At The Movies with Bob Peek Is the most violent and gro tesquely realistic movie yet made also the year’s best picture ? Maybe not, but by any relevant standard The Wild Bunch is an exceptional motion picture. It has been years since there has been a truly original plot in a western movie, and accordingly, outstanding westerns have been results of fresh, skillful screen writing, flawless direction and superlative performances by the actors. Needless to say, few westerns have fulfilled all these qualifi cations. Those that have are classics. Such movies as “Shane,” “High Noon,” “The Magnificent Seven” and “The Professionals” are the dramatic equals of any of the best movies the industry has ever created. “The Wild Bunch” is the story of a group of old-time desper ados who are being pushed out of their profession by the ir- resistable expansion of American civilization in the early 1900’s. They are getting old, the “jobs” are few and the loot is skimpy. After failing in an attempt at robbing a railroad depot, the bunch heads for Mexico, looking for one last big job before calling it quits. The bunch gets its job and does it “just like in the old days,” but each knows the romance is gone, and that his time is over. Fitting ly, they die in an explosion of violence such has never been seen on the screen before. Direction and photography are impeccable. The style of photog raphy used in each scene con tributed almost as much to its impact and meaning as the dia logue, sometimes more. It’s a movie that must be seen to be believed. No discussion of “The Wild Bunch” can ignore the subject of violence. The special effects of violence in this movie are frighteningly real. Although this reality prompts many viewers and critics to violently condemn it as immoral and sick, it seems to me that it’s stomach-turning as pect is the movie’s greatest moral value. The sheer reality of this movie’s violence destroys the ro mance of violence. “The Wild Bunch,” “Bullit” and “Bonnie and Clyde” are all vio lent movies that I would take my children to see. After seeing it, they would never want to do anything violent to anyone. Could you say that about any John Wayne picture? By the way, do you really want me to review “Darby O’Gill and the Little People?” I didn’t think CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle birth pay* slouch 1953-1969 ■Z4-00 CAZTOOM A : ^ j L ■ ;! If;;; «9^SBtr 4 p.m. liable J; bed br Cj mmrnmmm $149.95 la s< shed 4 all . tioning 111* Mly fur In th in i linutes °r foui All ut A I Midw Only A Few Of The Many Specials At: ^STERLING ELECTRONICS 903 South Main “YOUR SOUND NEIGHBOR IN BRYAN’ 1 & 2 Pool 3 *12-5041 hm -E h stock fnere 1 ( Quant ^heel ] Systc Water Almost 25 ferake 2 W PEANUTS Scholl Hav Ei Othe: Start All Most Yoi Joe 125 E. 2, J01 21