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The Wild Bunch
Why this pick
Its frontier violence is harsh, morally exhausted and unsentimental, with a doomed group moving through a landscape where old codes have become lethal.
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MOVIE1972 1h 43m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Following mistreatment by agency authorities, Ulzana breaks out of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation with a small Raid (military). Soon news reaches the local military commander, who sends riders to alert local homesteads. Both troopers are separately ambushed; one is dragged away while the other shoots the settler woman he is escorting and then himself. The warriors play catch with his heart. The woman's husband, who stayed behind to protect his farm, is captured and tortured to death. United States Army Reconnaissance McIntosh (Lancaster) is given the job of finding Ulzana (Martinez) with a few dozen soldiers led by an inexperienced lieutenant, Garnett DeBuin (Davison). The small cavalry column includes a veteran sergeant (Jaeckel) and Apache scouts Ke-Ni-Tay (Luke).
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Joaquín Martínez
Ulzana
Douglass Watson
Maj. Cartwright
Dran Hamilton
Mrs. Riordan
Gladys Holland
Mrs. Rukeyser
Margaret Fairchild
Mrs. Abbie Ginsford
Richard Farnsworth
Trooper
Burt Lancaster
McIntosh
Bruce Davison
Lt. Garnett DeBuin