Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch is a great movie you rarely see on television. There’s something else about this film *. It’s a depiction of getting old, reaching that age that you feel you're entitled to sit back and relax. That makes it a film about actors and acting from Hollywood's Golden Age that abruptly crosses over into the era of hippies, method acting, sex and violence. Which is quite remarkable actually, as William Holden (born in 1918) was barely 50 when they were shooting this movie! Look at Tom Cruise, still jumping from rooftops at 62! Below: ‘old men’ engaging in conversation before “I’m too old for this kinda shit” became a cliché in screenwriting.

*Within a 2 -year timespan, this Peckinpah western together with Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid and Once Upon a Time in the West actually brought the western as a high-grossing movie genre to a close for years to come. At least until The Outlaw Josey Wales. What more was there to say? Okay, the Civil War.