Wild Rovers (1971)
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38% of users liked it
(97 ratings)
If you want to know what The Wild Bunch would have looked like with Blake Edwards rather than Sam Peckinpah in the director's chair, we submit for your approval Wild Rovers. William Holden and Ryan O'Neal play a couple of shiftless ranch hands who impulsively decide to rob a bank. They… More If you want to know what The Wild Bunch would have looked like with Blake Edwards rather than Sam Peckinpah in the director's chair, we submit for your approval Wild Rovers. William Holden and Ryan O'Neal play a couple of shiftless ranch hands who impulsively decide to rob a bank. They manage to make off with the money, but also incur the wrath of their former boss Karl Malden, who sends his two sons Tom Skerritt and Joe Don Baker out to bring back Holden and O'Neal, preferably dead. The film's climax is surprisingly melancholy for an Edwards film, but one can't deny that the ending grows logically from the events leading up to it. Severely edited by its distributor Warner Bros, Wild Rovers doesn't make a lot of sense in its release version; the director's cut, incorporated 30 minutes' worth of extra footage, is fortunately available on video. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Blake Edwards
- Genres
- Western, Classics
PG,
- In Theaters
- Jun 1, 1971 Wide
- Studio
- MGM Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Ryan Cracknell, Movie Views
Edwards proves that he was a more diverse filmmaker than perhaps he was given credit for.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Never kicks in as anything more than a fashionable mood piece.
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Cast
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William Holden
as Ross Bodine
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Ryan O'Neal
as Frank Post
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Karl Malden
as Walter Buckman
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Lynn Carlin
as Sada Billings
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Tom Skerritt
as John Buckman
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Joe Don Baker
as Paul Buckman
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Ed Bakey
as Gambler
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William Bryant
as Hereford
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Alan Carney
as Palace Bartender
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Dick Crockett
as Sheriff's Deputy
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Leora Dana
as Nell Buckman
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Lee de Broux
as Leaky
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Victor French
as Sheriff
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Ted Gehring
as Benson Sheriff
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Charles H. Gray
as Savage
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Moses Gunn
as Ben
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Mary Jackson
as Sada's Mother
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Boyd 'Red' Morgan
as Sheepman
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James Olson
as Joe Billings
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Rachel Roberts
as Maybell
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Caitlin Wyles
as Bodine's Girl
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Bennie E. Dobbins
as Sheepman
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Geoffrey Edwards
as Attendent's Son
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Sam Gilman
as Hansen
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Bruno Ve Sota
as Cantina Bartender
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Jack Garner
as Cap Swilling
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Hal Lynch
as Mack
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William Lucking
as Ruff
