Cattle Annie and Little Britches

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

The film was favorably reviewed by the critic Pauline Kael in The New Yorker. The cinematography by Larry Pizer is vivid..the colors are strikingly crisp and intense. The dialogue and most of the incidents have a neat, dry humor. Its a wonderful, partly true story...there are some wonderful performances. As Bill Doolin, Lancaster who made the film before Atlantic City, is a gent surrounded by louts a charmer. When he talks to his gang he uses the lithe movements and the rhythmic, courtly delivery that his Crimson Pirate had when he told his boys to gather round. In his scenes with Diane Lane, the child actor who appeared in New York in several of Andrei Serbans stage productions, and who single handedly made the film A Little Romance almost worth seeing, Lancaster has an easy tenderness that is never overdone. Lancaster looks happy in the movie and still looks tough its an unbeatable combination. Young Amanda Plummer gives a scarily brilliant performance.

Source: Wikipedia