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Wild Rovers

  • 19711971
  • GPGP
  • 2h 16m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
1.8K
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William Holden and Ryan O'Neal in Wild Rovers (1971)
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Tired of cow-punching for a living, two Montana cowboys rob a bank and flee but their employer's sons chase after them.Tired of cow-punching for a living, two Montana cowboys rob a bank and flee but their employer's sons chase after them.Tired of cow-punching for a living, two Montana cowboys rob a bank and flee but their employer's sons chase after them.
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
1.8K
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    • Blake Edwards
    • Blake Edwards
  • Stars
    • William Holden
    • Ryan O'Neal
    • Karl Malden
    • Blake Edwards
    • Blake Edwards
  • Stars
    • William Holden
    • Ryan O'Neal
    • Karl Malden
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 31User reviews
    • 25Critic reviews
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    William Holden and Ryan O'Neal in Wild Rovers (1971)
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    Joe Don Baker and Ted Gehring in Wild Rovers (1971)
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    Leora Dana in Wild Rovers (1971)

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    William Holden
    William Holden
    • Ross Bodine
    Ryan O'Neal
    Ryan O'Neal
    • Frank Post
    Karl Malden
    Karl Malden
    • Walter Buckman
    Lynn Carlin
    Lynn Carlin
    • Sada Billings
    Tom Skerritt
    Tom Skerritt
    • John Buckman
    Joe Don Baker
    Joe Don Baker
    • Paul Buckman
    James Olson
    James Olson
    • Joe Billings
    Leora Dana
    Leora Dana
    • Nell Buckman
    Moses Gunn
    Moses Gunn
    • Ben
    Victor French
    Victor French
    • Sheriff
    Rachel Roberts
    Rachel Roberts
    • Maybell
    Sam Gilman
    Sam Gilman
    • Hansen
    Charles H. Gray
    Charles H. Gray
    • Savage
    • (as Charles Gray)
    William Bryant
    William Bryant
    • Hereford
    • (as Bill Bryant)
    Jack Garner
    • Cap Swilling
    Caitlin Wyles
    • Bodine's Girl
    Mary Jackson
    Mary Jackson
    • Sada's Mother
    William Lucking
    William Lucking
    • Ruff
      • Blake Edwards
      • Blake Edwards
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The scene in which Ross and Frank break in a mustang was actually mostly real. Blake Edwards wanted the action to be as believable as possible so he had them train as horse wranglers in Iceland for five weeks before filming. At one point you can see a dark patch where William Holden later admitted to having wet himself 'just a little bit'.
    • Goofs
      When Post shoots Ben's tin cup, the "bullet hole" has metal shards curling out toward Post. But if Post had indeed fired a bullet at the tin cup, a bullet would have pushed the metal shards towards the inside of the cup. But with the metal shards curling outwards it clearly demonstrates that the so-called bullet hole was created by a small charge placed in the inside of the cup creating the outward curling shards.
    • Quotes

      Ross Bodine: You show me an old cowboy, a young cowboy or an in between cowboy with more than a few dollars in his poke and I'll show a cowboy that stopped being a cowboy and robbed banks.

      Frank Post: Well, let's rob us a bank.

      Ross Bodine: It'll be safer than getting married.

    • Alternate versions
      SPOILER: Originally released theatrically at 106 minutes; the extended "Director's Cut" runs 136 minutes. MGM cut 24 minutes of the film, including the scenes in which "Ross Bodine" gives some of the stolen money back to the "Billingses" and a slow-motion sequence in which "Walter Buckman" dies. The studio also added to the end of the film, after "Frank Post's" death, a recurrence of the sequence in which Post dances in the snow while Ross breaks the bronco.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Moviemakers (1971)
    • Soundtracks
      Ballad of the Wild Rovers
      (uncredited)

      Written by Jerry Goldsmith

      Sung by William Holden

    User reviews31

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    a little-seen gem
    This is not a film about which you hear a great deal, which is a shame because it is one of the most enjoyable westerns I have seen for a long time. I think the problem lies in the fact that it tries to be too many different things and cover too many bases. It is funny, but not as funny as BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID; it is elegaic, but not as elegaic as PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID; it is violent, but not as violent as THE WILD BUNCH; and it is beautiful, but not as beautiful as JEREMIAH JOHNSON.

    It may sound odd but the film it most resembles, in as much as it combines all these elements, is THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT. We have a mismatched pairing of a wise man and a headstrong youth who combine to pull off a major robbery. They are pursued relentlessly by an almost psychotic adversary. They meet a tragic end. This may sound like high praise and indeed it should because this is a fine movie and I never thought I'd say that about a Blake Edwards movie.

    There are moments within this film which you rarely get in a run of the mill western. For instance I never see a western which deals so well with the equivocal relationship between a cowboy and animals. This film is full of them: sheep, cows, horses, mules, cougars, cats and dogs. And not just in passing either. All the best westerns have a snowbound sequence but not many of them combine it with a horse-breaking scene, as this movie does to breathtaking effect.
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    • Jan 4, 2003

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    • Release date
      • June 19, 1971 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Arches National Park, Utah, USA
    • Production company
      • Geoffrey Productions
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    • 2 hours 16 minutes
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