Consider again. Director Alfonso Arau was in “The Wild Bunch”! Yes! He was the charming, grinning staff officer to the corrupt General Mapache, and he had a line that conferred instant screen ...

The climactic shootout of The Wild Bunch lasted five hellish minutes ... The next to die is the accountant, Alfonso Arau’s Lieutenant Herrera, no doubt a symbolic choice on Sam’s part ...

“The Wild Bunch” rides up late in the annals of ... men take out dozens upon dozens of darker-skinned foes. And yet Alfonso Arau — brilliant in the role of Mapache’s envoy to the Bunch ...

Cast: L.Q. Jones, Alfonso Arau, Ernest Borgnine, Warren Oates, William Holden, Ben Johnson, Paul Harper, Dub Taylor, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Strother Martin ...

"The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah ... of white men take out dozens upon dozens of darker-skinned foes. And yet Alfonso Arau — brilliant in the role of Mapache's envoy to the Bunch — learned ...