The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch directed by Sam Peckinpah, is a 1969 Western film about an aging outlaw gang at the Texas-Mexico border trying to exist in the modern world of 1913. The film was controversial because of its violence and the portrayal of the crude men trying to survive the era.

What do you know about the Western The Wild Bunch?
Try this Alan's Western FUN Trivia quiz.

1. Pike Bishop, the leader of a gang of aging outlaws, is seeking an elusive retirement with one final score, beginning with the robbery of a bank containing a payload of silver. Who played Pike Bishop?

• Randolph Scott
• William Holden
• Chuck Connors

2. Who played Tector Gorch?

• Ben Johnson
• Buck Taylor
• Ward Bond

3. Who did Ernest Borgnine play in The Wild Bunch?

• Ernie Pyle
• Dutch Engstrom
• Lyle Gorch

4. Who was NOT a writer of the film?

• Walon Green
• Roy N. Sickner
• Paul Fix

5. The name "The Wild Bunch" originally came from real-life western outlaw Butch Cassidy. At age 30 he started his own gang of outlaws, who were quickly christened "The Wild Bunch" by the press.

• True or False?

6. Every time the gang crosses from Texas into Mexico, the river is running to the west. The Rio Grande actually flows in the opposite direction.

• True or False

7. Who played Mexican Gen. Mapache?

• Emilio Fernández
• José Chávez
• Pedro Galván

8. Who played Deke Thornton?

• Richard Harris
• Brian Keith
• Robert Ryan

9. Who did Bo Hopkins play?

• Clarence "Crazy" Lee
• Harrigan
• Angel

10. The climatic gun battle sequence took 12 days to film. The crew nicknamed it the "Battle of Bloody Porch."

• True or False?

The Wild Bunch Answers

1. William Holden
2. Ben Johnson
3. Dutch Engstrom
4. Paul Fix
5. True
6. True
7. Emilio Fernández
8. Robert Ryan
9. Clarence "Crazy" Lee
10. True

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