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The Wild Bunch

1969 · directed by Sam Peckinpah · 145 min
25,392 feet · Prominence
375th of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw34

$1m worldwide in 1969 — $6m in today's money.

As released$1mIn 2026 money$6mRank6,403 of 8,589In 196919 of 21

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise95

Critics 95, awards 16. Half each, so Praise lands at 95.

Critics95 → 47Awards16 → 8

Oscars2 nominated Original Screenplay, no Musical
How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so the awards half halves it — which penalises it for the Academy's rules rather than its quality.

Legacy78

Judged directly: Changed screen violence; canonical revisionist western.

Verdict78 of 100IMDb7.9 from 92kWikipedia16k views a monthAge57 years

On the listsNational Film RegistryAFI 100Sight & Soundevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 171 of 3,430 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 34 praise 95 legacy 78averages 69, which places it at25,392 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

No scored career runs through this film yet. The people-side engine currently covers 108careers, and this film’s cast sits outside them. Top billing: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Jaime Sánchez.