The Wild Bunch Page #2

Synopsis: It's 1913, and the traditional American West is dying. Among the inhabitants of this dying time era are a outlaw gang called "The Wild Bunch". After a failed bank robbery, the gang head to Mexico to do one last job. Seeing their times and lives drifting away in the newly formed world of the 20th century, the gang take the job and end up in a brutally, violent last stand against their enemies who deemed to be corrupt in a small Mexican town, ruled by a ruthless general.
Director(s): Sam Peckinpah
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
R
Year:
1969
135 min
757 Views


Ape:
They're blowing this town to hell.

Old Woman:
(the one from the first sequence) You're trash.

Ape:
(kissing old woman) Now, you just hush now.

They was playing 'Gather at the river'.

You know that one.

Sing it!

3 people in office: (singing)

Shall we gather at the river

where bright angel feet have trod

Ape:
River that flows by the throne of God

PIKE:
(to DUTCH, who lost his horse in the battle)

Come on you lazy bastard.

DUTCH:
I'm coming.

THORNTON:
They've cleared out, for Christ's sake.

Coffer:
Let's go T.C.

Scene sequence:

00:
00

SOUND:
Simulated heartbeat pounding and the music of the

temperance parade.

CUT:
(from outside) Pike with a gun pointing at the old employee

at the door.

CUT:
Dutch looking, automatic pistol in his hand.

CUT:
(from inside) Pike and employee at the door.

CUT:
Wild bunch members preparing their guns.

CUT:
(from inside) Pike and employee at the door.

CUT:
Dutch looking, automatic pistol in his hand.

CUT:
Angel and Lyle looking at the street.

CUT:
Man in uniform of the wild bunch combat ready.

CUT:
Man without uniform (Ethan) combat ready.

CUT:
Ape (Crazy Lee) nodding toward his hostages.

CUT:
Hostages frightend.

CUT:
(from outside) Pike and employee at the door.

CUT:
Temperance parade.

CUT:
Pike throwing the employee out of the door, Lyle and Angel in

the background.

00:
23

CUT:
Musicans of the temperance parade looking at the employee.

CUT:
(seen from behind) Bounty hunters raising and opening fire.

CUT:
Man at a horse looking up to the roof, to the bounty hunters.

CUT:
Employee gets hit several times.

(repeated several times, only few picures each, less than a

second:
)

CUT:
(frontal) Wild bunch opening fire at bounty hunters.

CUT:
Glas shatters from the shoots of the wild bunch.

00:
31

CUT:
(frontal) Bounty hunters raising.

CUT:
(frontal) Wild bunch shooting at bounty hunters.

CUT:
(frontal) One bounty hunter gets hit.

CUT:
(from behind) Dead bounty hunter falling and the others

looking for cover.

CUT:
(Pike: "Let's go.") (frontal) Wild bunch in the office.

CUT:
Dutch - face.

00:
37

CUT:
(frontal) Wild bunch running out of the office, shooting.

CUT:
(from behind) Bounty hunters shooting.

CUT:
Gorch brothers shooting from the cover of their horses.

CUT:
(frontal) Bounty hunter hit - falling ....

CUT:
Lyle Gorch running and shooting.

CUT:
(frontal) Bounty hunter hit - ... from the roof.

SWING:
picture is swinging quickly through the street with the

wild bunch...

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Sam Peckinpah

David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah was an American film director and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of the Western epic The Wild Bunch. more…

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