FILM 1200: THE WILD BUNCH
TRIVIA: There were not enough
uniforms for all of the stunt people and extras in the gun battle. If someone
was filmed getting shot, the costume people would repair a uniform by washing
off the fake blood, taping and painting over the bullet holes, drying the paint
and sending either the same or a different performer out to get shot again.
According to Harrigan, Thornton is
Pike's Judas goat. A Judas goat is an animal trained to lead others into a
slaughterhouse. Its life is spared as it "betrays" its own kind.
Robert Ryan's incessant complaints
about not receiving top billing so annoyed director Sam Peckinpah that he
decided to "punish" him. In the opening credits, after freezing the
screen on closeups of William Holden's and Ernest Borgnine's faces while
listing them, Peckinpah froze the scene on several horses' rear ends as Ryan
was listed.
"Mapache" means
"raccoon", in Spanish.
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