Pocket Cinephile Western Essentials - #5. The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah, 1969

Peckinpah's film is, to appropriate the term in its purest from, a punk Western, loud, furious, violent, and necessarily subversive. What's more, the film counts among its cast Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, and Strother Martin, as fine a trio of character actors as have ever stalked the West.

Also, as Kris Kristofferson puts it (here with a little help from Donnie Fritts): "Sam Peckinpah era un hombre for sure."