Sam Peckinpah's elegiac revisionist Western masterpiece, ruthlessly takes apart the myths of the West with its sad farewell to the end of an era. Released in 1969, 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, with the revolutionary direction & editing of Peckinpah genius. Both Lyric & brutal, "The wild Bunch" is one the greatest films ever made. Starring: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Warren Oates and many more.