Junior Bonner

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Junior Bonner
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySam Peckinpah
Written byJeb Rosebrook
Produced byJoe Wizan
Starring
CinematographyLucien Ballard
Edited by
Music byJerry Fielding
Production
companies
  • ABC Pictures
  • Joe Wizan-Booth Gardner Productions
  • Solar Productions
Distributed by
Release dates
  • June 11, 1972 (1972-06-11) (Dallas, Texas)[1]
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3.2 million[2]
Box office$2.8 million[3][2]

Junior Bonner is a 1972 American contemporary Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Joe Don Baker and Ida Lupino. The film focuses on a veteran rodeo rider as he returns to his hometown of Prescott, Arizona, to participate in an annual rodeo competition and reunite with his brother and estranged parents. Many critics consider it to be the warmest and most gentle of Peckinpah's films.

  1. ^ "Junior Bonner – Details". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "ABC Pix: Post-Mortem 'Audit'". Variety. May 30, 1973. p. 5. Retrieved December 10, 2023 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ^ "ABC's 5 Years of Film Production Profits & Losses". Daily Variety. May 31, 1973. p. 3.