The Wild Bunch, 1969, The Dirty Dozen, 1967, August 18, 2012

Saturday, August 18 – 7:30 PM
THE WILD BUNCH, 1969, Warner Bros., 145 min. Saddle up for director Sam Peckinpah’s magnificent, ultra-violent Western, starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Warren Oates and Jaime Sanchez as a band of doomed outlaws trying to outrun history. A film that forever changed the way violence was depicted and perceived in the movies. Co-starring Robert Ryan, Edmond O’Brien, L.Q. Jones, Bo Hopkins and Strother Martin. [35mm]
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THE DIRTY DOZEN, 1967, Warner Bros., 149 min. Dir. Robert Aldrich. Lee Marvin whips a group of unruly criminals (including John Cassavetes and Charles Bronson) into shape for a WWII suicide mission, and the result is an action epic that deals with issues of race, class and war in a massively entertaining context. Ernest Borgnine is an ornery general making Marvin’s life hell. [35mm]
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