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
778 Views


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

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

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Employee gets hit several times.

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

second:
)

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(frontal) Wild bunch opening fire at bounty hunters.

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Glas shatters from the shoots of the wild bunch.

00:
31

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(frontal) Bounty hunters raising.

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(frontal) Wild bunch shooting at bounty hunters.

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(frontal) One bounty hunter gets hit.

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(from behind) Dead bounty hunter falling and the others

looking for cover.

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

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Dutch - face.

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37

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

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(from behind) Bounty hunters shooting.

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Gorch brothers shooting from the cover of their horses.

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

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Lyle Gorch running and shooting.

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

SWING:
picture is swinging quickly through the street with the

wild bunch...

(repeated)

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(frontal) ANGEL shooting.

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

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(frontal) another bounty hunter hit.

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47

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Thornton shooting from side.

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(side) Bounty hunter hit - ... from the roof. (see that the

street is a fake - his fall continues below the level of the

street)

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(frontal) ... bounty hunter hit.

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Dutch running out of the office shooting.

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(frontal) old 'soldier' shooting from behind a door.

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(side) Thornton shooting.

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Dutch shooting, in the background two women.

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Musicans running in the background roof with bounty hunters.

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(Crazy Lee: "Good luck boys.") Receiving his gun again.

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Ethan and Pike leaving the office.

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T.C. shooting.

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... and missing Pike.

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Dutch shooting, behind him women and old men looking shelter

behind barrels, Pike appears behind Dutch.

01:
00

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(side) Thornton shooting.

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... missing Dutch, who is now in between the temperance

parade.

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(side) Pike running.

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(frontal) Pike running into the temperance parade.

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Man running into Ethan.

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'Soldier' coming out of the office, shooting.

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Three bounty hunters, Harrigan on the roof, shooting.

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'Soldier' on horse rides straight into the people.

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... people stretch their arms for protection.

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People running, wounded, a woman holds a man, a 'soldier'

shooting at the bounty hunters.

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Three bounty hunters, Harrigan on the roof, shooting.

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... the man, who was held by the woman got hit again.

01:
16

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Rider under a balcony.

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Man on the balcony loading his gun.

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... woman falls together with man on the street.

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(from behind) Ape (Crazy Lee) looking out to the street

("They are blowing this town to hell.")

ZOOMING AWAY:
A dead body on the street, people running in each

direction, Pike shooting with his pistol against the bounty

hunters.

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(from the street) Roof with shooting bounty hunters.

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a 'soldier' takes an old woman as cover.

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(frontal) Thornton looking down, shooting.

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... 'soldier' gets hit.

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Bounty hunter beside Thornton get hit.

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People on the street running.

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Three bounty hunters, Harrigan on the roof, shooting.

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... man gets hit.

01:
37

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(Office:) Woman to Ape: "You're trash."

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(frontal) Crazy Lee ...

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Man crawling on the street.

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Rider, horse neighs, shoots up straight through the boards.

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Man on the balcony shoots straight through the boards.

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Rider sees the shootin, galopps away.

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Man on the balcony runs to the end of the balcony to get

again into shooting position.

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Rider in an empty street, in the background the main street.

01:
49

SWING:
People on the main street, running, dying.

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Pike gets on his horse.

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Ethan looking.

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People on the main street, running, dying, a rider.

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Man on the balcony shoots a rider.

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... he smashes through the glas of a woman-clothes store.

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(frontal) Thornton shooting.

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(frontal) ... Dutch's horse got hit.

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... man falls through the glas continued...

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... Dutch falling ...

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... man falls through the glas continued...

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... Dutch falling (other angle) ...

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... man falls through the glas continued...

02:
02

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Crazy Lee kissing the old woman hostage.

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Angel fights his way through the street.

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Harrigan shooting:

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... a man hit in the back, a little girl knees beside him

crying.

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Crazy Lee: They was playing "Gather at the river."

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(frontal) "Sing it"

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Hostages sing 'Gather at the river'.

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(frontal) Happy face of Crazy Lee.

02:
24

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People running on the main street.

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'Soldier', behind a door shooting.

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(side) Thornton shooting, an empty patron rolling over his

hat.

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Woman run to the door behind the 'soldier'.

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Musicans in the foreground of the picture.

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Pike puts the 'money' on his horse.

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Thornton sees Pike.

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Pike Recognizes Thornton.

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Thornton shoots ...

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... and hits a musican.

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Pike shoots ...

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... and hits the bounty hunter right side of Thornton.

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Pike tries to get his horse under control.

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Thornton wants to shoot at Pike but his gun is empty.

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Dutch (on a horse) shoots at the bounty hunters.

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Bounty hunters seek cover behind the roof and then open fire

again.

02:
43

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People on the streets running. The old 'soldier' now on a

horse got hit.

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Crazy Lee and his hostages "Gather at the river".

(repeated)

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Main street. Riders and remains of the temperance parade.

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Thornton, looking for a target.

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Pike, under his horse a women, the horse moving uncontrolled,

killing the woman ...

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... Woman lying in the dust.

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Pike looks back.

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(side) Bounty hunters on the roof shooting.

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(from behind) Wild bunch riding away through the main street.

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Two little children at a wall holding each other while the

riders pass them by and the shooting continues.

03:
04

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Thornton shooting.

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Man falls from the horse, not giving away the bags with 'the

money' and being dragged by the horse through the street.

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(close) Two little children from before (zooming) ...

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Dutch grabs two bags with 'money' from the street.

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(close) Two little children from before, dust blows in their

faces.

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Bounty hunters shooting from the roof.

(repeated)

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Horse of the man, who is dragged through the street, got hit.

(in the background you can see the man, who holds the horse and

causes the fall of the horse ...)

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(close) The two children.

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The man standing up.

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Coffer firing.

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... man got hit ....

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(close) The two children.

03:
22

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... man falling.

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T.C. shooting.

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... again hiting the man.

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(close) The two children.

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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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