Word: rodeoing
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...Coop (Cliff Robertson) is a rodeo rider who has spent the better part of a decade in stir, serving his time while winning points for the prison rodeo team. Now that he is outside again, he finds that things have changed. He returns home to discover both the old place and his old Ma (Geraldine Page) have suffered something of a decline. Hippies are abroad in the land-even in Texas. Top hands fly to rodeos in private planes and talk about their brokers...
...hits the comeback trail and takes up with a backpack bohemian (Christina Ferrare) who crafts peace emblems out of licorice whips and plies him with soybeans "for high protein." Whether spurred by love or the soybeans, J.W. works himself up to No. 2 rodeo rider in the nation...
...proposes marriage. The girl promptly deserts him. Stuck behind the rodeo champ ("Second's the bottom"), J.W. takes a last desperate shot at glory by riding the toughest bull in the rodeo even though his leg is in a cast. He winds up gored on the horns of his greatest triumph...
...movie is at its best in its careful, funky observations of rodeo life, from small-time local contests to the boisterous extravaganzas that look more like circuses. Fledgling Director Robertson has a good eye for the back roads of America and a sharp feeling for what it is like to be short on money and hope...
Paul Newman and Lee Marvin are rounders scuffling through Mexico, trying to get together a herd of cattle for a rodeo back in the States. While driving down a street in Nogales, they spot a Mexican who has been giving them a good deal of trouble. Newman jumps out of the car, grabs a rock and tosses it far wide of the puzzled Mexican...