Film

The Big Bounce

The Run Down.

Jack Ryan is a young Vietnam veteran with a criminal record, who gets fired from his job as a migrant laborer on a produce farm. When Ryan takes a job at a local motel, he meets a young woman named Nancy who wants him to help her rob the farm-camp owner's safe, which allegedly has $50,000 of payroll money in it. Ryan reluctantly agrees to help with the heist, but becomes highly distrustful of Nancy, suspecting she may double-cross him to keep all the money for herself. (IMDB)

Release Year: 1969

Source: Novel ( The Big Bounce)

Director: Alex March

Written by: Robert Dozier

Production: Warner Bros., Seven Arts

Starring: Ryan O'Neil, Leigh Taylor-Young

Runtime: 110 Minutes

The New York Times

"Have you ever thought of doing something else?" Mr. Heflin asks our hero at one point. It's a question that could have been put to almost everyone concerned with "The Big Bounce."

— The New York Times

The Book: The Big Bounce

Jack Ryan always wanted to play pro ball. But he couldn't hit a curveball, so he turned his attentions to less legal pursuits. A tough guy who likes walking the razor's edge, he's just met his match—and more—in Nancy. She's a rich man's plaything, seriously into thrills and risk, and together she and Jack are pure heat ready to explode. But when simple housebreaking and burglary give way to the deadly pursuit of a really big score, the stakes suddenly skyrocket. Because violence and double-crosses are the name of this game—and it's going to take every ounce of cunning Jack and Nancy possess to survive . . . each other.