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Wild Rovers (1971)
Director: Blake Edwards
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Arguably one of Blake Edwards' best films, this is a faintly derivative but highly enjoyable Western in the nostalgic, anti-heroic mould. Holden and O'Neal are the innocents tired of their unremarkable lives who team up for a bank robbery, and head off on a picaresque odyssey to Mexico with dreams of amounting to something as cattle barons. If most of the film is gently comic and lyrical, the harshness of the West is never played down, so that the duo's cruel destiny is foreshadowed throughout. Marvellous performances and elegiac photography (by Philip Lathrop) are well complemented by Edwards' unusually light touch.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Blake Edwards
Producer: Blake Edwards, Ken Wales
Cast: William Holden, Ryan O'Neal, Karl Malden, Lynn Carlin, Tom Skerritt, Joe Don Baker, James Olson, Leora Dana, Moses Gunn, Rachel Roberts, Charles Gray full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 132 mins
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