The Wild Bunch (1969) Review
The Wild Bunch (1969) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Peckinpah cut the violence at multiple film speeds and assembled it at a rate nobody had attempted, and the result changed how every action film since has…
Actor: Robert Ryan
Robert Ryan was nominated for Crossfire, playing an antisemitic murderer, and spent much of his career playing violent and prejudiced men.
He was in life a committed liberal and civil rights supporter, which he found ironic and discussed openly. The Wild Bunch, Bad Day at Black Rock and The Set-Up are the essential ones, the last playing a boxer refusing to take a dive in real time. He was a Marine and a college boxing champion.
