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The climactic shootout of ‘The Wild Bunch’ lasted five hellish minutes, and after it was over, violence in the movies was never the same.
W.K. Stratton is the author of five books of nonfiction, including, most recently, The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film, as well as three of poetry. He has written for Sports Illustrated, Outside, GQ, and Texas Monthly, and was named a Fellow of the Texas Institute of Letters in 2017. He is a longtime resident of Austin, Texas.