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The Cowboys is a 1972 American Western film starring John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Bruce Dern, and featuring Colleen Dewhurst and Slim Pickens. It was the feature film debut of Robert Carradine.
Jan 13, 1972 · With John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst. Rancher Wil Andersen is forced to hire inexperienced boys as cowhands in order to get his cattle herd to market on time but the rough drive is full of dangers and a gang of rustlers is trailing them.
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The Cowboys (1972) It isn't just that John Wayne gets killed. He was killed before in the movies although not very often, and certainly not after he assumed the mantle of legend. No, it isn't that; he had to catch it sometime. And give him credit.
A veteran rancher is forced to hire 11 teenage boys as trail hands & in process of driving 1200 cattle across 400 miles, young cowboys become cowmen. 7,318 2 h 8 min 1972. X-Ray PG. Adventure · Drama · Thrilling · Touching. Available to rent or buy.
Rancher Wil Anderson (John Wayne) has a problem; he has to get 400 head of cattle to a railhead, and all the men in the area have left for the Gold Rush. His own sons have long since turned bad and landed in trouble, so Anderson is left to hire on a group of schoolboys, the oldest of whom is fifteen.
Directed by: Mark Rydell. Based on the novel by William Dale Jennings, a rancher looks to lose his livestock unless he can transform a ragtag bunch of schoolboys into cowboys.
