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"The Reivers" Movie Review

78. The Reivers

Here is another case of a
missed Steve McQueen film.
He is not the dashing hero,
or the wronged protagonist.
He is not even the single focus of the film.
Young Mitch Vogel plays Lucius,
the boy who looks up to the McQueen character
like many of us looked up to that rogue uncle.

You know, the one that did
all the thingsthat your folks told you
good people don't do?
McQueen is that guy, and his name is Boon.
While the patriarch of the family is out of town,
Boon and friends talk the boy
into taking the prized
new Automobile out for a ride.

The Faulkner novel is done proud
in this adaptation
(With Burgess Meredith doing narration.)
There are harrowing escapes, foolish mistakes,
beautiful women with not a lot of clothes on,
and all kinds of things that make up one of those
''coming of age in the south'' stories.

Check out this cast:
Steve McQueen . . . .  Boon Hogganbeck
Sharon Farrell . . . .  Corrie
Ruth White . . . .  Miss Reba
Michael Constantine . . . .  Mr. Binford
Clifton James . . . .  Butch Lovemaiden
Juano Hernandez . . . . Uncle Possum
Lonny Chapman . . . .  Maury
Will Geer . . . .  Boss
Rupert Crosse . . . .  Ned
Mitch Vogel . . . .  Lucius
Diane Shalet . . . .  Hannah
Pat Randall . . . .  May Ellen
Diane Ladd . . . .  Phoebe
Ellen Geer . . . .  Sally
Dub Taylor . . . .  Dr. Peabody

There is even a climactic horse race
with everything in the balance at the end.
There is not a weak performance
or a missed opportunity
in the entire picture.
It will not make anyone's
"My God, that movie changed my life" list.
See it anyway.

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--posted by Wayne Sunday, February 26, 2006

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