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Shrivers fought in the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War; one ancestor, David Shriver, was a member of the original Bill of Rights Congress, and Sargent's grandfather rode with Jeb Stuart in the Confederate cavalry. Son of a banker, Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. was born in Westminster, Md., where the nearby family homestead and grain mill, built in 1797, is now a museum run by the Shriver Foundation. Sargent prepped at Canterbury School, New Milford, Conn., went on to graduate cum laude from Yale. As editor of the Yale Daily News, Shriver, a Catholic, once proudly...
...director Sam Peckinpah and writer Jeb Rosebrook want us to learn more about Junior Bonner and through him. Bonner is the not inglorious hero of his film, both his attitude towards the world and his personal morality make him so. Bonner knows that most of Prescott is for shit, pure and simple; that most of the people never appreciated that Arizona morning, and hustle like carney hucksters to package the West which gives them their identity and heritage and sell it for a price--if it makes surviving easier. Junior can't settle for that mediocrity, can't stand...
There are flaws in the film, as there are in every Peckinpah production, but they are mostly due to Jeb Rosebrook's dialogue. Ace's language is sometimes that of a 19th century vaudevillian, and if God only knows what rodeo groupies talk like, it must be something different than what is said here. But there is enough full achieved in this film--with the aid of photographer Lucien Ballard, composer Jerry Fielding, and the setting and people of Prescott (where the first pro rodeo was held in 1888)-to reaffirm my faith in Sam Peckinpah as the first American...
Directed by SAM PECKINPAH Screenplay by JEB ROSENBROOK...
...fault is partly in the cumbrous plot. After a TV giveaway marriage, Myrtle (Lynn Redgrave) and Jeb (James Coburn) find themselves hostile strangers. Winded, impotent, pulling marijuana smoke into a cancerous lung, Jeb courts death instead of his bride. In a Louisiana mansion as corroded as he is, Jeb introduces Myrtle to his half-brother Chicken (Robert Hooks). From the newlyweds' point of view, Chicken has several drawbacks: he is surly, he is vengeful and he is black?"a mistake" claims Jeb, "of my father's." Like two halves of the same soul, the siblings are rivals for the property...