The greatest western without question is Sam Peckinpaugh's tale of aging manly men caught in between two clashing and very different worlds. One world is a live by the gun die by the gun code of honor west. The other world contains the horrors of modern technology. Cars,airplane,bombs,machine guns. This movie may have the highest body count of any movie ever. Screen violence was practically invented in this movie. Squib technology would go on to The Godfather,Taxi Driver,and ever other movie since. But more than violence it's about conflicting and changing morals in a conflicting and changing world. And it's about honor.
Review of The Wild Bunch
