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.The surviving brother (before he died) told his tale to a Franciscan friar, which was chronicled in an ancient, leather-bound manuscript that Donovan displayed.Peter admitted that he had an on and off relationship ("It""s complicated") with a girl named Gwen Stacy, a work-study employee at Oscorp.[Nineteen year old, James Dean-fixated Starkweather was joined by his fourteen year-old girlfriend during heir nine-day flight.