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The Cowboys

All they wanted was their chance to be men... and he gave it to them.

  • Movie
  • 1972
  • PG
  • 2h 14m

Directed by Mark Rydell

7.1

TMDB audience rating
7.1 out of 10 from 278 votes

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Overview

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. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.

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Cast and crew

  • John Wayne

    John WayneWil Andersen

  • Roscoe Lee Browne

    Roscoe Lee BrowneJebediah Nightlinger

  • Bruce Dern

    Bruce DernLong Hair

  • Colleen Dewhurst

    Colleen DewhurstKate

  • Alfred Barker Jr.

    Alfred Barker Jr.Cowboy Fats

  • Nicolas Beauvy

    Nicolas BeauvyCowboy Dan

  • Steve Benedict

    Steve BenedictCowboy Steve

  • Robert Carradine

    Robert CarradineCowboy Slim Honeycutt

  • Norman Howell

    Norman HowellCowboy Weedy

  • Stephen R. Hudis

    Stephen R. HudisCowboy Charlie Schwartz

  • Sean KellyCowboy Stuttering Bob

  • A Martinez

    A MartinezCowboy Cimarron

  • Clay O'Brien

    Clay O'BrienCowboy Hardy Fimps

  • Sam O'BrienCowboy Jimmy Phillips

  • Mike PyeattCowboy Homer Weems

  • Slim Pickens

    Slim PickensAnse

  • Lonny Chapman

    Lonny ChapmanHomer's Father

  • Charles Tyner

    Charles TynerStonemason

Director
Mark Rydell
Writer
Irving Ravetch, William Dale Jennings and Harriet Frank Jr.
Music
John Williams
Cinematography
Robert Surtees