And their world was populated with every miscreant and degenerate on the plains. The protagonists of “The Wild Bunch” were callous, unsympathetic real men. Gone were the happy yet determined pioneer families of the 1940s and ‘50s. “The Wild Bunch” featured more bloodshed than we had ever seen it redefined the Western – into a grittier, more hard-boiled version of its former wistful interpretation. In 1969, Sam Peckinpah introduced moviegoers to the violent Western.
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