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Review   / Convoy
Actors & Directors
  • Ernest Borgnine
  • Ali MacGraw
  • Burt Young
  • Kris Kristofferson
  • Madge Sinclair
  • Sam Peckinpah
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Bill L. Norton

Review Convoy:


Review   / The Wild Bunch
Actors & Directors
  • Sam Peckinpah
  • Ernest Borgnine
  • Warren Oates
  • Robert Ryan
  • William Holden
  • Edmond O'Brien
Run time: 134 min.
Creator: Walon Green

Review The Wild Bunch:

One of the best action movies ever made, in a cleaned-up print restoring crucial parts of the story. No cavalry ever rode in with more epochal impact than the Wild Bunch in the legendary opening scene. Their steel-eyed leader, Pike (William Holden), and his robbers in stolen army uniforms help an old lady across the street, and then spark a massacre led by Pike's old crony Thornton (Robert Ryan), sprung from jail to hunt down his old gang. In just a few minutes, Sam Peckinpah sets the scene-a dusty Texas town in 1913-sketches a dozen vividly individualized characters, and choreographs one of the most realistic, influential, brilliantly photographed shootouts under the pitiless sun. The cast is superb (even Ernest Borgnine!), the dialog crackling, the bitterly ambiguous moral of the story hard-earned. It's the deeper, dark flip side to 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Consider buying the letterbox Wild Bunch, the review collection Doing It Right, and the Peckinpah bio "If They Move. Kill 'Em!" -Tim Appelo One of the best action movies ever made, in a cleaned-up print restoring crucial parts of the story. [+]
No cavalry ever rode in with more epochal impact than the Wild Bunch in the legendary opening scene. Their steel-eyed leader, Pike (William Holden), and his robbers in stolen army uniforms help an old lady across the street, and then spark a massacre led by Pike's old crony Thornton (Robert Ryan), sprung from jail to hunt down his old gang. In just a few minutes, Sam Peckinpah sets the scene-a dusty Texas town in 1913-sketches a dozen vividly individualized characters, and choreographs one of the most realistic, influential, brilliantly photographed shootouts under the pitiless sun. The cast is superb (even Ernest Borgnine!), the dialog crackling, the bitterly ambiguous moral of the story hard-earned. It's the deeper, dark flip side to 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Consider buying the letterbox Wild Bunch, the review collection Doing It Right, and the Peckinpah bio "If They Move. Kill 'Em!" -Tim Appelo.

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