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- Junior's womanizing father, Ace, and down-to-earth, long-suffering mother, Elvira, are estranged. Ace dreams of emigrating to Australia to rear sheep and mine gold, but he fails to obtain financing from Curly nor Junior, who is broke.
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Junior Bonner: Directed by Sam Peckinpah. With Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson. Ace Bonner returns to Arizona several years after he abandoned his family, Junior Bonner is a wild young man. Against the typical rodeo championship, family drama erupts.
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- Drama, Western
- Sam Peckinpah
- 1972-07-21
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When he returns to Prescott, it's to a family broken by his cowboy father's rodeo roistering and his younger brother's commercialism: Curly Bonner turns the homestead ranch into a site for...
Jan 16, 2019 · It’s the story of bullrider Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen), who has come home for the rodeo, swings by the house of his father, Ace Bonner (Robert Preston), to find him gone. The property is being bulldozed for a housing development being built by his brother, Curly Bonner (Joe Don Baker).
“We could’ve won.” – Ace Bonner “We did, Ace.” – Junior Bonner. The experience of watching Junior Bonner (Sam Peckinpah, 1972) in tandem with Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997) works so brilliantly that it ultimately cannot be explained in words: this double-feature operates on your heart. Surprising as it might seem, these ...
Oct 1, 2018 · In one of its more forceful moments, the abandoned home of Ace Bonner (Junior’s ageing father and former rodeo champion, played by Robert Preston) is torn apart by graders amidst a vision of toxic, environmentally ruinous America enabled by Junior’s entrepreneurial brother, Curly (Joe Don Baker).
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Junior's womanizing father, Ace, and down-to-earth, long-suffering mother, Elvira, are estranged. Ace dreams of emigrating to Australia to rear sheep and mine gold, but he fails to obtain financing from Curly nor Junior, who is broke.
Aug 3, 1972 · Junior Bonner (Steve Mc Queen), pushing 40 and no longer an especially success ful circuit contestant, returns to his hometown of Prescot, Ariz., to compete in the annual rodeo.
