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Film Screening: Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch"

Date
Wed February 12th 2014, 7:00pm
Location
Building 260, Room 113
Speaker(s): Samuel Gibson
鈥淲e all dream of being a child again, even the worst of us. Perhaps the worst most of all.鈥 Peckinpah鈥檚 violent and nostalgic farewell to the Old West has William Holden and Ernest Borgnine lead a band of ageing outlaws as they seek a quiet retirement, fleeing to Mexico following a final bank raid. Their past follows them down in the form of a group of bounty hunters marshalled by a former member of the bunch. Times have changed, technology has advanced, their style of life is disappearing but when one of their own is captured the choice of escape or a suicidal rescue mission it becomes apparent that the wild must go down with the Wild West.