The climactic shootout of The Wild Bunch lasted five hellish minutes, and after it was over, violence in the movies was never ... hacienda outside Parras). The images captured by Ballard and ...

in changing times.” Whatever happened to the old John Wayne movies? — An audience member at a screening of Sam Peckinpah’s “The Wild Bunch” The outline of the story is simplicity itself.

‘The Wild Bunch’s’ greatest innovation lies in the production work itself. Specifically, photography. The most familiar images in the ... turned up in American movies before it.

W.K. Stratton was 13 when The Wild Bunch was released in 1969. In that pre-internet time, movie theaters were a prime option for escape, and in director Sam Peckinpah's radical Western Stratton ...