The Cowboys (1972)

6.9	Rating (61 ratings)
7.4	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Mark Rydell

Starring (View all)

John Wayne
Wil Andersen

Roscoe Lee Browne
Jebediah Nightlinger

Bruce Dern
Long Hair

Colleen Dewhurst
Kate

Alfred Barker Jr.
Fats - Cowboy

Nicolas Beauvy
Dan - Cowboy

Steve Benedict
Steve - Cowboy

Robert Carradine
Slim Honeycutt - Cowboy

Written by

Irving Ravetch
(screenplay)

Harriet Frank Jr.
(screenplay) and

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A surprisingly bland Western...

15 years, 7 months ago at Oct 8 8:36

PvtCaboose91

"Now this is the way it's gonna be: I'm a man and you're boys. Not cowmen, not by a damn sight, nothing but cowboys just like the word says. And I'm gonna remind you of it every single minute of every day and night."

The Cowboys is an intriguing Western, and one of John Wayne's final films. When the cameras rolled for this film, Wayne was in his early 60s and looking it. It had been... read more

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Release date: 13 January 1972
UPC: 085391518327

Tags: Western (6), Action (3), John Wayne (2), Bandits (2), Horses (2), Cows (2), 1970s (2), 1972 (2), Violence (2), Adventure (2), Revenge (2), Guns (2), Drama (2), Young Kids (1), Mark Rydell (1), Herd Of Cattle (1), John Wayne On Screen Death (1), Cattle Drive (1), Bruce Dern (1), The Duke (1)

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" John Wayne When his ranch hands abandon him to join a gold rush, aging rancher William ‘Wil’ Andersen (John Wayne) is forced to find replacement drovers for his upcoming 400-mile (640 km) long cattle drive. He rides into deserted Bozeman, Montana. There, his friend Anse Peterson (Slim Pickens) suggests using local schoolboys. Andersen visits the school but departs unconvinced by the boys' immature behavior. (Wikipedia)"