The Wild Bunch 日落黄沙
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![The director sets up the climactic gun battle sequences at](/Images/godic/202502/16/Wild_Bunch_Agua_Verde5139.jpg")
![Peckinpah's reconception of Pike Bishop was strongly influenced by actor William Holden.](/Images/godic/202502/16/Wild_Bunch_Peckinpah_&_Holden5139.jpg")
![Peckinpah (far right) directs the opening scene as the Bunch ride into Starbuck.](/Images/godic/202502/16/Wild_Bunch_still_opening_scene5139.jpg")
The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American epic Western Technicolor and Panavision 70mm 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.