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Junior Bonner |  | Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson, Joe Don Baker
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 25529
Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 027616905765
ISBN: 0792860519
UPC: 027616905765
EAN: 9780792860518
ASIN: B0001GF2JC
Theatrical Release Date: August 2, 1972
Release Date: May 25, 2004
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Amazon.com essential video
Junior Bonner is director Sam Peckinpah's lovely, elegiac look at the world of the rodeo--and his only film with nary a bullet wound. Steve McQueen, engagingly easygoing but determined, is the title character, a rodeo rider out to win a big bull-riding contest in his hometown. Even as he confronts his dwindling days on the circuit, he also must deal with his feuding parents, marvelously played by Robert Preston and Ida Lupino. Preston is particularly good as the randy old con artist; he and Lupino strike real sparks. Peckinpah's slow-motion camera is put to particularly good use filming the balletic violence of the rodeo, at once more terrifying and awe-inspiring than any gun battle. A lovely country-western valentine to a dying breed. --Marshall Fine
Amazon.com
One of director Sam Peckinpah's lesser-known and little-seen outings, this is actually one of his most interesting for being so relaxed. Yet it deals with the themes that always interested him: the man who has watched the world pass him by and realizes that his time is gone. In this case, it's rodeo rider Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen), who returns home to try to win top prize in the bull-riding competition to raise money to stake his father (Robert Preston) to a future. As easy-going and good-natured as you'd like, with a delicious chemistry between Preston and a feisty Ida Lupino as Junior's estranged parents, who are still able to strike romantic sparks. Great rodeo footage captures both the violence and beauty of the sport. --Marshall Fine
Product Description
The story of an aging rodeo star who returns to his home town and finds his family in trouble.
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 One of the best rodeo movies ever !!! June 20, 2010
The Oklahoman
McQueen, Lupino, Preston, Ben Johnson, with Peckinpah and writer Rosebrook. No better grouping of talent anywhere.
This is a snapshot in time of rodeo.
Prescott, an old western town changing but trying not to.
Family.
Rodeo champions, what do they do and where do they go after the physical abilities are shot?
Rodeo has no big contracts or retirement plans, when it's over, it's over.
One of the best rodeo movies ever.
Others? Eight Seconds, J.W. Coop, The Lusty Men, The Misfits.
McQueen and Peckinpah -- not what you would expect June 7, 2010
GrannyBooks (Frankfort, OH USA)
When you think of Steve McQueen and Sam Peckinpah, you think of action and blood and noise. This movie has noise (at the rodeo) and some action (a bar fight, and the rodeo) and a little blood (from a brotherly dispute). But this is a movie about a family. They may not be a perfect family as most of us imagine a perfect family -- the Waltons they certainly are not -- but they love each other. The father was a rodeo champion years ago, and now dreams of finding gold in Australia. He can't stick in any one place or with any one idea for long. One son followed him into rodeo, and now finds himself becoming a little slower, a little stiffer, a little less quick to heal, and winning less often, but, unlike his father, he has no intention of quitting; the only place he really feels at home is on the road or in the saddle. The other son is trying to keep the family and the town going; he bought the family ranch when his dad needed money to go off chasing his dreams, and he is riding a real estate boom, selling trailers to retirees as Reata Rancheros. The mother still loves her husband, thoughtless, repetitive and irritating as he is, but she doesn't count on him for anything in the long run but disappointment.
Both Peckinpah and McQueen knew this was a small, quiet movie that needed to build an audience by word of mouth but the studio gave it the big opening weekend release they would have used for any action movie and they marketed it as such. Reviews were mixed and audiences expecting "a Steve McQueen action movie" were not impressed. As a result the film was a box office dud.
Filmed in Prescott, Arizona in 1972, the movie holds wonderful visual memories of a town that has since changed beyond recognition.
 Yikes! Small screen movie! December 9, 2009
G. Varga
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I can't believe nobody prominently mentioned that this dvd is a cheat! Why the weasels put out a film with no mention that it's shrunk to half size on your plasma is beyond me.
Why can't Obama do something good and require federal legislation to put warning labels on movies that are cheaters?
One of Peckinpah's Best August 17, 2009
J. D. Best, author (Arizona)
This is an exceptional film. great script, superb acting, and as they say in the commentary, "not just good editing, perfect editing." Peckinpah was a great director. Unlike most, I am not a huge fan of The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition). My favorite Peckinpah films are Junior Bonner and the The Ballad of Cable Hogue. Both character studies show that Peckinpah could do drama, as well as action/violence.
Junior Bonner shares a characteristic with Downhill Racer starring Robert Redford. Both of these sport films seem more realistic than a documentary. They capture the truth about a sport and the athletes that compete to win. Redford and McQueen also never had better roles or acted with more subtlety. Even if you don't care about rodeo or skiing, these films bring you into a fascinating world very unlike the way most of us live. If the film does get you interested in the real thing, try a documentary about the sport Professsional Bull Riders: 8 Second Heroes - Legendary Bulls
The DVD also has an excellent commentary that ought to be listened to by every film student or film enthusiast.
This is Sam Peckinpah's Masterpiece August 13, 2009
D. Best (Phoenix, AZ)
This is an exceptional film. great script, superb acting, and as they say in the commentary, "not just good editing, perfect editing." Peckinpah was a great director. Unlike most, I am not a huge fan of The Wild Bunch. My favorite Peckinpah films are Junior Bonner and the The Ballad of Cable Hogue. Both are character studies show that Peckinpah could do drama, as well as action/violence.
Junior Bonner shares a characteristic with Downhill Racer starring Robert Redford -- both sport films seem more realistic than a documentary. They capture the truth about a sport and the athletes that compete to win. Redford and McQueen also never had better roles or acted with more subtlety. Even if you don't care about rodeo or skiing, these films bring you into a fascinating world very unlike the way most of us live.
The DVD also has an excellent commentary that ought to be listened to by every film student or film enthusiast.
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