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Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch directed by
Sam Peckinpah, is a 1969 Western film about an aging outlaw gang at the
Texas-Mexico border trying to exist in the modern world of 1913. The
film was controversial because of its violence and the portrayal of the
crude men trying to survive the era.
What do you know about the Western Wild Bunch?
Try this Western Film FUN Trivia.
"Check Your Answers" at the bottom of the page
Choose an answer from the three choices and True/False offered after
each question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.
1) Pike Bishop, the leader of a gang
of aging outlaws, is seeking an elusive retirement with one final score,
beginning with the robbery of a bank containing a payload of silver. Who
played Pike Bishop?
Randolph Scott
William Holden
Chuck Connors
2)
Who played Tector Gorch?
Ben Johnson
Buck Taylor
Ward Bond
3) Who did Ernest
Borgnine play in The Wild Bunch?
Ernie Pyle
Dutch Engstrom
Lyle Gorch
4)
Who was NOT a writer of the
film?
Walon Green
Roy N. Sickner
Paul Fix
5) The name "The Wild Bunch"
originally came from real-life western outlaw Butch Cassidy. At age 30
he started his own gang of outlaws, who were quickly christened "The
Wild Bunch" by the press.
True or False?
6) Every time the gang
crosses from Texas into Mexico, the river is running to the west. The
Rio Grande actually flows in the opposite direction.
True or False?
7) Who played Mexican Gen.
Mapache?
Emilio Fernandez
Jos Chavez
Pedro Galvan
8) Who played Deke Thornton?
Richard Harris
Brian Keith
Robert Ryan
9) Who did Bo Hopkins play?
Clarence "Crazy" Lee
Harrigan
Angel
10)
The climatic gun battle sequence took 12 days to
film. The crew nicknamed it the "Battle of Bloody Porch."
True or False?
Wild Bunch [Answers]
1
William Holden
2
Ben Johnson
3
Dutch Engstrom
4
Paul Fix
5
True
6
True
7
Emilio Fernandez
8
Robert Ryan
9
Clarence "Crazy" Lee
10
True
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