Bad cut of the scene when the man hits the ground, he sinks into a pit up to his waist and we see it right away despite the change of scene (too late) 0:43
@@Dumptruck4Lif Speak for yourself, I saw this flaw at first glance, at the time no VHS to double check the scene Years later, I finally had confirmation thanks to the possibility of watching the scene again on VHS.
The Wild Bunch is one of the greatest westerns ever and is in my opinion Sam Peckinpahs finest film..and you only have this shootout to understand why this film remains so influential.
Saw this movie in 1969 when I was in high school. Abd to my ration have seen it 280-300 times in vhs and dvd. I turned 70yrs this morning. My grandfather was a Mexican cavalry officer in 1912-1923 in the time frame of this movie. I feel his presence in this film.
I can appreciate your obsession. I've watched it about 40 times. I can't count how many times I've watched Dr. Strangelove and Paths of Glory. Right now I"m obsessed with the 1962 Manchurian Candidate. And everything by Fellini. and Chinatown and Bitter Moon.
Great story. Thanks for sharing that. I saw it in 69 when debuted. I'm 73 and I've watched it at least a hundred times.. THEY WERE SINGIN' GATHERIN' AT THE RIVER!!!
0:27 That's the first time I've ever seen a movie actually showcase an M1897's capability of being slam-fired (holding down the trigger and firing every time the slide is pumped)
That montage at 0:26 seconds is amazing, the shooting through the windows with those pump shotguns and the glass breaking and the reactions. That Lou Lombardo did not get the Oscar for this shows you what they are worth. What a way to open your film. There had been touches of this style before, but never on this scale. Revolutionary.
One of Peckinpah's finest films. Great cast, fast action and very interesting story. Like Freddy said at the end, "It ain't like they used to be, but it'll do"...
@@blinko656 He was a drunken, ornery sonofabitch, but this may have contributed to the brilliance of about 5 of his movies; which are up there as some of the greatest ever made in cinematic history.
Just one of the best shootouts ever filmed. It has everything.....blood.....guns......dead bodies......and fantastic editing from Lou Lombardo and brilliant camerawork from Lucien "True Grit" Ballard. Great stuff.
For well over 40 yrs this was the best shoot out in movie history. It was only replaced by the shoot out from " Heat" This movie set the stage for violence that was all so callously enjoy today. No Peckinpah, no John Woo. Still has a R Rating to this very day. I know X rated films from that time that are now PG A lasting tribute to it's longevity.
@@andres65080 No one has ever surpassed the final shoot out from The Wild Bunch for pure aesthetic style and emotional power. Things that Michael Mann cannot touch. That sequence is even better than this one. And in my view, that one is the greatest violent sequence since Eisenstein's The Odessa Steps.
@James Estelle oh man if you haven't played Red Dead Redemption 2 then your in for a great time. It's a western lovers dream come true. It's a video game but it's very realistic and I highly recommend
Such an incredible scene. Remember : this was filmed in '68. Nothing -----ever---like this had ever been done before . My # 1 all-time film. A Masterpiece, from opening to very end credits. And yes : the " manliest" film ever made. --------WolfSky9, 71 y/o
What makes this such a brilliant movie is the cast it's perfection .Old school golden age of Hollywood actors ,Holden .Borgnine.,Johnson. Oats.Ryan and o"brian in a realistically violent western .These are bad men .But still have a code and honour between them ....."It ain't like it used to be .....but it will do "...one of the greatest last lines in the history of the movies .
Literally one of the most violent westerns I’ve seen, even by today’s standards. One of the only American movies from this era that gives the spaghettis being made over in Italy at the same time a run for their money in that department.
The robber failing from his horse slo-mo through the store window must have inspired a similar scene with "the Long Riders" during the Northfield Minnesota raid.
Fascinated by how much influence this film had on modern action cinema. The frenetic cutting, the shaky camera, the zooms, the whip pans, and the fundamental sense that violence is not a noble thing, it is ugly and disturbing.
John Woo,the legendary Hong Kong action movie director,always cites Peckingpah and specially The Wild Bunch as one of his main influences. The use of slow-motion,that John Woo uses frequently in his movies,is something he took from Peckingpah. Also,Walter Hill has cited this movie as the main inspiration for "Extreme Prejudice".
Violence can be a ugly thing, Immoral, unnecessary, it all depends on the circumstances surrounding the violence! Violence can be a very noble and necessary thing if the situation calls for it!
Peckinpah had more balls than all the rest of Hollywood put together. Who else would show their film's protagonists using old ladies as human shields? Or run right into a crowd of civilians so that dozens of them get mowed down by the gunfire instead of themselves? And as a result, Peckinpah was able to show violence without it looking cool or exciting. He would have been disgusted with how so many action films glorify violence and make it seem like fun.
Peckinpah like Sergio Leone showed the "Real" version of life in the Old West. Not the sanitized John Wayne/John Ford style Western films. The Wild Bunch broke the mold as to make a no-holes barred realistic take of western movies.
Absolutely right. He was ahead of his time and unsurprisingly was misunderstood by the mainstream. He never glorified violence, he in fact did the opposite by showing it's horrifying outcomes. Bad people do bad things and innocents suffer. In this scene Pike's decision to use the parade as a human shield is monstrous yet at the same time do Thornton's crew hold back? No they shoot indiscriminately, not caring who gets killed. This was/is the world when bad people get into desperate situations.
Yes,Sergio Corbucci also.Just check out the intro in ''Navajo Joe'',where the scalphunters are slaughtering the indian tribe,including women and children or ''Grande Silencio'',no Hollywood director would dare to shoot an ending like that.
RIP L.Q. Jones (08/19/27 - 07/09/22) 🙏One of our All Time Favorite Western Character Guys. RIP Bloody Sam 🙏and All 🙏Classic Western (1969) Warner Bros. Seven Arts. Old School Senior Veterans 🤠💕😊 @@stephengrant5700
What makes this scene special, this film special and Peckinpah special, is the reaction of the children near the end.Subteldy,sensitivity and emotion,from a director wrongly simplified as "Bloody Sam".
Peckinpah really knew how to capture the *weight* of a gun battle; the heavy lead ripping into human flesh, whilst simultaneously romanticising it in the beauty of movement.
Bilbo Swaggins If you've seen the whole movie, it's interesting how Pike, tells Dutch and Freddie, how they have airplanes and, they're"gonna use em in the War"? After they arrive at the village and go to talk with Mepache... They see a car and start talking about it. The story is supposed to take place in 1913. But, seems more like 1916-17...
peckinpah made this movie his way, and man, it turned out very great, with the excessive violence never seen before in american cinema besides a few films like "bonnie and clyde" from 1967. the excessive cutting, slow motion, and a few other things also made it significant, especially with the slam firing of a shotgun on 0:26 and strother martin shooting a man and then lq jones giving the last shot while the man dies in slow motion on 3:27. very few movies can rival "the wild bunch".
This is a great depiction of how shootings are in real life: confusion, violence, innocent people trapped between the gun fight, murdered and used as human shield.
Peckinpah was a genius who unfortunately fell victim to his demons. The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs are his finest films IMO. The Getaway is another good one.
+malti bon joy joy But hadn"t Borgnine served in the army before he became an actor? I didn't find the moment you were talking about, but I'm working on it :). What I did find funny, how busy that street was, like they were in New York :) .
Murphistic just watch him shoot that pistol. Every time he fires a shot he jerks the pistol forward as if he's casting a fishing rod. That's not how you shoot
Not that I disagree about this scene but is Hollywood really filled with super realistic gun violence now? And in all honesty 95% of the people who watch this don't care if thats how you shoot or not so it doesn't really matter anyhow
THE 1ST FILM TO SHOW REALISTIC VIOLENCE WAS ARTHUR PENN'S BONNIE AND CLYDE. THIS WAS FILMED IN 1966. THE WILD BUNCH WHICH WAS MADE IN 1969 TOOK VIOLENCE TO THE NEXT LEVEL. BOTH FILMS HAVE BECOME CLASSICS.
Recently through multiple viewings discovered the outlaw in the suit (gets shot in the face and blinded later) name is buck and the solider that has next to no lines and gets gunned down name is abe
Little known fact - Peckinpah made a prequel: The Tame Bunch. Using many of the same actors, they all played members of a local church and did things like helping old ladies to cross the street, providing shelter for the homeless and handing lost property in to the Sheriff’s Office. Why it bombed at the cinema is a mystery
The ones supposedly defending the railroad office just seem to be blasting away at anyone and everyone by the end of this clip, whether robbers or not.
Only Thornton (Robert Ryan) is getting direct hits on Pike's outlaw band, but his posse are such lousy shots that they're mostly shooting the civilians!
This movie in my view, had the number 1 shootout in movie history until it was detronthed by the movie Heat. Also dare I say, that without Sam Peckinpah there would not have been a John Woo. Old school Woo not hollywood watered down Woo.
That shot of the body falling in slow motion and being intercut with everything else is just the single greatest thing I've ever seen.
Bad cut of the scene when the man hits the ground, he sinks into a pit up to his waist and we see it right away despite the change of scene (too late) 0:43
@@markofeyner3838There’s no way a person watching this would notice that unless they had a magnifying glass and were playing the movie in slo-mo
@@Dumptruck4Lif Speak for yourself, I saw this flaw at first glance, at the time no VHS to double check the scene Years later, I finally had confirmation thanks to the possibility of watching the scene again on VHS.
The Wild Bunch is one of the greatest westerns ever and is in my opinion Sam Peckinpahs finest film..and you only have this shootout to understand why this film remains so influential.
Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia. My favorite…. Major Dundee.
Saw this movie in 1969 when I was in high school. Abd to my ration have seen it 280-300 times in vhs and dvd. I turned 70yrs this morning. My grandfather was a Mexican cavalry officer in 1912-1923 in the time frame of this movie. I feel his presence in this film.
I can appreciate your obsession. I've watched it about 40 times. I can't count how many times I've watched Dr. Strangelove and Paths of Glory. Right now I"m obsessed with the 1962 Manchurian Candidate. And everything by Fellini. and Chinatown and Bitter Moon.
Great story. Thanks for sharing that. I saw it in 69 when debuted. I'm 73 and I've watched it at least a hundred times.. THEY WERE SINGIN' GATHERIN' AT THE RIVER!!!
0:27 That's the first time I've ever seen a movie actually showcase an M1897's capability of being slam-fired (holding down the trigger and firing every time the slide is pumped)
Peckinpah was known for his eye for detail.
missed that originally, thanks for pointing it out! definitely one of my favourite shotguns of all time along with the winchester 87
That montage at 0:26 seconds is amazing, the shooting through the windows with those pump shotguns and the glass breaking and the reactions. That Lou Lombardo did not get the Oscar for this shows you what they are worth. What a way to open your film. There had been touches of this style before, but never on this scale. Revolutionary.
0:26 one of the few times you see an old Winchester pump being slam-fired in a film.
Pretty badass
One of Peckinpah's finest films. Great cast, fast action and very interesting story. Like Freddy said at the end,
"It ain't like they used to be, but it'll do"...
one of?
Had peckinpah done bonnie and clyde it would have been a much better film.
Realism and carnage was one of his best attributes
His best. Closely followed by *Ride the High Country* and *Strawdogs* in positions 2 and 3 for me.
I heard he was tough to work with...
@@blinko656 He was a drunken, ornery sonofabitch, but this may have contributed to the brilliance of about 5 of his movies; which are up there as some of the greatest ever made in cinematic history.
One of the greatest movies ever made, and one of my personal favorites
Just one of the best shootouts ever filmed.
It has everything.....blood.....guns......dead bodies......and fantastic editing from Lou Lombardo and brilliant camerawork from Lucien "True Grit" Ballard.
Great stuff.
This scene is a masterclass in editing.
Had the pleasure of meeting Ernest Borgnine and Bo Hopkins from this classic....Both were Gentlemen !
For well over 40 yrs this was the best shoot out in movie history. It was only replaced by the shoot out from " Heat" This movie set the stage for violence that was all so callously enjoy today. No Peckinpah, no John Woo. Still has a R Rating to this very day. I know X rated films from that time that are now PG A lasting tribute to it's longevity.
No kidding. Love that shot at the end to the guy's head.
@@andres65080 No one has ever surpassed the final shoot out from The Wild Bunch for pure aesthetic style and emotional power. Things that Michael Mann cannot touch. That sequence is even better than this one. And in my view, that one is the greatest violent sequence since Eisenstein's The Odessa Steps.
Don't forget the Car chase shootout from "The Corruptor". That's right up there with them.
Whoever setup this job must have had Dutch Vanderlinde as a friend.
@James Estelle oh man if you haven't played Red Dead Redemption 2 then your in for a great time. It's a western lovers dream come true. It's a video game but it's very realistic and I highly recommend
I guess Son
@@fonduaunoir8259 Yes that made my day thanks Dutch
@@charleshemphill6923 I NEED TO PLAY THAT GAME FR
I’m pretty sure this movie was one of the main inspirations for various story lines & characters-Dutch Vanderline included-in RDR2.
Such an incredible scene. Remember : this was filmed in '68. Nothing -----ever---like this had ever been done before . My # 1 all-time film. A Masterpiece, from opening to very end credits. And yes : the " manliest" film ever made. --------WolfSky9, 71 y/o
What makes this such a brilliant movie is the cast it's perfection .Old school golden age of Hollywood actors ,Holden .Borgnine.,Johnson. Oats.Ryan and o"brian in a realistically violent western .These are bad men .But still have a code and honour between them ....."It ain't like it used to be .....but it will do "...one of the greatest last lines in the history of the movies .
"Last line" maybe, in the sense of the movie not the characters. "Let's go. - Why not?" is much more legendary.
Literally one of the most violent westerns I’ve seen, even by today’s standards. One of the only American movies from this era that gives the spaghettis being made over in Italy at the same time a run for their money in that department.
One of my all time favorite westerns ! Great story, actors , action etc ! Bo Hopkins plays a great psychopath!
The robber failing from his horse slo-mo through the store window must have inspired a similar scene with "the Long Riders" during the Northfield Minnesota raid.
I walked into this movie cold thinking it was gonna be some B movie biker flick... instead it was the most amazing movie I had ever seen.
Fascinated by how much influence this film had on modern action cinema. The frenetic cutting, the shaky camera, the zooms, the whip pans, and the fundamental sense that violence is not a noble thing, it is ugly and disturbing.
John Woo,the legendary Hong Kong action movie director,always cites Peckingpah and specially The Wild Bunch as one of his main influences. The use of slow-motion,that John Woo uses frequently in his movies,is something he took from Peckingpah. Also,Walter Hill has cited this movie as the main inspiration for "Extreme Prejudice".
Violence can be a ugly thing, Immoral, unnecessary, it all depends on the circumstances surrounding the violence! Violence can be a very noble and necessary thing if the situation calls for it!
And yet this film does it way better than any other movie nowadays.
But with a style to it.
it is ugly and disturbing when applied to you
These first scenes were shot in my hometown (Parras, Mexico 🇲🇽 ) such an awesome movie
Peckinpah had more balls than all the rest of Hollywood put together. Who else would show their film's protagonists using old ladies as human shields? Or run right into a crowd of civilians so that dozens of them get mowed down by the gunfire instead of themselves?
And as a result, Peckinpah was able to show violence without it looking cool or exciting. He would have been disgusted with how so many action films glorify violence and make it seem like fun.
+JimmySteller
I see your point but I still think it's exciting!
Peckinpah like Sergio Leone showed the "Real" version of life in the Old West. Not the sanitized John Wayne/John Ford style Western films. The Wild Bunch broke the mold as to make a no-holes barred realistic take of western movies.
Absolutely right. He was ahead of his time and unsurprisingly was misunderstood by the mainstream. He never glorified violence, he in fact did the opposite by showing it's horrifying outcomes. Bad people do bad things and innocents suffer. In this scene Pike's decision to use the parade as a human shield is monstrous yet at the same time do Thornton's crew hold back? No they shoot indiscriminately, not caring who gets killed. This was/is the world when bad people get into desperate situations.
Yes,Sergio Corbucci also.Just check out the intro in ''Navajo Joe'',where the scalphunters are slaughtering the indian tribe,including women and children or ''Grande Silencio'',no Hollywood director would dare to shoot an ending like that.
This is very cool and exciting. Peckinpah didn't realize how much folks enjoy seeing carnage.
"They was playin' Gather at the River! You know that one? SING IT!"
This is one of the finest Westerns ever made.
RIP Bo Hopkins...as of this writing, one of the very few surviving actors of this classic.
LQ Jones still around
No. Dead too.
RIP L.Q. Jones (08/19/27 - 07/09/22) 🙏One of our All Time Favorite Western Character Guys. RIP Bloody Sam 🙏and All 🙏Classic Western (1969) Warner Bros. Seven Arts. Old School Senior Veterans 🤠💕😊 @@stephengrant5700
@@stephengrant5700 No, sadly passed away on 7/9 2022. Jaime "Angel" Sanchez and Alfonso "Damn gringos!" Arau are the last surviving main characters.
Sam Peckinpah's violent scenes editing was so iconic....
"Man, they're blowin' this town all to hell!"
Most incredible Western ever
Damn, Sam pekinpah invented rdr2 like nearly 60 years before rockstar did
1:53 the Long Riders scene had to be inspired by this.
What a crazy battle. Early days of the 1911 pistol and pump shotgun too.
Brilliant western! Ultimately it's about honour,loyalty and being true to your own beliefs.
I really miss Red Dead Redemption online Xbox. 1911 - 1914
Noodles37UK lol funny cuz this is set in 1913, so who's to say this isn't an online match lmao jk.
Get xbox one compativility, it still has a decent player base
"man we're blowin this town all ta hell!!" love it.
CDR Knight haha loved that line with that either southern accent lol
Hahah when I was a kid watching this with my dad he always loved the "I can nail him" line
The greatest action sequence ever filmed. You can watch this 100 times and see something new each time.
All that carnage for a few bags of washers 😂
.....SILVER RINGS!!!
What makes this scene special, this film special and Peckinpah special, is the reaction of the children near the end.Subteldy,sensitivity and emotion,from a director wrongly simplified as "Bloody Sam".
It's unbelievable that this film wasn't even nominated for Best Editing.
One of the best iconic intros in cinema history.
AWESOME western classic movie also another one of my favorite
Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece the wild bunch is one of the finest action movies ever made, this inspired john woo, etc
The guy giving the older lady a earful of his tongue killed me.
01:24 The "woman" is a stunt man dressed in women's clothes. I love it.
looks like the guy from monty python
Still happens a lot these days tbh.
I don't know who directed this but my god they had balls
OutdoorsUnlimited 101 Sam Peckinpah
Every actor was perfet - except Angel, who looked like anybody - except Mexican.
Congrats on being fully clueless.
@@jaysparc let's be nice
Sam Peckimpah
The greatest Western ever made.
perfect action movie from sam peckinpah,i love those scenes,a real master !
wow this is the first time I see such a shootout scene from a 1969 movie, it's excellent
such a brilliant movie, he set the stage for the future. RIP mr. peckinpah
Peckinpah really knew how to capture the *weight* of a gun battle; the heavy lead ripping into human flesh, whilst simultaneously romanticising it in the beauty of movement.
A true classic it gets better everytime that I watch it.
Great western👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼The final Bloody Porch Battle is epic!!!
Only Sam peckinpah can show the violence in raw .
2:36 my favorite part.
0:36 The guy falling off the roof🤯
The fact that this film takes place in 1913 really feels like Red Dead Redemption took inspiration
Bilbo Swaggins If you've seen the whole movie, it's interesting how Pike, tells Dutch and Freddie, how they have airplanes and, they're"gonna use em in the War"? After they arrive at the village and go to talk with Mepache... They see a car and start talking about it.
The story is supposed to take place in 1913. But, seems more like 1916-17...
peckinpah made this movie his way, and man, it turned out very great, with the excessive violence never seen before in american cinema besides a few films like "bonnie and clyde" from 1967. the excessive cutting, slow motion, and a few other things also made it significant, especially with the slam firing of a shotgun on 0:26 and strother martin shooting a man and then lq jones giving the last shot while the man dies in slow motion on 3:27.
very few movies can rival "the wild bunch".
Best western ever
The whole premise of RDR2 is just so Wild Bunch in a way.
Dutch and company were inspired by butch Cassidy's wild bunch one of the last western gangs in that time
2:38 Rest in peace, Tuba Guy
This is a great depiction of how shootings are in real life: confusion, violence, innocent people trapped between the gun fight, murdered and used as human shield.
That looked like a tough scene to shoot. Organized chaos.
It's crazy how no movie since has done better action scenes than this. Even Hard-Boiled falls short.
That Slam Fire got me pumped 0:26
Peckinpah was a genius who unfortunately fell victim to his demons. The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs are his finest films IMO. The Getaway is another good one.
His influence was Brilliant!
They really taught actors nothing about shooting back then. The way Ernest borgnine keeps trying to throw bullets out of his gun is priceless lol
+malti bon joy joy But hadn"t Borgnine served in the army before he became an actor? I didn't find the moment you were talking about, but I'm working on it :).
What I did find funny, how busy that street was, like they were in New York :) .
Murphistic just watch him shoot that pistol. Every time he fires a shot he jerks the pistol forward as if he's casting a fishing rod. That's not how you shoot
+malti bon joy joy Now I get it :) . Indeed, it looks funny and I suppose he couldn't aim very well.
Not that I disagree about this scene but is Hollywood really filled with super realistic gun violence now? And in all honesty 95% of the people who watch this don't care if thats how you shoot or not so it doesn't really matter anyhow
Well I bet that most criminals in early 1900s were shooting just like Borgnine in this film
absoulutely superb western all the american greats in this william ernest warren bo simply brilliant a joy ken uk
THE 1ST FILM TO SHOW REALISTIC VIOLENCE WAS ARTHUR PENN'S BONNIE AND CLYDE. THIS WAS FILMED IN 1966. THE WILD BUNCH WHICH WAS MADE IN 1969 TOOK VIOLENCE TO THE NEXT LEVEL. BOTH FILMS HAVE BECOME CLASSICS.
They really had to make so many blood capsules burst for that movie!! :-)
Recently through multiple viewings discovered the outlaw in the suit (gets shot in the face and blinded later) name is buck and the solider that has next to no lines and gets gunned down name is abe
the part where a little girl got down to help her father when he was shot was really sad
Bo Hopkins effortlessly stealing every scene he’s in. Just like he did in every other movie he ever appeared in.
A hero is where your sentiments lay. At 1:40
best western ever. what tombstone should have been.
Little known fact - Peckinpah made a prequel: The Tame Bunch. Using many of the same actors, they all played members of a local church and did things like helping old ladies to cross the street, providing shelter for the homeless and handing lost property in to the Sheriff’s Office. Why it bombed at the cinema is a mystery
This movie was very violent, a signature of a Sam Peckinpah movie.
This could well be the first movie filmed in confusovision.
This film definitely does the "rapid camera angle switches" better than The Crazies did.
RIP Bo.
Believe-it-or-else but when this came out in 1969 it almost got an X Rating for violence!
The ones supposedly defending the railroad office just seem to be blasting away at anyone and everyone by the end of this clip, whether robbers or not.
Best western by far ,hell one of the best film. They shoot each other if you pass wind there way. Someone else NO! NO!!😮
I bet the actor playing the young psycho holding the 3 hostages in the bank was in real life a nice guy that felt bad about kissing the old lady lol.
Bo Hopkins
@@freddy8479 Oh is that his name? Thanks!
@@blockmasterscott UR WELCOME
3:10 I f i was there, I’ll try to save those little angels.
RIP Bo Hopkins...aka Crazy Lee
0:15 let the first battle begin. ⚔⚔⚔⚔⚔⚔⚔⚔⚔⚔⚔⚔⚔⚔
Why does Borgnine keep pumping his 1911 didn't anyone tell him it was a semi-automatic not a shotgun.
Will Boyd like throwing the bullets out of the gun !
Can you please explain I know little about guns
This movie owns everything to the editing ( by Lou Lombardo).
Sam "Ultra-violent" Peckinpah and I eat popcorn while I watch his movies and enjoy...
best western ever
This film was notorious for showing innocent bystanders being gunned down in cold blood.
Big Sam disn't give a shit about the collateral damage. But then hold on - wasn't this made during the Vietnam War? Hmmmm
Only Thornton (Robert Ryan) is getting direct hits on Pike's outlaw band, but his posse are such lousy shots that they're mostly shooting the civilians!
That poor bank teller...And that poor tuba player - and that poor farmer. And that poor woman who got trampled...and those poor stuntmen.
This movie in my view, had the number 1 shootout in movie history until it was detronthed by the movie Heat. Also dare I say, that without Sam Peckinpah there would not have been a John Woo. Old school Woo not hollywood watered down Woo.
Sam Peckinpahs bloodbath of a western is amazing Check out Cross of Iron
Peckinpah often had shotguns in his films, ie Strawdogs, and fairly bloddh. Did he not do the Steve McQueen flick The Getaway ?
@ 3:20 see the guy upper right pulling the horse down for the stunt
great movie
As direction goes this is a complicated scene, primo editing > best use of extras as fodder and human shields