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Film

The Wild Bunch (1969)

When

Monday July 7, 2008 (6:30 & 9:15pm)

Where

The Castro Theatre

429 Castro St

415.621.5288

Price

$9.50

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The Castro Theatre says…

Sam Peckinpah's breakthrough film, The Wild Bunch tore the Western away from pat moralism in a flash of boundless violence — all the better to reflect the dark mood of America in 1969. William Holden, Robert Ryan, and Warren Oates head up an unusual cast that combines hungry young faces with grizzly Hollywood veterans representing the dying genre. The plot concerns an outlaw gang's quixotic voyage to Mexico, but all metaphorical signs point to Vietnam, with a culminating bloodbath that seals a horrifically lucid vision of the American apocalypse.