The Reivers

Comic road movie about the exploits of a young boy who zooms off to Memphis with his family’s hired hand and an eccentric relative in the boy’s parents’ car to discover the high life. During the trip, the hired hand falls in love with a prostitute, the relative sells the family’s prized car for a bet at the horse races, and the boy learns a thing or two about growing up., Growing up in Mississippi in the early 1900s, young Mitch Vogel finds himself tooling around the country in a vintage automobile with ne’er-do-well farm hand Steve McQueen and distant black relative Rupert Crosse. The three have a series of adventures, including training a broken-down racehorse., An old man reflects on the year he learned about racism and vice during a 1905 road trip to Memphis that he was taken on by two adult companions in his grandfather’s “borrowed” Winton Flyer auto. An adaptation of a William Faulkner novel., Steve McQueen, Rupert Crosse and Mitch Vogel star as an ill-matched trio who have to compete in a horse race in an attempt to win back the car they borrowed and then subsequently sold in exchange for a horse. This charming turn-of-the-century comedy-drama is based on the final novel by William Faulkner., Hired hand Boon persuades his boss’s boy Lucius to take the family jalopy on an eventful jaunt across America’s Deep South. Nostalgic coming-of-age tale with a fine John Williams score, based on William Faulkner’s last novel.