The Wild Bunch Page #8

One soldier leaves the train, investigating the small buildings

and possible hiding places, but they don't find the wild bunch.

No words. Everyone knows his job.)

(Rhythmic repetition of steam blowing from train engine)

ANGEL:
(to the man handling the water pump) Just do your work.

(Lyle controls the front of the train, Angel and Pike the engine,

Dutch the rear part. Angel goes back to the wagon with the

soldiers.)

(ANGEL uncouples the wagon with the soldiers (the seats have

leather furniture) and they go with the guns. THornton gets aware

of the manoevre.)

22 The Wild Bunch Express

Thornton:
(seeing the departing front part of the train, after

looking at the soldiers - nearly children, to his men) Let's go.

DUTCH:
(seeing the bounty hunters leaving the train on their

horses) They are coming.

(Officer wakes up and recognizes that the front part of the train

is running away and the bounty hunters are not here anymore.)

DUTCH:
They are coming.

PIKE:
(to the man at the engine) Faster.

(Accelerating the train causes Dutch to stumble and fall. He

catches hold between two wagons but the two soldiers, whom he

previously guarded now opened fire at him.)

PIKE:
(to the machine man) Get over.

(Lyle shoots the two soldiers who tried to raise weapon against

him)

(Angel shoots the soldiers who fire at Dutch and helps Dutch out

of his dangerous position.)

(The young soldiers are not able to get the horses out of the

wagon and start the pursuit.)

Officer:
Get that ramp up!

Get that horse out of here!

Bring them all out! Get them out!

Get over here!

Get them over here! Get those horses!

(Tector and Sykes waiting beside the tracks with the wagon, the

train arrives.)

(Soldiers:
)

Officer:
Hurry up.

Recruit:
Your horse kicked me.

Officer:
Run them up along here!

Where the hell is my horse?

(Wild bunch:
)

(unloading the train loading the wagon)

DUTCH:
Hey, we got grenades!

PIKE:
Hurry up! We gotta get out of here!

DUTCH:
Be careful!

(Soldiers:
)

Officer:
Line up in two columns!

Corporal, give us a hand here!

(Wild bunch:
)

DUTCH:
Hey Pike, we're all ready!

23 Backtrack

(Pike lets the train move back...)

PIKE:
Let's go!

(The train passes by the bounty hunters, horses neigh, black smoke

comes out of the train...)

Officer:
Get after that horse. That was my horse! Get after him.

Get out. (sees the train coming)

Recruit 1:
Get that damn horse off my butt.

Officer:
Get those horses out of here. The train is coming.

Recruit 2:
Train?

Recruit 3:
Where?

Recruit 4:

What train?

I don't see any.

Get that goddamn horse off my foot!

(Train crashes into the wagon, a horse and two soldiers are

falling...)

24 Standoff at the bridge

(The bounty hunters reach the place where the wild bunch unloaded

the train)

Coffer:
(Catching the track of the wagon of the wild bunch)

Hey T.C.

Officer:
Corporal, ride back to the telegraph at Todos Malos and

tell them the railroad deputies robbed the train and we're in

pursuit!

Corporal:
Yes sir.

(Shield at the bridge: You are leaving the United States)

(While the wagon is crossing the bridge Angel is lightning the

dynamite fuses.)

(The bounty hunters arrive. Rapid exchange of gunfire, horses

neigh and shuffle. One wheel of the wagon breaks in the wooden

boards of the bridge.)

ANGEL:
Come on, it's lit.

(Bridge creaks, men grunt. Lyle and Dutch tries to lift the wagon,

while Sykes tries to get the horses going. Pike is firing at the

bounty hunters, who get off their horses and also go into firing

position. The soldiers arrive. The bounty hunters open fire at the

soldiers.)

THORNTON:
(yells) Don't shoot! It's the army!

(Meanwhile the wagon was lifted and continues to roll.)

DUTCH:
Come on, Pike!

25 Tip of the hat

(While the wagon of the wild bunch is rolling along the bounty

hunters and Thornton are on the bridge opening fire from their

guns.

The bridge explodes and the bounty hunters fall with their horses

into the river. One horse is galopping over the bridge.

The soldiers are looking.)

PIKE:
Let's go!

(Dutch has some problems with his horse) Come on you lazy bastard.

DUTCH:
I'm coming, damn it.

Through the Mountain Desert

26 Bottom of the bottle

(Greasing the wagon)

PIKE:
IS it allright?

DUTCH:
Yes.

SYKES:
Where are they supposed to meet us?

PIKE:
Agua Verde or before.

But when we do meet them, don't expect any open arms.

DUTCH:
Least we won't have to worry about Deke Thornton.

PIKE:
(laughing) Hell no. Not after riding a half case of dynamite

into the river.

SYKES:
Don't expect him to stay there. He'll be along and you know

it.

(They are drinking a quarter-full bottle of whiskey, Pike starts,

everyone gets his share, exept Lyle. Everyone is laughing.)

27 Mapache under attack

(Bounty hunters)

Man:
Besides my hair is wet.

(The village is under mortar fire and cavallery attack. The red

car of the General is placed on a wagon of the train, a woman is

singing. A telegram arrives at the telegram station.)

Man:
Pancho Villa sont attacka.

Boy:
A telegram from San Antonio.

General:
The gringos assaulted the train. They got the guns.

Zamorra:
We must go.

General:
(To Herrera)

Take the necessary people and take the road to Agua Verde.

Convince the gringos to give you the guns. I'll wait in the

village.

Herrera:
If the gringos refuse.

General. Matalos.

(to the Pancho Villa troops)

The next time we meet I'll destroy you.

(The little boy still standing proudly beside the General.

Obviously the General said the sentence just to impress the boy.)

Zamorra:
Let's leave General.

General:
Vamonos.

28 "We're after men"

(We see through Dutch's looking glass Thornton and the bounty

hunters riding through a desert valley.)

DUTCH:
He's still heading east.

PIKE:
Are they bluffing, or did they really miss it.

DUTCH:
I'd say they missed it.

Take a look.

There's only five left.

Coffer:
Hell, we lost them.

Man:
I don't see how. Unless it was in the big valley where the

ground was hard.

T.C.:
There was but one way they could take a wagon out of there,

and this is it.

THORNTON:

They didn't take it out.

We haven't lost them.

I could point to them right now.

Sit still damn it!

You think Pike and Sykes haven't been watching us?

They know what this is about. What do I have?

Nothing but you chicken stealing gutter trash with not even 60

rounds between you.

We're after men.

And I wish to God I was with them.

The next time you make a mistake, I'll ride off and let you die.

Come on.

29 Robbery proof guns

(Dutch and Pike through a looking glass observing Thornton)

DUTCH:
I never figured they'd come down here after us.

How much you reckon we could be worth.

PIKE:
Depends on how hungry they are.

You better stay here and look out for big hats.

I'll go down and start rigging the fireworks.

DUTCH:
All right.

(Pike goes to the wagon, the wild bunch sitting in the shadow of

the wagon)

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