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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Missouri Breaks

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snr_alejandro_sosa — 11 years ago(July 19, 2014 01:30 PM)

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Perhaps I missed a key line, but I'm assuming that the ranch owner had his wife and her lover killed after his wife left him?
This is what he is basically repeating with the hiring of the regulator. Was this the intention at first? And the regulator catches on to this in the "how to kill bats" scene. However the ranch owner retorts do not get involved in his family business, so any opinions on this?

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timlin-4 — 11 years ago(January 26, 2015 04:48 PM)

My impression was that he didn't kill them and is making up for it, though your guess is as good as mine, the movie is kind of thrown together

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SealedCargo — 6 years ago(November 19, 2019 11:14 AM)

it's not that big a deal. the guy's wife left him. it happens. happened to George Lucas. his wife left him for a construction worker on the Skywalker Ranch.
men leave their wives too, for secretaries, etc.
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