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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.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Mark Rydell
- 1969-12-25
A family-friendly adventure film based on William Faulkner's novel, starring Steve McQueen as a chauffeur who kidnaps a car and a boy. The film follows their journey from Mississippi to Memphis, where they face dangers, romance and a horse race.
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.
- William Faulkner
- 1962
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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- Mark Rydell
- PG-13
- Steve Mcqueen
A coming-of-age story of a boy who joins his grandfather's handyman and a mulatto on a road trip from Mississippi to Memphis in 1905. They face adventures, dangers, and moral dilemmas along the way, involving a car, a horse, and a whorehouse.
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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.
