When director Sam Peckinpah made 1969’s The Wild Bunch — a highlight of the spring film series at the Denver Art Museum — he’d been working in Hollywood for well over a decade and had three previous ...

Pike Bishop looking around in The Wild Bunch - Warner Bros./Seven Arts It might be hard to imagine nowadays, but there once was a time when Westerns were as popular as superhero movies. In fact, ...

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There's perhaps no decade in cinema that did more for a specific genre than the '60s did for Westerns. Even though there are a myriad of brilliant Westerns that came out in the classical era of ...

When it comes to Westerns, there are a few that some could consider perfect. Admittedly, taste is certainly a factor here as it can sometimes differ between viewers. But when it comes to the Western ...

When Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch was released in 1969, it featured an ensemble cast of on-screen legends with William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson, and Warren ...

"Gold photographed the boys in the Warner Brothers parking lot, walking toward the sun so you just got the silhouette," says Adams about the poster. Bierut notes that use of an exaggerated shadow has ...