Four rodeo movies were released in 1972: Junior Bonner, J.W. Coop, When the Legends Die and The Honkers. (You might find four rodeo pictures in all the previous 72 years!) All four of the 1972 films are pretty good and have the same basic set-up of an aging rodeo star coming to grips with the approaching end of his career. Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen) returns to his hometown in Texas to ride in the local rodeo. Junior reunites with his embittered mother (Ida Lupino), his alcoholic, former ro
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