THE REIVERS (1969) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1969
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: It’s a grand and spectacular “horseless carriage” - a shiny yellow 1905 Winton Flyer automobile. Its owner is Mississippi plantation owner “Boss” (Will Geer, Jeremiah Johnson), who has left it sitting unattended. But hired hand Boon (Steve McQueen, Junior Bonner) decides it would be the ideal vehicle to take him and his buddy on a glorious whirlwind jaunt to distant Memphis. And along for the ride is Boss’s earnest 12-year-old grandson, who finds himself reluctantly drafted to be the third “reiver” (an old Scottish word for ‘thief’) aboard his grandfather’s car. So starts a bumpy journey that sweeps the trio into encounters with both Boss’’s raucous gal pal at a brothel and a corrupt racist sheriff, as well as a spellbinding, winner-takes-all horse race - with ownership of the Winton Flyer at stake! Based on William Faulkner’s esteemed novel, The Reivers is an irresistible slice-of-life adventure directed by Mark Rydell (The Cowboys).
• Cast: Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Ruth White, Michael Constantine, Clifton James, Juano Hernandez, Lonny Chapman, Will Geer, Rupert Crosse, Mitch Vogel, Diane Shalet, Pat Randall, Diane Ladd, Ellen Geer, Dub Taylor, Allyn Ann McLerie, Charles Tyner, Lindy Davis, Shug Fisher, Raymond Guth, Logan Ramsey, Jon Shank, Gloria Calomee, Sara Taft, Vinnette Carroll, Lou Frizzell, John McLiam, Roy Barcroft, R.N. Bullard, Ogden Talbot, Michael Hinn, Bert Conway, Billy Green Bush, John J. Fox, Owen Bush, James Rawley, Al Hopson, Wes Fuller, Ella Mae Brown, Florence St. Peter, Jim Goodwin, Burgess Meredith, Frank Baker, Beverlee McKinsey, Robert Robinson, Max Wagner, Mark Rydell, William Faulkner, Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch
• Director: Mark Rydell
• Runtime: 1:46
• Company: CBS Blu-ray™, Kino Lorber Studio Classics
• Media Format: Movie