They were damned good cowboys, until they robbed a bank.
Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows. When one of their fellow cowboys is killed in a corral accident, Post suggests a way into a better life for himself and his friend: robbing a bank. Bodine reluctantly joins in the plan and the two contrive to rob the local bank. They make good their escape initially, but Walt Buckman and his two sons, John and Paul, are incensed at this betrayal by their own trusted employees. John and Paul set out to bring Bodine and Post to justice.
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Nostalgic, classical in form, grave and contemplative.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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- John Chardon TMDB · Jan 20169/10
A reflective gem of an Oater. Wild Rovers is written and directed by Blake Edwards. It stars William Holden, Ryan O'Neal, Karl Malden, Joe Don Baker, Tom Skeritt and James Olsen. Music is scored by Jerry Goldsmith and the Panavision/Metrocolor cinematography is by Philip Lathrop. It's a Western that not only was butchered by cretinous execs at MGM, but has also proved to be divisive among the Western faithful - those that have seen the now thankfully available un-butchered version that is. Wild Rovers is one of those Oaters that is very much concerned with the changing of the West, where cowboys start to find themselves out of place with their era. Think Monte Walsh/Will Penny/Ride The High Country, with a bit of Wild Bunch/Butch & Sundance thrown in for good measure, and you get where Wild Rovers is at. Some critics were quick to accuse Edwards of merely copying Western films of past, but that is unfair. For this is a loving homage to those movies, also managing to be its own beast in the process. The tale is simply of two cowpokes, one aged and world weary, the other a young excitable buck, best friends who want more from life, so decide to rob the local bank and flee to Mexico t
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Cast
- William HoldenRoss Bodine
- Ryan O'NealFrank Post
- Karl MaldenWalter Buckman
- Lynn CarlinSada Billings
- Tom SkerrittJohn Buckman
- Joe Don BakerPaul Buckman
- Geoffrey EdwardsAttendant's Son
- James OlsonJoe Billings
- Leora DanaNell Buckman
- Moses GunnBen
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- Blake EdwardsDirector
- Blake EdwardsScreenplay
- Philip H. LathropDirector of Photography
- Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
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