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McQueen hams it up in Faulkners early 1900s Southern misadventure
In northern Mississippi, 1905, the first automobile is brought to town, a yellow Winton Flyer, bought by the patriarch of the McCaslin family (Will Geer). A likable rapscallion named Boon (Steve McQueen) talks the 11 year-old McCaslin grandson (Mitch Vogel) into going to Memphis in the borrowed vehicle for a few days while gramps is out of town for a funeral. Rupert Crosse joins the fun trip and Sharon Farrell plays a woman of ill repute in Memphis.
Based on William Faulkners last novel, "The Reivers (1969) is a picaresque tale thats worth seeing just for the primitive automobile. Steve called the vehicle the real star of the picture and acquired it after filming ...