Main Cast: William Holden, Ryan O'Neal, Karl Malden, Lynn Carlin, Tom Skerritt
Release Year: 1971
Country: US
Run Time: 110 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
Plot
If you want to know what The Wild Bunch would have looked like with Blake Edwards rather than Sam Peckinpah in the director's chair, we submit for your approval Wild Rovers. William Holden and Ryan O'Neal play a couple of shiftless ranch hands who impulsively decide to rob a bank. They manage to make off with the money, but also incur the wrath of their former boss Karl Malden, who sends his two sons Tom Skerritt and Joe Don Baker out to bring back Holden and O'Neal, preferably dead. The film's climax is surprisingly melancholy for an Edwards film, but one can't deny that the ending grows logically from the events leading up to it. Severely edited by its distributor Warner Bros, Wild Rovers doesn't make a lot of sense in its release version; the director's cut, incorporated 30 minutes' worth of extra footage, is fortunately available on video. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
George W. Davis - Art Director, Addison Hehr - Art Director, Jack Bear - Costume Designer, Blake Edwards - Director, Dick Crockett - Second Unit Director, John F. Burnett - Editor, Jerry Goldsmith - Composer (Music Score), Ernie Sheldon - Songwriter, Tom Tuttle - Makeup, Frank Stanley - Camera Operator, Philip H. Lathrop - Cinematographer, Blake Edwards - Producer, Ken Wales - Producer, Robert R. Benton - Set Designer, Reg Allen - Set Designer, Bruce Wright - Sound/Sound Designer, Harry W. Tetrick - Sound/Sound Designer, Blake Edwards - Screenwriter
