BackgroundThe Wild Bunch(1969) is director/co-writer Sam Peckinpah""s provocative, brilliant yet controversial Western, shocking for its graphic and elevated portrayal of violence and savagely-explicit carnage, yet hailed for its truly realistic and reinterpreted vision of the dying West in the early 20th century." Gruver agreed: "She has an enormous capacity to fulfill a bathing suit." Gruver attempted to discourage Kelly from risking marriage to his sweetheart Katsumi: ("Don""t you think you""re taking a risk in marrying this Japanese girl?").Her father wishes that his petulant daughter won""t make a "spectacle" of herself, "running about over a man who""s not in love with you.Chewie""s nose led him to the remains of an animal carcass on a pole - it was a trap, and the group was snared in a large net and hoisted high into the air.