Movie
Wild Rovers
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1971-06-23
- Runtime
- 136 min
- Genres
- Action, Western
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- William Holden as Ross Bodine
- Ryan O'Neal as Frank Post
- Karl Malden as Walter Buckman
- Lynn Carlin as Sada Billings
- Tom Skerritt as John Buckman
- Joe Don Baker as Paul Buckman
- Geoffrey Edwards as Attendant's Son
- James Olson as Joe Billings
- Leora Dana as Nell Buckman
- Moses Gunn as Ben
- Victor French as Sheriff
- Rachel Roberts as Maybell
Crew
- Blake Edwards - Director
- Blake Edwards - Screenplay
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