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Movie Info

A successful rancher, Tom Reece (Glenn Ford), forges a business venture with a Mexican landowner (Donald Randolph) but finds himself in a bind after squandering a lot of money at a hotel run by Frank Harris (Jack Lemmon). Frank has strong feelings for the Mexican's daughter (Anna Kashfi), and when he learns that Tom is in a tough spot, he exploits the situation to get closer to his potential paramour. Frank takes to horseback alongside Tom, and both are surprised by the results.

Genre:

western
Original Language:

English
Director:

Delmer Daves
Producer:

Julian Blaustein
Writer:

Dalton Trumbo, Edmund H. North
Release Date (Streaming):

Apr 16, 2012
Runtime:

1h 32m
Production Co:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Cast & Crew

Glenn Ford
Tom Reese

Jack Lemmon
Frank Harris

Anna Kashfi
Maria Vidal

Brian Donlevy
Doc Bender

Dick York
Charlie

Víctor Manuel Manuel Mendoza
Paco Mendoza

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Critic Reviews for Cowboy

All Critics (8) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (2)

Considering its two male leads and the usually dependable direction of Delmer Daves, Cowboy remains a curious, if ultimately underwhelming Western.

October 8, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Nicholas Bell
IONCINEMA.com
...a fine premise that is, for the most part, employed to woefully uninvolving effect by Delmer Daves...

July 29, 2020 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews
At its heart Cowboy reveals the emptiness of the very masculinity celebrated in Red River.

May 3, 2020 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…

Nathanael Hood
Unseen Films
A good hard-boiled western with much less than the usual frontier hokum.

October 29, 2019 | Full Review…

Clyde Gilmour
Maclean's Magazine
Daves brings a kind of gritty realism and strong sense of framing, using the terrific performances of Ford and Lemmon to explore masculine rivalries and western mythos.

June 5, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Matthew Lucas
From the Front Row
At 92 minutes, Cowboy is simply too short to fully explore its characters and their arcs, but, to quote Pat and Mike's Spencer Tracy (albeit in a completely different context), "What's there is 'cherce.'"

March 12, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing
The only Western Jack Lemmon, better known for embodying on screen urban angst, has made, Cowboy is well acted by him and Glenn Ford.

August 24, 2012 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
Good Daves western featuring Ford and Lemmon.

October 25, 2004 | Rating: 4/5

Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan