Although the film was released in mid-1946, it was actually filmed mostly in the fall of 1944 (about six months before Bacall and Bogart were married).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."In Apollo Creed""s office, the champ mentioned that since he was promoting his own matches, he was pressuring for a rematch against Rocky, the Italian Stallion, to prove for himself that he could decisively win, and regain respect: "There""s a lot of people out there accusing me of having the fight fixed, accusing me of being a fake, and insulting my kids at school.Neo was shown how Smith could assimilate another""s body (as he did with Bane), but Neo resisted and fought off the numerous clones.