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The Proposition
Why this pick
Its sun-scorched brutality, doomed criminal code, and men cornered by a changing frontier echo Peckinpah’s mournful, unsentimental vision of outlaw loyalty.
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MOVIE1969 2h 25m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In Texas in 1913, Pike Bishop, the leader of a gang of aging outlaws, is seeking retirement with one final score: the robbery of a railroad office containing a cache of silver. They are ambushed by Pike's former partner, Deke Thornton, who is leading a posse of bounty hunters hired and deputized by the railroad. A bloody shootout kills several of the gang. Pike uses a serendipitous Temperance movement parade to shield their getaway, and many citizens are killed in the crossfire.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
William Holden
Pike Bishop
Edmond O'Brien
Freddie Sykes
Warren Oates
Lyle Gorch
Ben Johnson
Tector Gorch
Emilio Fernández
Gen. Mapache
Strother Martin
Coffer
Albert Dekker
Pat Harrigan
Bo Hopkins
Clarence 'Crazy' Lee