SYNOPSIS
It’s 1913, a bunch of outlaws, led by Pike Bishop, have been running rampant along the U.S.- Mexican border. Although this “bunch” of aging desperadoes make their fortunes through robbery and killing, they have a strict code of honour of which they are bound by. But their world is changing rapidly around them – progress is changing the land, and desperation is destroying the ethics of those around them. “The Wild Bunch” realize that their place in time is nearly at an end, and they decide to call it quits and retire after one final haul.
Holden is Pike Bishop, the charismatic, no-nonsense leader of the Bunch; Borgnine is Dutch, his dogged, faithful second-in-command; Jaime Sanchez is the alert, graceful Angel, the Bunch’s only Mexican (and its one out-and-out idealist); Warren Oates and Ben Johnson are the scurrilous Gorch brothers, Lyle and Tector; Bo Hopkins is Crazy Lee, who has unforgettable psychotic eyes. Pike’s nemeses are his ex-partner, Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan), a haunted man who has been hired out of Yuma Prison to hunt Pike down; the ruthless railroad security chief Harrigan (Albert Dekker); and a scurvy band of “gutter trash” (including Strother Martin and L.Q. Jones) out for bounty.
