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Wild Rovers
UNITED STATES · 1971

Wild Rovers

Blake Edwards
bank robbery aging and mortality friendship and loyalty ambition and desperation outlaw life
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Synopsis

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. Bodin

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