Wild Rovers

1971 · directed by Blake Edwards

Rating

62/100

Hit

no

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.

Wild Rovers (1971), directed by Blake Edwards, rates 62/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• William Holden
• Ryan O'Neal
• Karl Malden
• Lynn Carlin
• Tom Skerritt
• Joe Don Baker
• Geoffrey Edwards
• James Olson
• Leora Dana
• Moses Gunn

Crew

• Philip H. Lathrop — Director of Photography
• Jerry Goldsmith — Original Music Composer
• Blake Edwards — Screenplay

More from Blake Edwards

1. Victor/Victoria (1982) — 81/100 · hit
2. Days of Wine and Roses (1963) — 81/100 · hit
3. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) — 78/100
4. Experiment in Terror (1962) — 77/100
5. A Shot in the Dark (1964) — 76/100
6. Operation Petticoat (1959) — 76/100

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