The End
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The oldest of them stepped forward and struck me on the chest with an open palm. Confident and aggressive.
‘We saw you walking up the beach,’ he said, smiling.
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The Duel
Posted in The Duel with tags ants, bible, boaz, faith, naomi, Pike Bishop, Russel Hoban, ruth, scorpions, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz, The Wild Bunch, William Holden on November 18, 2024 by Jarrod Boyle
Americans, Scorpions and Ants
Posted in Fiction, Film with tags A Farewell to Arms, a Revolution in Hollywood and the making of a Legendary Film, ants, Camille Paglia, Coppola, De Palma, Emilio Fernandez, Ernest Hemingway, Pike Bishop, Sam Peckinpah, scorpions, Scorsese, The Wild Bunch, The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, W.K. Stratton, Warner Brothers, William Holden on June 30, 2024 by Jarrod Boyle
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The governing metaphor of Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch is impressed on both protagonist and audience alike in the first moments of the film.
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Ernest Borgnine RIP
Posted in Film, Real Men with tags Ernest Borgnine, Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch, William Holden on July 9, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Ernest Borgnine, who co-starred alongside William Holden in Peckinpah’s 1969 masterpiece, The Wild Bunch, has died of kidney failure, aged 95.
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