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'The Reivers' is a wonderful film set in Mississippi, about 1905. A good Steve Mc Queen film with Will Geer as the grandfather turned in fine performances. It fearured accurate period clothing. The narration by Burgess Meredith contained some excellent lines. The film was based on the Faukner book about the risque exploits of a well brought up 11/12 year old boy (Mitch Vogel). He has to "do his manners" when meeting people. With a never-do-well cousin (McQueen) they take off for the big city in his father's car. The boy wears knee pants and long stockings. In one scene he is shown putting on his stockings.
The film was based on the William Faukner novel "The Reivers" about the risque exploits of a well brought up 11/12 year old boy (Mitch Vogel). The narration by Burgess Meredith contained some excellent lines. The film was directed by Mark Rydell and featured a splendid musical score by John Williams.
The Reivers is a wonderful film set in Mississippi, about 1905.
A good Steve Mc Queen film with Will Geer as the grandfather turned in fine performances. Steve McQueen played Boon, the reiver (a
cheat or trickster and philanderer), Mitch Vogel as the 11 or 12 year old
Lucius McCaslin, Rupert Crosse as Ned, the African American best friend of
Boon, and Sharon Farrell as Boon's female friend, Corrie.
With a never-do-well cousin (McQueen) they take off for the big city in his father's car. The story, presented with great charm and wit as well as a certain
amount of nostalgia, is a coming-of age plot in which the boy Lucius
accompanies Boon and Ned to the big city, Jefferson, Mississipi, and learns a
few of life's important lessons in the process about life, loyalty, friendship,
competition, and honesty. The film is set in Mississippi about 1910 and seems
to be costumed with a fair degree of historical accuracy. Even in the hot
weather of the south Lucius never goes outdoors without his legs covered by
long stockings which he seems to accept as standard boy's dress for a pre-
teenager.
He has to "do his manners" when meeting people. One of the delights of the film is a yellow vintage touring car, which Lucius at one point is allowed
to drive.
"The Reivers" fearured accurate period clothing. Lucius wears knee pants and long stockings. For much of the film, Lucius wears a collarless shirt, knee pants held up by suspenders, long black stockings, and hightop shoes. Note also his peaked
cap, another standard article of boy's clothing in the first decade of the
twentieth century--even in the American South. When he dresses up, he wears a floppy bow tie and jacket over his knee pants, but he always wears the black stockings. In one scene, set in a brothel where Boon introduces Lucius to the "ladies of the night", Lucius is seen putting on his long stockings.
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