The Honkers (1972)

[Winston T. Boogie]

Title: The Honkers (1972)

Tagline: A honker is a rough bull or bronc that can't be broken. Lew Lathrop is a honker!

Genre: Comedy, Western, Action

Director: Steve Ihnat

Cast: James Coburn, Lois Nettleton, Slim Pickens, Anne Archer, Richard Anderson, Joan Huntington, Jim Davis, Ramon Bieri, Ted Eccles, Mitchell Ryan

Release: 1972-05-17

Runtime: 102

Plot: An over-the-hill rodeo champion is so self-centered that he ignores his wife, son, and best friend.

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

This is one of those sort of forgotten pictures that I'd like to see on Blu-ray, a search for it seems to turn up nothing, can't even find the trailer for it on youtube. Just this...



It's a United Artists picture and I wonder if Kino might pick this up.

 

[JohnHopper]

This is one of those sort of forgotten pictures that I'd like to see on Blu-ray, a search for it seems to turn up nothing, can't even find the trailer for it on youtube. Just this...



It's a United Artists picture and I wonder if Kino might pick this up.

Oddly enough, The Honkers is part of a trend of modern-day cow-boy films done in the early Seventies:
see J.W. Coop (1971), Junior Bonner (1972).

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

Oddly enough, The Honkers is part of a trend of modern-day cow-boy films done in the early Seventies:
see J.W. Coop (1971), Junior Bonner (1972).

Yes, I have both of those pictures in my collection. Bonner on blu and Coop on DVD. I think the only hope of The Honkers coming out is Kino. It's got an excellent cast and would be a very cool release as I am not sure if this film even got a VHS release.

 

[mark brown]

Is Rancho Deluxe available on Blu?

 

[JohnHopper]

Yes, I have both of those pictures in my collection. Bonner on blu and Coop on DVD. I think the only hope of The Honkers coming out is Kino. It's got an excellent cast and would be a very cool release as I am not sure if this film even got a VHS release.

The Honkers had no VHS release. I wish I could watch it because it is a must-see for James Coburn aficionados.
It's a rare film and hard to watch because it was not directed by a big name but by an actor, mostly known for his television output. Oddly enough, the producers team was related to a western tv series: The Big Valley.

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

Is Rancho Deluxe available on Blu?

No, but it would be great if someone brought that out on blu. I have the DVD.

 

[JohnHopper]

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Speaking of rodeo, there used to be trend on television in the early Sixties:

Stoney Burke​

The Wide Country​

That trend started from the end of the Golden Age:
see Nicholas Ray's The Lusty Men and John Huston's The Misfits.

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[JohnHopper]

I finally watched The Honkers and it is the companion piece to Junior Bonner or should I say it’s James Coburn’s answer to Steve McQueen’s Junior Bonner. The tone is different because of the leading actor’s idiosyncrasy and sightly grim but it’s a good film on the whole (actors, script, film-making). Recommended.

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

I finally watched The Honkers and it is the companion piece to Junior Bonner or should I say it’s James Coburn’s answer to Steve McQueen’s Junior Bonner. The tone is different because of the leading actor’s idiosyncrasy and sightly grim but it’s a good film on the whole (actors, script, film-making). Recommended.

Where and how did you watch it, John? Is this streaming? I've never found it anywhere, at least up to the time I made the post about it here.

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

Is Rancho Deluxe available on Blu?

And Rancho Deluxe did end up coming out on Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome. It's a beautiful blu as well.

 

[JohnHopper]

Where and how did you watch it, John? Is this streaming? I've never found it anywhere, at least up to the time I made the post about it here.

It's on YouTube!