The Cowboys (1972)
75 %
Reviews Counted: 12 Fresh: 9 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 6.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 15 mins
Synopsis:
After his cowhands desert him for a nearby gold rush, aging, leather-tough rancher Will Anderson (John Wayne) resorts to hiring 11 schoolboys to help him on a 400-mile cattle run. Setting off with the boys and an eloquent but equally tough black cook (Roscoe Lee Browne), Anderson must get his... [More]
Genre: Westerns
Starring: John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Slim Pickens, Colleen Dewhurst, Bruce Dern
Director: Mark Rydell
Screenwriter: Irving Ravetch, Harriet, Jr. Frank, William Dale Jennings
Producer: Mark Rydell
Composer: John Williams
Screenwriter: Irving Ravetch, Harriet, Jr. Frank, William Dale Jennings
Producer: Mark Rydell
Composer: John Williams
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A coming-of-age film of the toughest sort. Far from Wayne's best, but nevertheless a movie whose ending ignites a heated discussion.
08/01/07 07:36 AM
Even with a closing that breaks with tradition, The Cowboys is not as eventful as one would have hoped for in a John Wayne movie.
05/24/07 11:23 AM
At the center of this picture, just as in Red River, is the passing of the Western mores and masculinity code from John Wayne to the younger generation. Rydell's Western is formulaic and familiar, but the Duke is in top form.
11/10/06 08:54 AM
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06/24/06 04:19 AM
how old Hollywood promoted conservative agenda with the skill and efficiency modern-day liberals and leftists can only dream about
10/11/05 06:00 AM
An engaging late John Wayne Western, though the macho philosophy of the need to kill might turn off the more liberal viewer.
09/16/05 02:34 PM
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