John Wayne Hated This Controversial Western With 91% On Rotten Tomatoes (For A Good Reason)

Movie violence has been a controversial topic since the very dawn of cinema. Some audience members panicked during the iconic sequence in "The Great Train Robbery" when an outlaw fires his pistol directly at the camera, thinking they were really under fire. Three decades later, Howard Hughes was forced to make numerous cuts to the violent scenes in "Scarface," earning it the reputation as "one of the most highly censored films in Hollywood history." Both movies look rather tame today, however, and we can trace the roots of more visceral and realistic screen violence to the late 1960s with Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" and Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch." Despite all the hand-wringing that the films caused at the time with their gory shootouts, both are regarded as groundbreaking classi