Wild Rovers

Jun 23, 1971

2h 16m

★ 6.1

They were damned good cowboys, until they robbed a bank.

Overview

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.

Genres

Action

Western

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Wild Rovers Trailers

Cast

Ross Bodine

William Holden

Frank Post

Ryan O'Neal

Walter Buckman

Karl Malden

Sada Billings

Lynn Carlin

John Buckman

Tom Skerritt

Paul Buckman

Joe Don Baker

Attendant's Son

Geoffrey Edwards

Joe Billings

James Olson

Nell Buckman

Leora Dana

Ben

Moses Gunn

Sheriff

Victor French

Maybell

Rachel Roberts

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