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Young Lucius (Mitch Vogel) spends most of his time hanging out with a casually amoral employee of his grandfather's named Boon Hogganbeck (Steve McQueen). When Grandfather (Will Geer) and the rest of the family leave town for a few days, Boon borrows their prize possession-a gleaming and glorious yellow Winton Flyer. He persuades Lucius to tell a string of whoppers to the relatives caring for him and, in the company of a genial black man named Ned McCaslin (Rupert Crosse), drives downstate to the big city. Boon wants to see his girl Corrie (Sharon Farrell), a particularly...
...principal character in the story is a Winton Flyer, one of the first automobiles ever seen in Yoknapatawpha County. Its owner is old Lucius ("Boss") Priest, a member of the cadet branch of the county's first families (the Edmondses and McCaslins), but its proud chauffeur is Boon Hogganbeck, the childlike, "tough, faithful, brave and completely unreliable" part Indian who be came famous in The Bear for not being able to hit anything with a shotgun, rifle or weapon of any kind...
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