IMDb RATING
6.5/10
2.1K
YOUR RATING
Tired of cow-punching for a living, two Montana cowboys rob a bank and flee but their employer's sons chase after them.Tired of cow-punching for a living, two Montana cowboys rob a bank and flee but their employer's sons chase after them.Tired of cow-punching for a living, two Montana cowboys rob a bank and flee but their employer's sons chase after them.
Charles H. Gray
- Savage
- (as Charles Gray)
William Bryant
- Hereford
- (as Bill Bryant)
- Director
- Writer
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaOne of the rare instances where Blake Edwards collaborated with another composer instead of his regular musical associate, Henry Mancini, who was working on another movie. In this case he used Jerry Goldsmith.
- GoofsWhen Post shoots Ben's tin cup, the "bullet hole" has metal shards curling out toward Post. But if Post had indeed fired a bullet at the tin cup, a bullet would have pushed the metal shards towards the inside of the cup. But with the metal shards curling outwards it clearly demonstrates that the so-called bullet hole was created by a small charge placed in the inside of the cup creating the outward curling shards.
- Quotes
Ross Bodine: You show me an old cowboy, a young cowboy or an in between cowboy with more than a few dollars in his poke and I'll show a cowboy that stopped being a cowboy and robbed banks.
Frank Post: Well, let's rob us a bank.
Ross Bodine: It'll be safer than getting married.
- Alternate versionsSPOILER: Originally released theatrically at 106 minutes; the extended "Director's Cut" runs 136 minutes. MGM cut 24 minutes of the film, including the scenes in which "Ross Bodine" gives some of the stolen money back to the "Billingses" and a slow-motion sequence in which "Walter Buckman" dies. The studio also added to the end of the film, after "Frank Post's" death, a recurrence of the sequence in which Post dances in the snow while Ross breaks the bronco.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Moviemakers (1971)
Featured review
2 out of 5 action rating
Skip it – There are a lot of positives that make this a unique western that's worth a watch. There's good dialogue, a rousing musical score, beautiful cinematography, and a great acting job by William Holden. Unfortunately, this is more of a buddy movie than a good old-fashioned western. I've even heard some comparisons drawn to "Brokeback Mountain," although I personally would disagree. The story is about two ranch hands who decide on a whim to rob a bank, and the chain of events that unfold as a result. It is part "Sundowners" and part "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." The two men are an unlikely pair, but they become close friends as a result of their desperate situation. The first half of the movie feels like a comedy. The second half gets a lot better, with a couple gunfights and some Peckinpah-esque slow motion violence. Unfortunately, this western is too long and just too sluggish to keep an action buff entertained. But I believe that it is good enough to be considered a classic. 2 action rating
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- Dos hombres contra el Oeste
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- Gross US & Canada
- $277,092
- Runtime2 hours 16 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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