The director's cut of the virtuoso, ultra-violent western from one of the masters of the genre, Sam Peckinpah. Voted one of the 100 Greatest Films of All Time in the Sight and Sound critics' poll
In 1913, a gang of outlaws (William Holden, Ernest Borgnine and Robert Ryan, amongst others) ride into a Texan border town where the railroad office is their target. The robbery turns into a bloodbath, so the gang flee to a desert hideout where they discover that their loot is worthless. With the railroad company's hired guns snapping at their heels, they decide to escape to the apparent safety of ta group of Mexican revolutionaries.
The Wild Bunchwas recently voted one of the 100 Greatest Films of All Time in Sight and Sound's once-a-decade critics' poll. Browse more Greatest Films of All Time here.