Made in 1971. A somewhat aged William Holden and a relatively young Ryan O'Neal are cowboys. After one of their fellow cowboys is killed in a freak accident, they discuss how bad it is being cowboys and mortality in general and William Holden makes an idle comment about bank robbery as a way out.
They work for rancher Karl Malden whose sons (Joe Don Baker and Tom Skerritt) pursue them into Mexico where they go to start a new life with their stolen money.
Bank robberies are pretty standard for westerns. The one in this movie was a little unusual, involved hostages. The barroom brawl was on a small scale with only five or six guys fighting for no reason. They talk a lot and are slow to get to the point. Every conversation drags on longer than necessary. They go on and on about Ryan O'Neal bringing a puppy with him.
Later, they need another horse, so they lasso an innocent wild horse and quickly break him in. Maybe you can really do that, but I wouldn't take the movie's word for it.
With Little House in the Prairie's Victor French, Joe Don Baker, Tom Skerritt, Moses Gunn, Ted Gehring, Bruno VeSota. With Blake Edwards' son, Geoffery (Julie Andrews' stepson).
I never noticed Ryan O'Neal was left-handed.
Reportedly, Edwards intended this as a three-hour epic. The studio cut it down by 40 minutes and altered the ending causing him to disown it.
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