The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage is a 1996 American short documentary film directed and edited by Paul Seydor. The occasion for the creation of this documentary was the discovery of 72 minutes of silent black-and-white 16 mm film footage of Sam Peckinpah and company on location in northern Mexico during the filming of The Wild Bunch.
Cast Source:TCM.com Walon Green as himself (voice) Newell Alexander as Cliff Coleman, William Holden (voice) Edmond O'Brien as himself (voice) James R. Silke as Friend / colleague (voice) (as Jim Silke) Mitch Carter as Gordon Dawson, Strother Martin (voice) Jerry Fielding as himself (voice) Sharon Peckinpah as herself (voice) L. Q. Jones as himself (voice) Ernest Borgnine as himself (voice) Peter Rainer as Bud Hulburd (voice) Ed Harris as Sam Peckinpah (voice)
Reception Michael Sragow wrote that the film is "a wonderful introduction to Peckinpah’s radically detailed historical film about American outlaws in revolutionary Mexico — a masterpiece that’s part bullet-driven ballet, part requiem for Old West friendship and part existential explosion. Seydor’s movie is also a poetic flight on the myriad possibilities of movie directing." Seydor and Redman were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)."Breathing Lessons" winning Best Documentary Short - Oscars on YouTube1997|Oscars.org
Home media The documentary was included on the 2006 and 2007 DVD and Blu-ray releases of The Wild Bunch.The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) - WorldCat.orgAmazon.com: The Wild Bunch (Blu-ray)
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External links
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage on MUBI Review