Wild Rovers (1971)

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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… 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

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Rating, Runtime: PG, 2 hr. 17 min.
Directed By: Blake Edwards
Genres: Western, Classics

In Theaters: Jun 1, 1971 Wide
Studio: MGM Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

Ryan Cracknell, Movie Views
Edwards proves that he was a more diverse filmmaker than perhaps he was given credit for.
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Never kicks in as anything more than a fashionable mood piece.

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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

            Ed Bakey as Gambler

            William Bryant as Hereford

            Alan Carney as Palace Bartender

            Dick Crockett as Sheriff's Deputy

            Leora Dana as Nell Buckman

            Lee de Broux as Leaky

            Victor French as Sheriff

            Ted Gehring as Benson Sheriff

            Charles H. Gray as Savage

            Moses Gunn as Ben

            Mary Jackson as Sada's Mother

            Boyd 'Red' Morgan as Sheepman

            James Olson as Joe Billings

            Rachel Roberts as Maybell

            Caitlin Wyles as Bodine's Girl

            Bennie E. Dobbins as Sheepman

            Geoffrey Edwards as Attendent's Son

            Sam Gilman as Hansen

            Bruno Ve Sota as Cantina Bartender

            Jack Garner as Cap Swilling

            Hal Lynch as Mack

            William Lucking as Ruff
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