Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981)

Directed by

Lamont Johnson

Genre

drama film, Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two teenage girls in 1880s Oklahoma read stories about outlaws and run away to join them. They learn about real life crime while chasing their fantasy of the Wild West.

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What happens

Cattle Annie and Little Britches is a 1981 American Western film, starring Burt Lancaster, John Savage, Rod Steiger, Diane Lane, and Amanda Plummer, based on the lives of two adolescent girls in late 19th-century Oklahoma Territory, who became infatuated with the Western outlaws they had read about in Ned Buntline's stories, and left their homes to join the criminals. It was scripted by David Eyre and Robert Ward from Ward's book, and directed by Lamont Johnson. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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