The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

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:

Walon Green as himself
Newell Alexander as Cliff Coleman, William Holden
Edmond O'Brien as himself
James R. Silke as Friend / colleague
Mitch Carter as Gordon Dawson, Strother Martin
Jerry Fielding as himself
Sharon Peckinpah as herself
L. Q. Jones as himself
Ernest Borgnine as himself
Peter Rainer as Bud Hulburd
Ed Harris as Sam Peckinpah

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).

Home media

The documentary was included on the 2006 and 2007 DVD and Blu-ray releases of The Wild Bunch.