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1972 Certificate PG
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In Sam Peckinpah's JUNIOR BONNER, Steve McQueen is the title character, an aging rodeo champ who returns to his home town to participate in the annual rodeo. He finds his family estranged, does what he can to help, and then moves on...after some good rodeo riding and a few brawls. Read more

Starring Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Joe Don Baker
Director Sam Peckinpah
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller

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Junior Bonner

In Sam Peckinpah's JUNIOR BONNER, Steve McQueen is the title character, an aging rodeo champ who returns to his home town to participate in the annual rodeo. He finds his family estranged, does what he can to help, and then moves on...after some good rodeo riding and a few brawls.

Starring Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Joe Don Baker, Ben Johnson, Barbara Leigh, Bill McKinney, Mary Murphy
Director Sam Peckinpah
Studio PRISM LEISURE
Run time DVD: 1 hr 40 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 08 Apr 2002
Production year: 1972
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (3) of Junior Bonner

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    Sam Peckinpah was one of the most talented movie directors ever. He could be both tough (The Wild Bunch) and tender in (The Ballad of Cable Hogue) and his best work shows a craftsmanship and understanding of film-making that barely exists in Hollywood today. Peckinpah was happiest among fellow professionals, and here he tells a tale of such a pro, the rodeo rider of the title, brilliantly played by Steve McQueen. As Junior tries to ride the unrideable, we watch his life pass by in the company of the superbly cast Robert Preston and Ida Lupino as his parents, Ace and Elvira Bonner, and Joe Don Baker as his venal brother Curly. The Todd-AO widescreen compositions lose considerable impact on TV, but the substance endures.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • Peckinpah coasting enjoyably between Straw Dogs and The Getaway with an elegiac reworking of Nick Ray's The Lusty Men,... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    Nice movie

    This movie may now seem a bit old-fashioned but its heart is in the right place and the cast is brilliant all along. It's a nice portrait of a man who's seen the best of his days but still carries on as usual on the rodeo road... Not the best of Peckinpah but far from the worst.

      • nicoloco from london
      • Posted 13 Mar 2004 11:37

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    True Steve Mc Queen

    A slow but touching story in true Steve Mc Queen style, he plays a cool character who deep down has a heart of gold. A good film for all his fans but the deep southern accents sometimes make it hard to understand dialogue.

      • Larry Longton from Sunny Chorley
      • Posted 31 Jan 2005 09:23

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