June 19 1969 

THE WILD BUNCH opens. Written by Walon Green and Sam Peckinpah, from a story by Walon Green and Roy N. Sickner. Peckinpah's magnum opus, set in 1913, in the dying days of the Old West, follows a gang of 5 ageing outlaws fulfilling their bloody destiny in a dusty Mexican backwater. Elegic, magnificently crafted revisionist Western. With William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Warren Oates and Ben Johnson. 

 

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