Film · Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
The Cowboys (1972)
All they wanted was their chance to be men... and he gave it to them.
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.
- Director
- Mark Rydell
- Writers
- Irving Ravetch, William Dale Jennings, Harriet Frank Jr.
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- January 13, 1972
Cast
John WayneWil Andersen
Roscoe Lee BrowneJebediah Nightlinger
Bruce DernLong Hair
Colleen DewhurstKate
Alfred Barker Jr.Cowboy Fats
Nicolas BeauvyCowboy Dan
Steve BenedictCowboy Steve
Robert CarradineCowboy Slim Honeycutt
Norman HowellCowboy Weedy
Stephen R. HudisCowboy Charlie Schwartz- Sean KellyCowboy Stuttering Bob
A MartinezCowboy Cimarron
Clay O'BrienCowboy Hardy Fimps- Sam O'BrienCowboy Jimmy Phillips
- Mike PyeattCowboy Homer Weems
Slim PickensAnse
Lonny ChapmanHomer's Father
Charles TynerStonemason- Sarah CunninghamAnnie Andersen
Allyn Ann McLerieEllen Price
