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William Faulkner's The Reivers [videorecording] / An Irving Ravetch-Arthur Kramer Production ; in association with Solar Productions ; produced by Irving Ravetch ; screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. ; directed by Mark Rydell.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 88784 | Paramount Pictures/CBC DVDLanguage: English, French Original language: English Series: Widescreen DVD collectionPublication details: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures/ CBS DVD, 2005.Edition: Widescreen versionDescription: 1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 1415709386
  • 9781415709382
Other title:
  • Reivers
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Music editor, Robert Y. Takagi ; production manager, Jack M. Reddish ; director of photography, Richard Moore ; production design, Charles Baley, Joel Schiller ; costume designer, Theodora Van Runkle ; film editor, Thomas Stanford ; music, John Williams.
Narrator: Burgess Meredith.Cast: Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Ruth White, Will Geer, Michael Constantine, Rupert Crosse, Mitch Vogel.Summary: Based on William Faulkner's warm, humorous, poignant story about a the advent of the automobile, a horse race and a boy's loss of innocence during an great adventure in the early 1900's South.
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Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD COMEDY Reivers Available 33111008283463
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Adapted from William Faulkner's final novel, The Reivers top-bills Steve McQueen, but the major character is feisty 11-year-old Lucius McCaslin, played by Mitch Vogel. Growing up in Mississippi in the early 1900s, Lucius finds himself (through a hectic series of circumstances) in a bordello, where he is nearly killed trying to defend the "fast lady" (Sharon Farrell) who has befriended him. He has been brought to the house of ill repute by ne'er-do-well farm hand Boon Hoggenbeck (Steve McQueen), with whom he has been tooling about the countryside in a vintage automobile, together with his very distant African-American relative Ned (Rupert Crosse). This adventure segues into the next, as the three man combine their resources to train a broken-down racehorse. Meanwhile, Vogel's grandfather (Will Geer), who owns the fancy automobile that the "reivers" hope to win back, threatens to reappear at any moment to tan Lucius's bottom. Not exactly as wholesome as a Disney film, The Reivers is nonetheless acceptable family entertainment, with Steve McQueen delivering one of his best and most laid-back performances. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Based on the novel by William Faulkner.

DVD release of the 1969 motion picture.

Music editor, Robert Y. Takagi ; production manager, Jack M. Reddish ; director of photography, Richard Moore ; production design, Charles Baley, Joel Schiller ; costume designer, Theodora Van Runkle ; film editor, Thomas Stanford ; music, John Williams.

Narrator: Burgess Meredith.

Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Ruth White, Will Geer, Michael Constantine, Rupert Crosse, Mitch Vogel.

Based on William Faulkner's warm, humorous, poignant story about a the advent of the automobile, a horse race and a boy's loss of innocence during an great adventure in the early 1900's South.

Rated PG-13 for sexual content, brief nudity, language and thematic developments.

DVD, widescreen presentation.

Closed-captioned.

Soundtracks: English (Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound); English (Dolby digital 2.0 surround sound); French (mono.); English subtitles.

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