Word: rodeos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Honker" is rodeo slang that freely translates either as "dangerous bull" (the animal, not the conversational variety) or as a particularly accommodating woman. Examples of each species are at large in The Honkers, and they cause no end of mischief. Whether of the two-or four-legged variety, they have a habit of throwing the feckless hero, Lew Lathrop (James Coburn), into a ringtail loop...
Lathrop enjoys modest fame in his occupation, which is rodeo riding, and immoderate success in his preoccupation, which is women. But his lust and insistent refusal to settle down prove his undoing. He loses his much abused wife (Lois Nettleton) and teen-age son just when he comes to realize he needs them both. He wrassles unsuccessfully with guilt when his best buddy, Clete (Slim Pickens), a rodeo clown who keeps an avuncular eye on Lew, gets his neck broken for his trouble. When last seen, Lew is wandering off over yonder hill, saddle over his shoulder, sadder but prob...
...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...