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`wild' Times Are Remembered By Those Who Were There In The February Issue Of Boxoffice Magazine, Reaction To The Late Sam Peckinpah's 1969 Controversial Western ``the Wild Bunch'' Is Remembered: ``the Audience Reaction Was Extreme,'' Recalled Roger Ebert Of A Screening For Critics. ``some People Walked Out. Others Closed Their Eyes. When The Lights Went Up, The Applause Was Matched By Boos And Hisses. And Then The Arguments Started.''

By Times Leader Archivist
January 20, 1995
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