Product Information
After being deserted by his crew, a veteran rancher is forced to hire a group of schoolboys to assist him on a cattle drive. Under the hoary cowhand's leadership, the naive young men are quickly transformed into violent killers.Product Identifiers
EAN7321900151832
eBay Product ID (ePID)30590987
Product Key Features
ActorJohn Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst
Film/TV TitleThe Cowboys
DirectorMark Rydell
LanguageEnglish
Run Time121 Mins
Aspect Ratio2.35 Wide Screen
FormatDVD
Release Year2004
FeaturesOriginal Theatrical Trailer\The Breaking of Boys and the Making of Men Featurette, Widescreen
GenreWesterns
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
CertificatePG
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Additional InformationAfter 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 cattle to their destination while contending with the wilderness and a psychotic, vengeful ex-con (Bruce Dern) who is out to get him. With an amazingly natural performance by Wayne, this stylized, action-packed Western is exquisitely filmed, emotionally sensitive, and highly entertaining. Director Mark Rydell gets solid performances out of not just Wayne (in one of his later screen roles) and Browne, but the group of youngsters accompanying them on the journey, as well as actors like Slim Pickens and Colleen Dewhurst who play smaller supporting roles. Close attention is also paid to the natural beauty of the mountains, wild mustangs, and other often overlooked standard Western fare.
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1
Format DescriptionDVD 9
Movie/TV TitleThe Cowboys