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.
Charles H. Gray
- Savage
- (as Charles Gray)
William Bryant
- Hereford
- (as Bill Bryant)
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- TriviaThe scene in which Ross and Frank tamed a mustang was mostly done by the actors rather than stunt men. 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, a dark patch can be seen where William Holden later admitted to having pissed himself 'just a little'.
- GoofsWhen 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 versionsSPOILER: 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.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Moviemakers (1971)
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Unsung Gem
I saw WILD ROVERS when it first came out - in the early 70s. It had been butchered by the powers that be at MGM. Still there was a lot to recommend the western: William Holden at his post-WILD BUNCH grizzled best, Jerry Goldsmith's classic, Copelandesque score that somehow manages to be lyrical, evocative but not a bit cloying (learn something, James Horner and Hans Zimmer), and the stunning cinematography. I saw it again in the late 80s restored to its original length (on a double bill with the restored PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID, also butchered by MGM in the early 70s). I found more to like about the movie: the unexpected spurts of humor, the observations of the connectedness between cowboy and animal life, and Blake Edward's staging of the scenes of violence - he never does the same thing twice, and the barroom shootout is an object lesson in blocking and editing. (If there is any complaint one can level against Clint Eastwood's UNFORGIVEN was how uninterestingly the action scenes were staged.) Anyway, I just caught WILD ROVERS again on HD.Net Movies during 4th of July weekend, and its virtues have actually grown with age. And it looks gorgeous on a 16:9 Hi-Def screen. Give it a few more years and it might attain classic status.
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- Gross US & Canada
- $277,092
- Runtime2 hours 16 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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