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The Cowboys is a 1972 American Western film starring John Wayne, [3] Roscoe Lee Browne, and Bruce Dern, and featuring Colleen Dewhurst and Slim Pickens. [4] It was the feature film debut of Robert Carradine. Based on the 1971 novel of the same name by William Dale Jennings, [3] [4] [5] the screenplay was written by Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank ...
Jan 13, 1972 · The Cowboys: Directed by Mark Rydell. 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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- Adventure, Drama, Western
- Mark Rydell
- 1972-01-13
Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the classic Western film The Cowboys, directed by Mark Rydell and starring John Wayne. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers, and more on IMDb.
He's killed while he's unarmed (and after having already beaten the daylights out of a man thirty-five years his junior). But then. Well, the kids break open a packing crate and get their rifles and pistols back. These are kids without a lot of heavy shooting behind them, you understand. Two of them are fifteen.
The Cowboys, under the directorial hand of Mark Rydell, was no exception. Though some don't consider Wayne's performance to be up to his turns in Stagecoach (1939) or The Quiet Man (1952), it's hard to think of a seventies film where Wayne is more in his element than in The Cowboys. Roscoe Browne also excels as Nightlinger, the ragtag group's ...
- Mark Rydell
- John Wayne
1972 · 2 hr 9 min. TV-PG. Western. 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. Subtitles: English. Starring: John Wayne Roscoe Lee Browne Bruce Dern Colleen Dewhurst Slim Pickens A Martinez Robert Carradine Allyn Ann McLerie Alfred Barker ...
- Mark Rydell
- January 1, 1972
- 128 min
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Henry Wills. Rustler. Joe Yrigoyen. Rustler. Ralph Volkie. Ralphie (uncredited) Ivan Brutsche. Towns Person (uncredited) When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster.
