Wild Rovers

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Wild Rovers

PG,

1971,

2h 16m,

Western

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60%

15 Reviews

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43%

100+ Ratings

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60%

Tomatometer

15 Reviews

43%

Popcornmeter

100+ Ratings

Tired of his job at a ranch owned by Walter Buckman (Karl Malden), Frank Post (Ryan O'Neal) wants to pull a heist, and when his much older coworker, Ross Bodine (William Holden), sees nothing better on the horizon, the cowboys agree to team up for the crime. After filling their pockets with loot from a local bank, Frank and Ross ride toward what they hope is freedom. But the younger Buckmans, Paul (Joe Don Baker) and John (Tom Skerritt), pursue them over the rough land of the Southwest.

Richard Brody

The New Yorker

Oct 14, 2019

Bodine and Post exult in the transcendent wonder of the vast landscape and revel in the illusory joys of their outlaw freedom; their solitude and boredom on long rides through uninhabited country drive them to delusion and destruction.

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Variety Staff

Variety

Mar 26, 2009

The mood is broken regularly with pratfall humor, also some dehumanizing slow-motion ballets of death.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jun 26, 2008

3/4

A beautiful, dumb cowboy movie about two beautiful, dumb cowboys.

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Siong-huat Chua

Gay Community News (Boston)

Aug 31, 2022

An enjoyable movie—a Hollywood Western with all the essential elements plus trimmings.

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Dilys Powell

Sunday Times (UK)

Mar 17, 2020

Perhaps it is this happy-go-lucky feeling which distinguishes the story from the majority of Westerns -- and which makes violence here less disturbing than in many a less lethal film.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Mar 9, 2019

3/4

Holden's lived-in performance is a thing of beauty.

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Hermione L

Jul 27, 2016

Potential squandered. Tacky.

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Blake Edwards

Director

William Holden

Ross Bodine

Ryan O'Neal

Frank Post

Karl Malden

Walter Buckman

Lynn Carlin

Sada Billings

Tom Skerritt

John Buckman

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Synopsis

Tired of his job at a ranch owned by Walter Buckman (Karl Malden), Frank Post (Ryan O'Neal) wants to pull a heist, and when his much older coworker, Ross Bodine (William Holden), sees nothing better on the horizon, the cowboys agree to team up for the crime. After filling their pockets with loot from a local bank, Frank and Ross ride toward what they hope is freedom. But the younger Buckmans, Paul (Joe Don Baker) and John (Tom Skerritt), pursue them over the rough land of the Southwest.

Director: Blake Edwards
Producer: Blake Edwards, Ken Wales
Screenwriter: Blake Edwards
Production Co: Geoffrey Productions
Rating: PG
Genre: Western
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 9, 2017
Runtime: 2h 16m
Sound Mix: Stereo

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