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    Cowboys, The (1972)

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    John Wayne plays Will Andersen, a 60-year-old cowboy who laments the passing of the “old” west when a man’s handshake was his bond.

    Will needs to get his herd of cattle 400 miles to market but the cowboys he hired have all run off to join a gold rush. So has every man within a 20-mile radius. So who will help Will drive his cows?

    His problems are solved when he wakes one day to find a gaggle of schoolboys outside his house applying for the job.

    The ‘audition’ involves trying to stay on a horse called Crazy Alice for “a ten count”. Slim does it. Homer does it. Fats does it. B-B-Bob Wilson . . . Charlie Schwartz (a young Jewish boy) and finally Alice succumbs to a wild young lad named Cimarron who admits to being “a mistake of nature”.

    Will takes the 11 boys on the cattle drive. They run into a nutcase ex-jailbird (Bruce Dern) who shoots Will in the back and deprives the kids of their leader.

    The rest of the film is a tale of revenge.

    Mark Rydell (Cinderella Liberty) directs an unexciting production, although performances by some of the younger actors – such as A. Martinez (as Cimarron) and Robert Carradine (as Slim) – are memorable. Roscoe Lee Browne is absolutely marvellous.

    Will Andersen
    John Wayne
    Jebediah Nightlinger
    Roscoe Lee Browne
    Long Hair
    Bruce Dern
    Kate
    Colleen Dewhurst
    Fats
    Alfred Barker Jr.
    Dan
    Nicolas Beauvy
    Steve
    Steve Benedict
    Slim Honeycutt
    Robert Carradine
    Weedy
    Norman Howell
    Charlie Schwartz
    Stephen R. Hudis
    Stuttering Bob
    Sean Kelly
    Cimarron
    A Martinez
    Hardy Fimps
    Clay O’Brien
    Jimmy Phillips
    Sam O’Brien
    Homer Weems
    Mike Pyeatt
    Anse
    Slim Pickens
    Annie Andersen
    Sarah Cunningham
    Ellen Price
    Allyn Ann McLerie
    Phoebe
    Maggie Costain
    Smiley
    Matt Clark
    Howdy
    Jerry Gatlin
    Okay
    Walter Scott
    Henry Williams
    Richard Farnsworth
    Red Tucker
    Wallace Brooks
    Elizabeth
    Charise Cullin

    Director
    Mark Rydell

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