Wayne was perfectly cast as the dying gunfighter disturbed in his dotage by young tyros out to test their mettle against him. Beautifully shot in cold blues and greys, this classic evolves slowly into one of Wayne's finest and, as it turned out, his last role.
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THE WILD BUNCH (1969)
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Peckinpah completely rewrites John Ford's Western mythology by looking at the passing of the Old West from the point of view of marginalised outlaws rather than law-abiding settlers. While never ignoring their brutality he contrasts their code of loyalty with that of the corrupt railroad magnates. In purely cinematic terms, the film is a savagely beautiful spectacle, Lucien Ballard's superb cinematography complementing Peckinpah's darkly elegiac vision.
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