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61% Critic Match
Wild Rovers
“They were damned good cowboys, until they robbed a bank.”
6.1 / 10• 1971• 2h 16m•PG• English
ActionWestern
Storyline
Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows. When one of their fellow cowboys is killed in a corral accident, Post suggests a way into a better life for himself and his friend: robbing a bank. Bodine reluctantly joins in the plan and the two contrive to rob the local bank. They make good their escape initially, but Walt Buckman and his two sons, John and Paul, are incensed at this betrayal by their own trusted employees. John and Paul set out to bring Bodine and Post to justice.
Cast & Crew
William Holden
Ross Bodine
Lead
Ryan O'Neal
Frank Post
Karl Malden
Walter Buckman
Lynn Carlin
Sada Billings
Tom Skerritt
John Buckman
Joe Don Baker
Paul Buckman
GE
Geoffrey Edwards
Attendant's Son
James Olson
Joe Billings
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Blake Edwards's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Wild Rovers is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
