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The Reivers (also known as The Yellow Winton Flyer in the U.K.) is a 1969 Technicolor film in Panavision starring Steve McQueen and directed by Mark Rydell, based on the 1962 William Faulkner novel The Reivers, a Reminiscence.
The Reivers: Directed by Mark Rydell. With Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Ruth White, Michael Constantine. In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
The story is based on William Faulkner's novel, and tells about a magnificent trip between Jefferson and Memphis, back in 1912, in a kidnapped Winton Flyer. The trip was organized by an adventuresome chauffeur ( Steve McQueen ), and joined by a 12-year-old (Mitch Vogel) and his Negro second cousin ( Rupert Crosse ).
Plot. In the early 20th century, an 11-year-old boy named Lucius Priest (a distant cousin of the McCaslin/Edmonds family Faulkner wrote about in Go Down, Moses) somewhat unwittingly gets embroiled in a plot to go to Memphis with dimwitted family friend and manservant Boon Hogganbeck.
In Mississippi at the turn of the 20th century, 11-year-old Lucius McCaslin (Mitch Vogel) embarks on a journey he will remember for years to...
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- Comedy, Drama
- PG-13
In 1905, a train rolls into a quiet and happy Mississippi town where Lucius (Mitch Vogell), a boy of 11, is about to begin his journey to manhood as his grandfather, Boss (Will Geer) has the town's first car delivered, a yellow Winton Flier.
The Reivers. From the Pulitzer Prize-Winning novel by William Faulkner, Steve McQueen stars in the story of a Mississippi boy who drives to Memphis with two rascals in his family's new car—a 1905 Winton Flyer. 432 IMDb 6.6 1 h 51 min 1969. X-Ray PG-13.
