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A week with Junior Bonner, a rodeo pro on the wrong side of 40, broke, bruised, and headed into Prescott, his home town, for the annual 4th of July Frontier Days. His dad, Ace, is a dissolute dreamer fixed on finding gold in Australia; his mom is resigned to Ace's roving; his brother Curly is tearing up the countryside to make a million in real estate. Junior just wants to stay on a bucking Brahma for eight seconds, hang out with Ace, find a way to spend time with a beautiful woman whose eyes catch his, and earn enough to get to next week's rodeo. As the old West and its code give way to progress, Junior is lonesome, laconic, and on the road - just where he wants to be. Written by
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Steve McQueen going down his own road, tougher than ever, as "Junior Bonner"
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When Ace and junior are sharing a bottle of whiskey the bottle jumps from Aces' right hand to his left between shots.
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Quotes
Ace Bonner:
By hook or by crook, I'm goin' to Australia.
Elvira Bonner:
Well, you always were good at puttin' distance between us.
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The Wild Bunch (1969)
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Soundtracks
"Arizona Morning"
Words and Music by
Rod Hart
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I grew up with these people, and watched, with them, the end of the mythic West and the beginning of traffic-clogged urban West. When Junior watches the bulldozers flattening the old ranch, I can empathise completely.
This is a melancholy film, superbly acted (everyone was completely authentic in the movie), and a tragic document of the West as it once was, when there were stll heroic bull riders and classic vistas unpolluted by smog.