The “vulgar” 1969 movie John Wayne and Clint Eastwood both couldn’t stand: “I never liked it”
John Wayne and Clint Eastwood both disliked Sam Peckinpah’s 1969 western The Wild Bunch, despite their very different approaches to the genre. Their shared view was that its graphic violence marked a distasteful shift in filmmaking.
Wayne said the film would have worked without its gore and called its direction “vulgar”. Eastwood found its stylised violence effective in context, but said he never liked the film; the article also notes that the two actors never pursued a proposed western together.
- Wayne and Eastwood both disliked The Wild Bunch.
- Wayne objected to its gore and called it vulgar.
- Eastwood found its violence effective but not to his taste.