Lost "Gutting scene" mystery solved.

A lot of books and articles on The Wild Bunch vaguely refer to a graphic "gutting scene" that was cut before release. Nobody knows who was gutted or when the scene occurred.

I found this in an online article at: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-wild-bunch-made-killing-gut-wrenchingly-real

"Lilia Castillo’s character dies a particularly gruesome death—and a particularly slow one, with Pike Bishop watching her agonized demise. Special effects and makeup crew members made her up to have a particularly realistic and ugly “hole” in her from a gunshot. Once it was finished, Castillo looked down at the ersatz injury and suddenly felt nauseated—that was how genuine it looked. Peckinpah was deeply involved in the setup for that sequence, even applying stage blood himself from a squirt bottle. (The shots of Castillo’s “death” eventually had to be jettisoned by Sam and his editors as they tightened the film for release.)"

Lilia Castillo played the prettiest of the women in Mapache's harem. The one who sticks her tongue out at Warren Oates when he smiles at her.
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