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THE WILD BUNCH
August 24, 2015  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 2:00 a.m. ET

 
As one of the final entries in today’s salute to Warren Oates, TCM at 2 a.m. ET presents one of the more infamous movies of the 1960s: Sam Peckinpah’s gritty Western The Wild Bunch, which in 1969 was widely derided, and just as widely hailed, for its slow-motion “ballet” of violence. Today, the gunplay in The Wild Bunch wouldn’t even register as extreme, much less spark a national debate. But times and tastes change, and this is one of the films that helped change them. William Holden, Robert Ryan star.
 
 
 
 
 
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