Episode 808: The Wild Bunch (1969)

Special Guests: Walon Green, Alfonso Arau, Lilia Castillo, Kathryn Jones, Bill Mesce
Guest Co-Hosts: Rob St. Mary, Josh Hadley

Rob St. Mary and Josh Hadley join Mike for The Wild Bunch (1969), Sam Peckinpah's blood-soaked western about Pike Bishop (William Holden) and his aging outlaws chasing one last job against Robert Ryan's bounty hunter (and former member of the gang). When one of their own, Angel, is taken by Mexican warlord Mapache (Emilio Fernandez), the gang has to decide if they're going to abandon or rescue their comrade.

We have a plethora of interviews for this one with actress Lilia Castillo, actor Alfonso Arau (Herrera), screenwriter Walon Green, Kathryn Jones, author of Tall in the Saddle: The Life of Ben Johnson, Hollywood's Real Cowboy and Bill Mesce, author of The Wild Bunch: The American Classic That Changed Westerns Forever.

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Buy The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film by W. K. Stratton

Music:
"La Golondrina" - Ecos Del Rocio

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Episode 129: Sorcerer (1977)

Special Guest: William Friedkin

Four men ride along dangerous mountain roads carrying nitro glycerin to put out an oil fire. That's the gist of William Friedkin's Sorcerer -- an adaptation of Georges Arnaud's Wages of Fear -- the movie that pushed the director to the brink.

We're joined by Eric Cohen of The Cinefiles.

Links:
Visit the Sorcerer blog
Buy Sorcerer on Blu-Ray
Buy The Friedkin Connection
Buy The Wages of Fear on DVD
Buy Violent Road on DVD
Buy Wages of Fear by George Arnaud
Follow William Friedkin on Twitter
Read an interview with William Friedkin from Vanity Fair
Read “No One Is Just Anything”: In William Friedkin’s ‘Sorcerer’, Four Reduced Men Must Gamble with Life to Give It Value by Tom Pelan
Read Violent Road: A Californian Wages of Fear? by Andrew Nette
Listen to our Cruising episode

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