As often, Steve MacQueen (who plays the eponymous hero) doesn't really appear to be acting, but simply fits into his role. Director Sam Peckinpah is best known for excessive movies like 'The Wild Bunch', but here he plays a surprisingly restrained hand, and the film has a low key, believable feel. The real subject of most westerns was not cowboys and injuns, but the passing of an era and in this film, about a star rodeo rider, this is typified by the contrast between his father (a man for whom the skills of the ring were also the stuff of everyday life) and his (prescient) brother Curly, hustling for his first million by selling real estate to easterners with no feel for the land. 'Junior Bonner' was made in 1972 and set in a then contemporary Arizona but in many ways, it is a true western. Reviewed by paul2001sw-1 8 / 10 A subtle, modern western
As the old West and its code give way to progress, Junior is lonesome, laconic, and on the road - just where he wants to be. Junior just wants to stay on a bucking Brahma for eight seconds, hang out with Ace, find a way to spend time with a beautiful woman whose eyes catch his, and earn enough to get to next week's rodeo.
His dad, Ace, is a dissolute dreamer fixed on finding gold in Australia his mom is resigned to Ace's roving his brother Curly is tearing up the countryside to make a million in real estate.
A week with Junior Bonner, a rodeo pro on the wrong side of 40, broke, bruised, and headed into Prescott, his home town, for the annual 4th of July Frontier Days.
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