Top cast:Billy Quirk,Mary Pickford,Frank Powell
Director:Francesco Bertolini&Adolfo Padovan&Giuseppe de Liguoro
Genre:Western
Region:South Africa
Year:2007
Storyline:(Additional dialogue was added to the screenplay by novelist James Hilton and Robert Benchley and over a dozen other uncredited scriptwriters.(It was met with rave reviews in Europe, and won Best Picture at the Brussels Film Festival).It was completely un-nominated for Academy Awards -- bypassed by the Academy that instead gave Best Picture honors to he frothy, somewhat distasteful musical tale ofGigi (1958)(with a record nine Oscar wins), about a young woman trained to be a courtesan of a wealthy suitor.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.But then an investigation reported that an onboard saboteur had ripped out the buffer circuit of the caterpillar drive.