The Cowboys

• 7.112 Western
• 1972-01-13
• 131 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

John Wayne (Wil Andersen) Roscoe Lee Browne (Jebediah Nightlinger) Bruce Dern (Long Hair) Colleen Dewhurst (Kate) Alfred Barker Jr. (Cowboy Fats) Nicolas Beauvy (Cowboy Dan) Steve Benedict (Cowboy Steve) Robert Carradine (Cowboy Slim Honeycutt) Norman Howell (Cowboy Weedy) Stephen R. Hudis (Cowboy Charlie Schwartz)

Director:

Mark Rydell

Writer:

Irving Ravetch William Dale Jennings Harriet Frank Jr.