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Wild Rovers is a american film of genre Action directed by Blake Edwards released in USA on 23 june 1971 with William Holden
Wild Rovers (1971)
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Add to a movie listWild Rovers is a 1971 American Western film directed by Blake Edwards and starring William Holden and Ryan O'Neal.
Originally intended as a three-hour epic, it was heavily edited and changed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer without Edwards' knowledge, including a reversal of the ending from a negative one to a positive. Edwards disowned the finished film as released, and later satirised his battle with the studio in his comedy S.O.B., which also starred Holden.
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An aging cowboy, Ross Bodine, and a younger one, Frank Post, work on cattleman Walt Buckman's ranch in Montana. A neighboring sheepman, Hansen, is in a long-running feud with Buckman.Actors
William Holden
(Ross Bodine)
Ryan O'Neal
(Frank Post)
Karl Malden
(Walter Buckman)
Tom Skerritt
(John Buckman)
Leora Dana
(Nell Buckman)
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