Peckinpah’s Violent Masterpiece ‘The Wild Bunch’ Turns 50

Fifty years on, director Sam Peckinpah’s masterpiece The Wild Bunch still has the ability to shock with its depiction of the last remaining outlaws in the Wild West going out with guns blazing and blood spilling. Over on the movies and culture desk at Ultimate Classic Rock, I look at just how affecting the film was both to audiences at the time and how it would influence directors of the future.