Recalling "The Wild Bunch", as the Old West faced the 20th Century

I seem to remember seeing “The Wild Bunch” when I was in the Army in 1969, when other soldiers at Fort Eustis said that Sam Peckinpah’s film for Warner Brothers/Seven Arts was the most violent western ever made.

The criminal gang wanted to make one last score as the West moved into the 20^th Century (in 1913), but ran into equally ruthless gangs in Mexico – long before today’s immigration debate.  The director’s cut lasts 144 minutes.

  

The film was originally released in 70 MM, but was re-released with various improvements in Dolby in 1995. 

  

I seem to remember three particularly violent shootouts.