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Synopsis: Jack McKee (Jeff Bridges) and Cecil Colson (Sam Waterston) are bumbling drifters who make a living by rustling cattle in the wilds of Montana. Jack left his wealthy parents because he resented their posh lives. Cecil is of Caucasian and Native American descent seeking his own path in life away from his grumpy cowboy father (Joe Spinell). Both Jack and Cecil hustle and rustle their way in the world by targeting cattle owned by wealthy ranch-owner John Brown (Clifton James). Frustrated that someone is killing his cattle, John hires a pair of ranch hands, Burt and Curt (Richard Bright and Harry Dean Stanton), to find the rustlers. When Brown realizes he cannot trust his two inept ranch hands, he turns to the grizzled former rustler Henry Beige (Slim Pickens) to find the cattle thieves. Jack and Cecil always stay a step ahead of their pursuers, not realizing that their luck must run out sometime.
Director(s): Frank Perry
Production: United Artists
 
IMDB:
6.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
69%
R
Year:
1975
93 min
280 Views


if you should've given in

so easy when they whined and whined...

for another appaloosa,

high-Priced barrel racer.

Yes sir, they've probably

reverted to bucking stock by this time.

Oh shut up, jack,

and take off that ugly mask.

Give me a hand here, jack.

I've got to git.

Just run

all of your ponies into the old corral.

I'll send a stock truck

up for them in the morning.

Okay, dad.

Bye-Bye, daddy.

- How many horses

are we looking for? - Five.

Where shall we start looking?

Let's throw

the I ching and see.

No, we ain't throwin'

no I ching to find no horses. Damn.

Eat it, betty.

High school kids can't

pick their nose...

without gettin' stoned

or throwin' the I ching.

You can't sleep at night

without humpin' cowboys in the driveway.

- Watch your lip, Mary.

- Or demolition derby drivers,

Bank tellers, brand inspectors,

just to name a few.

Ladies, damn. I'm gettin' disillusioned.

INow, let's just

ride up there and catch these ponies.

To me, this is

America today.

God wants America

on horseback,

Findin' lost appaloosa

barrel racers.

Do I make

myself clear?

Mary, you and Cecil...

go to the top

of the south pasture,

And we'll go down

the forest service line.

We'll herd 'em back

from there.

If we catch one we'll have a simple

time with the others, okay?

Right.

Okay.

Make it to the tree,

she'll die, first fly.

INow Mary,

you don't know any such thing.

Yes, I do.

She's a dumb twat and I can't stand her.

She flushed two lids

down the toilet on me.

Smashed my black light

when she was drunk.

Tore up half my posters.

Scratched

my humble pie albums-

How much difference in age

is there between you? Two years.

But she's just about

exactly half as hip as my grandma is...

down at senior citizens'

crankin' out doilies.

IBetty-

IMe-

Jesus-

IYes-

God.

ILike that, yes!

Jesus.

Yeah!

That is Dyno supreme.

I am loaded.

Stoney weed, I tell you!

The most...

possible primo.

Wha-

Wait, yeah.

Yeah!

Baby!

Baby!

Come on.

Baby!

Baby!

Baby!

Jack.

You-

Oh, you miserable

son of a b*tch!

Is nothing

sacred to you? Woo!

Hey!

Why have I asked you

to save these?

I have asked you

to save these...

because they will

help show us...

that these rustling cases

are all the work of the same man.

But a lot of people

have 270s, Ms. Brown.

Curt,

you're a slow boat to china.

Now, Burt, will you tell

curt what I told you?

Curt.

Yes, Burt?

The firing pin

of a rifle is just like a fingerprint.

And we're gonna send

those cases down to the ballistics lab.

All right.

Anybody feel like dancin'?

How 'bout you, slow boat?

Music's a little

hard to dance to.

Come on, goddamn it.

I want some gothic

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Thomas McGuane

Thomas Francis McGuane III (born December 11, 1939) is an American writer. His work includes ten novels, short fiction and screenplays, as well as three collections of essays devoted to his life in the outdoors. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The National Cutting Horse Association Hall of Fame and the Flyfishing Hall of Fame. Thomas McGuane was the keynote speaker for the 2016 Montana State University Trout and Salomonid Lecture Series. McGuane also partook in an oral history project conducted by Montana State University pertaining to his life as an angler and angling author.McGuane has three children, Annie, Maggie and Thomas. more…

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