Fielding, was an American jazz musician, arranger, band leader, and film composer who emerged in the 1960s after a decade on the blacklist to create boldly diverse and evocative Oscar-nominated scores, primarily for gritty, often brutally savage, films in western and crime action genres, including the Sam Peckinpah movies ""The Wild Bunch"" (1969) and ""Straw Dogs"" (1971). Jerry Fielding was"
"previously worked together on the acclaimed film ""Two-Lane Blacktop"" (1971). Sam Peckinpah became involved through actor James Coburn, who wanted to play the legendary sheriff Pat Garrett. Peckinpah believed that this was his chance to make a definitive statement on the Western genre and complete the revision that he had begun with ""Ride the High Country"" (1962) and ""The Wild Bunch"" (1969). Working with Wurlitzer, he rewrote the script in order to create a more cyclical narrative, and added a prologue and epilogue depicting Garrett's own assassination at the hands of the men who hired him to kill Billy the"
"not the best known theme, which is by Lalo Schifrin) and ""Star Trek"" in second and third seasons. It was his composing for a contemporary made-for-TV Western, Noon Wine, directed by then-unknown Sam Peckinpah, that led to Fielding's breakthrough score for Peckinpah's first critical and box-office hit, ""The Wild Bunch"" (1969) as well as a volatile but ultimately fruitful collaboration between the two men. A neo-Noir Western with a wordless, staggeringly violent final shootout still imitated to this day, The Wild Bunch's quartet of taciturn, bitter gunmen, led by Bill Holden, are given power, humor and voice largely through Fielding's"
"guilt, old age and death in the American fantasy of the Old West."" Stephen Prince wrote in 1999 that, """"The Wild Bunch"" is an epic work, and it has had an epic impact on American cinema"" and noted Martin Scorsese's description of the film as ""savage poetry"". Paul Seydor has described the film as ""one of the great masterpieces of world cinema"", and then further notes that ""Any discussion of ""The Wild Bunch"" implicitly acknowledges the editing by Lou Lombardo and Robert Wolfe, so integral is it to the style, meaning, and effect of the film. Still, one should at"
"American classics like Jim Jarmusch's ""Dead Man"" and Andrew Dominik's ""The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"", ""McCabe & Mrs. Miller"", like ""The Wild Bunch"", packs every bit the wallop of relevance and currency that it did over three decades ago. No hint of hyperbole, they are two of the best films ever made."" As he had done for Peckinpah on ""The Wild Bunch"", Lombardo acted as a second unit director for additional film footage. Altman and Lombardo spent nine months editing the film in North Vancouver, close to the location of the filming itself. The editing"
"technique famously put to more sophisticated use in 1969s ""The Wild Bunch"". After cancellation of ""The Westerner"", Brian Keith was cast as the male lead in the 1961 Western film ""The Deadly Companions"". He suggested Peckinpah as director and the project's producer Charles B. Fitzsimons accepted the idea. By most accounts, the low-budget film shot on location in Arizona was a learning process for Peckinpah, who feuded with Fitzsimons (brother of the film's star Maureen O'Hara) over the screenplay and staging of the scenes. Reportedly, Fitzsimons refused to allow Peckinpah to give direction to O'Hara. Unable to rewrite the screenplay"
"a funeral procession and the use of inexperienced locals as extras, were perfected in ""The Wild Bunch"". Many critics denounced its violence as sadistic and exploitative. Other critics and filmmakers hailed the originality of its unique rapid editing style, created for the first time in this film and ultimately becoming a Peckinpah trademark, and praised the reworking of traditional Western themes. It was the beginning of Peckinpah's international fame, and he and his work remained controversial for the rest of his life. The film was ranked No. 80 on the American Film Institute's top 100 list of the greatest American"
"the revolution in Hollywood editing further than anyone else, and ""The Wild Bunch"" was established at the end of the 1960s as the epitome for fast-paced editing in a narrative film."" David A. Cook included an extended list of the film's influences in a 1999 essay. In an interview, the director John Woo, who is widely celebrated for his martial arts films, explicitly acknowledged its influence. Director Quentin Tarantino is often included. Eric Snider writes, ""We noted in our discussion of ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" that it was a huge influence on Quentin Tarantino. ""The Wild Bunch"""
"Ron Thompson, Jane Alexander, Richard X. Slattery and Pepper Martin among the cast with Edwin Sherin directing. Martin appeared in all three of the classic Westerns released in 1969: Sam Peckinpah's ""The Wild Bunch"" (as Coffer, a bloodthirsty bounty hunter), George Roy Hill's ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" (as Percy Garris, the ""colorful"" Bolivian mine boss who hires the two title characters) and Henry Hathaway's ""True Grit"" (as Colonel Stonehill, a horse dealer). He frequently acted alongside L.Q. Jones, who in real life was one of his closest friends. Though he usually appeared in supporting roles, he had major"
"Internet Movie Database. Lombardo's credits are listed in the first parentheses. The director and release year are indicated in the second. Lou Lombardo (filmmaker) Lou Lombardo (February 15, 1932 – May 8, 2002) was an American filmmaker whose editing of the 1969 film ""The Wild Bunch"" has been called ""seminal"". In all, Lombardo is credited on more than twenty-five feature films. Noted mainly for his work as a film and television editor, he also worked as a cameraman, director, and producer. In his obituary, Stephen Prince wrote, ""Lou Lombardo's seminal contribution to the history of editing is his work on"
"Jerry Fielding Joshua Itzhak Feldman (June 17, 1922 – February 17, 1980), known professionally as Jerry Fielding, was an American jazz musician, arranger, band leader, and film composer who emerged in the 1960s after a decade on the blacklist to create boldly diverse and evocative Oscar-nominated scores, primarily for gritty, often brutally savage, films in western and crime action genres, including the Sam Peckinpah movies ""The Wild Bunch"" (1969) and ""Straw Dogs"" (1971). Jerry Fielding was born as Joshua Itzhak Feldman in Pittsburgh, to Hiram Harris Feldman and Esther Feldman, both American Jews. After trying the trombone, he took up"
"Donnie Wahlberg and Bridget Moynahan and directed by Jon Avnet. The pilot was not picked up for a series. In 2010 Green was the showrunner/executive producer of the of the USA Network television series, """". Green wrote the 2015 miniseries adaptation of ""Killing Jesus: A History"". Walon Green was nominated in 1970 for an Oscar for best original screenplay for ""The Wild Bunch"". He was awarded an Oscar in 1972 for his documentary ""The Hellstrom Chronicle"", for which he also won The Technical Grand Prize at Cannes in 1971 and the Flaherty Documentary Award. He was nominated for Primetime Emmys"
"U.S. National Film Registry selected it for preservation in the Library of Congress as culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant. The film was ranked 80th in the American Film Institute's 100 best American films and the 69th most thrilling film. In 2008, the AFI listed 10 best films in 10 genres, ranking ""The Wild Bunch"" as the sixth-best Western. In Texas in 1913, Pike Bishop, the leader of a gang of aging outlaws, is seeking retirement with one final score: the robbery of a railroad office containing a cache of silver. They are ambushed by Pike's former partner, Deke Thornton, who"
"The Wild Wild West The Wild Wild West is an American science fiction western television series that ran on the CBS television network for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969. Two television films were made with the original cast in 1979 and 1980 and the series was adapted for a feature-length film in 1999. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as ""James Bond on horseback."" Set during the administration of President Ulysses Grant (1869–77), the series followed Secret"
"Raoul Walsh Raoul A. Walsh (March 11, 1887December 31, 1980) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the brother of the silent screen actor George Walsh. He was known for portraying John Wilkes Booth in the silent classic ""The Birth of a Nation"" (1915) and for directing such films as ""The Big Trail"" (1930), starring John Wayne, ""High Sierra"" (1941), starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart; and ""White Heat"" (1949), starring James Cagney and Edmond O'Brien. He directed his last film in 1964. Walsh was born in New"
"The Wild Pony The Wild Pony is a made for pay-TV movie produced in 1983 by Kevin Sullivan (""Anne of Green Gables"") and Eda Lishman. Sullivan and Lishman also co-wrote the screenplay based on the book ""The Year of the Black Pony"" by American author Walt Morey. ""The Wild Pony"" has the distinction of being the first example of a Canadian film produced specifically for pay-TV. The film, directed by Kevin Sullivan and starring Canadian Actors Marilyn Lightstone, Art Hindle and Josh Byrne, was filmed on a ranch west of Pincher Creek, Alberta against the backdrop of the Canadian Rockies."
"Alone"" (1958),""The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond"" (1960), ""A Time for Dying"" (1969), ""Arruza"" (1972), and ""My Kingdom For..."" (1985). Another relationship of importance was with Sam Peckinpah. They worked together on ""The Westerner"" (1960 television series), ""Ride the High Country"" (1962), ""The Wild Bunch"" (1969), ""The Ballad of Cable Hogue"" (1970), ""The Getaway"" (1972), and ""Junior Bonner"" (1972). Ballard was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for ""The Caretakers"" (1963) and won the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Cinematography for ""The Wild Bunch"". He worked on more than 130 films during his 50-year"
"least observe that the art and craft of film editing know no higher peaks than ""The Wild Bunch"", and very, very few that are anywhere near its summit."" Lombardo became acquainted with Peckinpah when he moonlighted as a cameraman when Peckinpah was directing the television movie ""Noon Wine"" (1966). Ultimately this connection led to Lombardo's joining Peckinpah to make ""The Wild Bunch""; Peckinpah was particularly interested in the editing techniques that Lombardo had devised while editing ""Felony Squad"". Lombardo described the crucial scene from the television show in a later interview with Vincent LoBrutto, ""Joe Don Baker came out and"
"Says."" Walon Green was born in Baltimore, Maryland on December 15, 1936. He is the father of Darwin Green, a writer and film editor, and Collin Green, a teacher and photographer. Walon Green Walon Green (born December 15, 1936) is an American documentary film director and screenwriter, for both television and film. Green produced and directed documentaries for National Geographic and David Wolper, including ""The Hellstrom Chronicle"", for which he was accorded the Academy Award and the BAFTA in 1972, and ""The Secret Life of Plants"" in 1979. Among his screenwriting credits are the films ""The Wild Bunch"", ""Sorcerer"", ""The"
"Wild Wild West Wild Wild West is a 1999 American steampunk western action comedy film produced and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by S. S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. Loosely based on ""The Wild Wild West"" 1960s TV series created by Michael Garrison, the film stars Will Smith and Kevin Kline as two Secret Service agents who protect President Ulysses S. Grant and the United States during the American Old West. The supporting cast features Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek, Ted Levine, M. Emmet Walsh and Bai Ling. Produced by Peters Entertainment and Sonnenfeld-Josephson Worldwide"
"Walon Green as the film's screenwriter. The director got to know Green in the 1960s, and was since highly impressed with his work in Sam Peckinpah's western ""The Wild Bunch"". Friedkin described Green as a multilingual person, fluently speaking French, Spanish, Italian, and German, as well as having ""an encyclopedic knowledge of classical music and literature"". Prior to writing the script, Green expressed enthusiasm about the project and suggested Friedkin read Gabriel García Márquez's novel ""One Hundred Years of Solitude"". Friedkin described it as ""another lifechanging work"" which served as a workprint for their adaptation of ""Wages of Fear"". The"
"its almost jolly account of chaos, corruption, and defeat"". Among the actors, he commented particularly on William Holden: ""After years of giving bored performances in boring movies, Holden comes back gallantly in ""The Wild Bunch"". He looks older and tired, but he has style, both as a man and as a movie character who persists in doing what he's always done, not because he really wants the money but because there's simply nothing else to do."" ""Time"" also liked Holden's performance, describing it as his best since ""Stalag 17"" (a 1953 film that earned Holden an Oscar); said Robert Ryan"
"became United States citizens in 1954. Lansbury served as producer of 69 episodes of ""The Wild Wild West"", from 1966–69, and 38 episodes of """", from 1969–72, and among his work on other television series and TV movies, Lansbury served as producer of ""Wonder Woman"", ""Knight Rider"" and executive producer for the science fiction series ""The Fantastic Journey"". His name appears in the closing credits of ""The Brady Bunch"", ""Happy Days"" and ""The Odd Couple"" as ""Vice President of Creative Affairs"" for Paramount Television. Lansbury's most notable position was serving as producer of 88 episodes of ""Murder, She Wrote"", starring"
"Dennis Feldman Dennis Jeffrey Feldman (born 1946) is a North American screenwriter, photographer, film producer and director. Feldman is the son of Phil Feldman, an attorney who became a Hollywood producer and executive. He has three brothers, Ken, Gary and Randy. Dennis even worked on Phil's best known, 1969's ""The Wild Bunch"", with a small appearance on the opening Texas town sequence. Feldman graduated from Harvard University, where he became interested in photography and design, partly due to his upbringing close to the film industry. He worked a while as a documentary photographer, then studied graphic design at the Yale"