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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.
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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.
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.
The Cowboys (1972) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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.
The Cowboys (1972) Rated PG. 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.
One of screen icon John Wayne's finest twilight films, The Cowboys was a box-office hit in 1972 and controversial in the movie career of Wayne (but you'll have to see it to understand...
