The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah about an aging outlaw gang on the Texas-Mexico border, trying to exist in the changing "modern" world of 1913. The film was controversial because of its graphic violence and its portrayal of crude men attempting to survive by any available means.
It stars William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates. The screenplay was by Peckinpah and Walon Green.
The Wild Bunch is noted for intricate, multi-angle editing, using normal and slow motion images, a revolutionary cinema technique in 1969. The writing of Green, Peckinpah, and Roy N. Sickner was nominated for a best-screenplay Academy Award; Jerry Fielding's music was nominated for Best Original Score; Peckinpah was nominated for an Outstanding Directorial Achievement award by the Directors Guild of America; and cinematographer Lucien Ballard won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography.
In 1999, the U.S. National Film Registry selected it for preservation in the Library of Congress as culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant. The film was ranked 80th in the American Film Institute's 100 best American films, and the 69th most thrilling film. In 2008, the AFI revealed its "10 Top 10" of the best ten films in ten genres: The Wild Bunch ranked as the sixth-best Western.
"So much dreg like egg
Hanging from my leg
In front of my nose
After my ears
And running like rabbit
All that make believe
There is not mountain high enough
There is no river deep enough
And nobody can stop the wild spirit of the wild bunch"
Revenge with advantage
There's no dreaming, i'm screaming
Deep down, honey
Long as there's some money
Click-clack
For the men in black
Revenge with advantage
There's no dreaming i'm screaming
This is the wild bunch (x3)
Here comes the wild bunch, wild bunch
"Can over heels (x2)
??? Can over heels (x2)
Get down of your high horse, mister
Don't get large unless you have blood in the heart
No thanks friend
You don't insist on having under yourself or give you a
hand
Pleasure friend
You must be jim loid (x2)
Precise and safe as i describe than this night is
certainly everything i heard it ???
Hi, loid, i'm david crocket
Well, i heard a lot about you
I've heard a lot about you too
This is the wild bunch (x3)
Here comes the wild bunch, wild bunch
This is the wild bunch (x3)
Here comes the wild bunch, wild bunch
This is the wild bunch, baby
Here comes the wild bunch, baby