The Cowboys

The Cowboys

The Cowboys

Genres
Western Adventure Drama Action

Release Date: Jan 13, 1972

Runtime: 134 minutes

Rating: 7.1/10

Status: Released

Production Companies
  • Sanford Productions (III)
  • Warner Bros. Pictures

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.

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

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Cast

John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst, Alfred Barker Jr. ,

Nicolas Beauvy, Steve Benedict, Robert Carradine, Norman Howell, Stephen R. Hudis, Sean Kelly, A Martinez, Clay O'Brien, Sam O'Brien, Mike Pyeatt, Slim Pickens, Lonny Chapman, Charles Tyner, Sarah Cunningham, Allyn Ann McLerie, Maggie Costain, Matt Clark, Jerry Gatlin, Walter Scott, Richard Farnsworth, Wallace Brooks, Charise Cullin, Collette Poeppel, Rita Hudis, Margaret Kelly, Larry Randles, Larry Finley, Jim Burk, Norman Howell Sr., Fred Brookfield, Tap Canutt, Chuck Courtney, Gary Epper, Tony Epper, Kent Hays, J.R. Randall, Henry Wills, Joe Yrigoyen, Ralph Volkie, Ivan Brutsche

Crew

Irving Ravetch, Mark Rydell, William Dale Jennings, William Dale Jennings, Dave Grayson ,

Dick Moder, Pat Abbott, Nate H. Edwards, Emile LaVigne, John Williams, Robert Surtees, Harriet Frank Jr., Mark Rydell, Tim Zinnemann, William Kiernan, Philip M. Jefferies, Lynn Stalmaster, Anthea Sylbert, Neil Travis, Gary Epper, Walter Scott