The Grey Fox

The Grey Fox

1982 · 92 min · EN · PG · 6.9 (26 votes)
Dir. Phillip Borsos · Starring Richard Farnsworth, Jackie Burroughs, Ken Pogue, Wayne Robson, Timothy Webber, Gary Reineke · Music Michael Conway Baker

In 1901, after 33 years in San Quentin Prison, Bill Miner, "The Gentleman Bandit", was released into the Twentieth Century.

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Old West highwayman Bill Miner, known to Pinkertons as "The Gentleman Bandit," is released in 1901 after 33 years in prison, a genial and charming old man. Entering a world unfamiliar to him, he returns to the only thing that gives him purpose — robbery.

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A wistful journey into a bygone era. It feels like a gentle, melancholic sigh for a lost world, carried by the quiet charm of an aging outlaw finding purpose in his final acts.

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