Junior Bonner
Summary:
Sam Peckinpah eschews his slow-motion bullet ballets for this quiet character study of ex-rodeo cowboy turned drifter Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen), who returns home to Arizona to reconcile with the family he hasn't seen in years. Bonner is shocked to see that the solid family he was hoping to come back to is breaking apart. His parents, Ace (Robert Preston) and Elvira (Ida Lu... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Steve McQueen - (Junior Bonner)
Robert Preston - (Ace Bonner)
Ida Lupino - (Elvira Bonner)
Ben Johnson - (Buck Roan)
Joe Don Baker - (Curly Bonner)
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Review:
His first film after the controversially brutal Straw Dogs (1971), Sam Peckinpah's Junior Bonner (1972) is gun-, gore-, and death-free. Jeb Rosebrook's sweetly comic screenplay explores familiar Peckinpah themes of masculine individuality and the end of the West, but this time in a modern-day rodeo setting; the rituals are literally ... Continue >>
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