Directed by Nicholas Ray
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Retired rodeo star Mitchum befriends ranch hand and aspiring rodeo cowboy Arthur Kennedy. He agrees to pay Mitchum half his winnings in exchange for mentoring and training. They travel the rodeo circuit along with Kennedy's wife Susan Hayward. Kennedy becomes a success, but has trouble dealing with it, so starts drinking, gambling and womanizing. Hayward sticks by his side, despite advances from Mitchum, until a tragedy changes all of their lives. Interesting look at day-to-day rodeo life, but overlong and a tendency to become more like a documentary than a drama.
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