THE MISSOURI BREAKS (1976)

Cast

Plot

A wonderfully quirky Western, brilliantly scripted by Thomas McGuane. A powerful, thoughtful, at times brutal, meditation on the lawlessness of the American west, a world where the thief and lawman are simply different sides of the same coin. One of the few truly major Westerns of the 70s, with a very clear vision of the historical role played by fear and violence in the taming of the wilderness.