Word: bubber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ignorant Texans are the targets, and Scenarist Hellman blows the lid off a snake pit of contemporary evil when the town's bad boy, Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford), escapes from prison and heads home to settle scores among a scroungy lot of drunken, wife-swapping, white-collar workers who carry their pistols to parties of a Saturday night. "Shoot a man for sleepin' with someone's wife?" cries a roundheeled young matron, Janice Rule. "Half the town 'ud be wiped out." Poor Bubber's Mama (Miriam Hopkins), cast as Parental Guilt, hysterically accepts blame...
...vulgar new-rich Texans pledge donations to found a college near by, in order to protect their young against the perils of an education at Harvard. Marshall's son, played by Britain's James Fox, drawls endearments to Jane Fonda, who conquers a casting error as Bubber's faithless wife, making trollopy white trash seem altogether first class. Actor Redford, as Bubber, plays a born loser engagingly but cannot quite mask the clear-eyed confidence of a boy born lucky. All three finally flee to a flaming auto junkyard where virtually the entire county converges, brandishing torches...