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Wild Rovers

Wild Rovers

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 23, 1971

Runtime

2h 16m

Genres

Action, Western

User Score

63%

Original Title

Wild Rovers

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Director

Blake Edwards

Description

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.