McQueen hams it up in Faulkner’s early 1900’s 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 Faulkner’s last novel, "The Reivers” (1969) is a... read the rest.