Still can't comprehend it's been 50 years........
50 years since the summer of 1969.........when BQ watched three westerns so insanely different from one another, they could have been filmed on different planets......
Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch", Sergio Leone's "Once Upon A Time In The West" and Henry Hathaway's "True Grit"......
BQ's solemn mission this summer: to cover each of these films in detail individually.......
To kick off things, this post just serves to alert all you world-wide 'Wild Buncher's' (this group includes pretty much everyone who loves cinema, including me).......your book's here.
It's the book you always dreamed somebody would get around to writing one day......a meticulous recounting of the genesis, production and aftermath of "The Wild Bunch", Sam Peckinpah's uncompromising bloody epic of the waning days of the American West......
And everything you might have imagined that went on during the production of the film........yes, it did. And then some. Plus some other crazy stuff you may not have even thought of.
That's all I'll say. 4 stars (*****). No self-respecting Buncher should be without this book.
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