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The Reivers (also known as The Yellow Winton Flyer in the U.K.) is a 1969 Technicolor film in Panavision starring Steve McQueen and directed by Mark Rydell, based on the 1962 William Faulkner novel The Reivers, a Reminiscence.
Plot. In the early 20th century, an 11-year-old boy named Lucius Priest (a distant cousin of the McCaslin/Edmonds family Faulkner wrote about in Go Down, Moses) somewhat unwittingly gets embroiled in a plot to go to Memphis with dimwitted family friend and manservant Boon Hogganbeck.
- William Faulkner
- 1962
The Reivers: Directed by Mark Rydell. With Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Ruth White, Michael Constantine. In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Mark Rydell
- 1969-12-25
Harriet Frank Jr. "The Reivers" is a pleasant, wholesome, straightforward movie of the sort (as they say) they don't make anymore. Once was, Hollywood had the knack of turning out absorbing entertainments that really were family films.
A young man comes of age when he stows away in his grandfather's stolen car.
The Reivers (1969) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.