Mapachi's Wild Bunch Cache II Traditional Cache
Mapachi's Wild Bunch Cache II
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This used to be a Puzzle Cache, that involved finding members (caches) of the Wild Bunch to find the final coords to this cache. No longer. This is an ammo can in the woods!!
The Wild Bunch is my favorite movie. It was directed by Sam Peckinpaugh
and it stars William Holden as Pike,
Ernest Borgnine as Dutch, Robert Ryan as Deke, Ben Johnson as Lyle,
Warren Oates as Tector, Edmund O’Brian as Sykes, Jammie Sanchez
as Angel and Emillio Fernandez as Mapachi.
I saw it for the first time on it’s original release in 1969,
while I was in the Army in Germany. I loved the movie then, for
it’s shear shock value. Now that I have watched this movie at least
thirty times, (No kidding, Thirty times!) I have come to appreciate
this movie on several much deeper levels.
wildbunchpike has been my e-mail address for the past ten years.
(Pike is the main character) Mapachi (the bad guy) is my Geocaching
“name”. Now that I am forty years older I find myself strangely
relating to the film.
Unchanged men in a changing land...Out of step, out of place, and
desperately out of time.
Outlaws on the Mexican-U.S. frontier face the march of progress,
the Mexican army and a gang of bounty hunters led by a former
member while they plan a robbery of a U.S. army train. No one is
innocent in this gritty tale of of desperation against changing
times. Pump shotguns, machine guns and automobiles mix with horses
and winchesters in this ultraviolent western.
A few months before World War I, an aging band of outlaws led by
Pike Bishop rob a Texas bank intent on using the money to retire.
When the robbery goes wrong, the gang is forced to flee to Mexico
with Bishop's reformed ex-partner, Deke Thornton, in hot pursuit.
With nothing to show for the failed robbery, Bishop's gang agrees
to steal a shipment of guns for General "Mapachi" Juerta, to
restore their fortunes. With Thornton closing in, and their
association with the evil Juerta trying their conscience, Bishop
and co. prepare for their lawless past to catch up with them.
Supposedly, more blank rounds were discharged during the production
than live rounds were fired during the Mexican Revolution of 1914
around which the film is loosely based. In total 90,000 rounds were
fired, all blanks.
In 1999, the film was selected for preservation in the United
States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being
"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film
was ranked No. 80 in the American Film Institute's top 100 list of
the greatest American films ever made. The Wild Bunch was
recognized as the sixth best film in the western genre.
Congratulations to dblbogey11 for a FTF !
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