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Movie Info

Tired of his job at a ranch owned by Walter Buckman (Karl Malden), Frank Post (Ryan O'Neal) wants to pull a heist, and when his much older coworker, Ross Bodine (William Holden), sees nothing better on the horizon, the cowboys agree to team up for the crime. After filling their pockets with loot from a local bank, Frank and Ross ride toward what they hope is freedom. But the younger Buckmans, Paul (Joe Don Baker) and John (Tom Skerritt), pursue them over the rough land of the Southwest.

Rating:

PG
Genre:

western
Original Language:

English
Director:

Blake Edwards
Producer:

Blake Edwards, Ken Wales
Writer:

Blake Edwards
Release Date (Streaming):

Jan 9, 2017
Runtime:

2h 16m
Production Co:

Geoffrey Productions
Sound Mix:

Stereo

Cast & Crew

William Holden
Ross Bodine

Ryan O'Neal
Frank Post

Karl Malden
Walter Buckman

Lynn Carlin
Sada Billings

Tom Skerritt
John Buckman

Joe Don Baker
Paul Buckman

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Critic Reviews for Wild Rovers

All Critics (14) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (6)

Bodine and Post exult in the transcendent wonder of the vast landscape and revel in the illusory joys of their outlaw freedom; their solitude and boredom on long rides through uninhabited country drive them to delusion and destruction.

October 14, 2019 | Full Review…

Richard Brody
New Yorker
The mood is broken regularly with pratfall humor, also some dehumanizing slow-motion ballets of death.

March 26, 2009 | Full Review…

Variety Staff
Variety
A beautiful, dumb cowboy movie about two beautiful, dumb cowboys.

June 26, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
Marvellous performances and elegiac photography (by Philip Lathrop) are well complemented by Edwards' unusually light touch.

January 26, 2006 | Full Review…

Geoff Andrew
Time Out
A film that is more compelling as the work of a specific director (whose thoughts have here turned west) than as an isolated entertainment, as an end in itself.

May 9, 2005

Vincent Canby
New York Times
It shows much of Edwards's craft, but the soul is strangely missing.

January 1, 2000 | Full Review…

Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
Perhaps it is this happy-go-lucky feeling which distinguishes the story from the majority of Westerns -- and which makes violence here less disturbing than in many a less lethal film.

March 17, 2020 | Full Review…

Dilys Powell
Sunday Times (UK)
Holden's lived-in performance is a thing of beauty.

March 9, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Matt Brunson
Film Frenzy
There is natural simplicity and then there is a contrived simplicity that kind of yells out at you and says "Hey, look how simple and low-key this is."

October 3, 2018 | Full Review…

Tony Mastroianni
Cleveland Press
Whether it was the writing or the directing, it just seemed to be a little aimless to me.

October 14, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Kevin Carr
7M Pictures
Edwards proves that he was a more diverse filmmaker than perhaps he was given credit for.

August 24, 2011 | Full Review…

Ryan Cracknell
Movie Views
Never kicks in as anything more than a fashionable mood piece.

August 30, 2005 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

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Audience Reviews for Wild Rovers

Mar 12, 2010

Wild Rovers seemed to start off slow & just stayed there.The 1st western ever where I couldnt sit through the whole thing

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