The Cowboys
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UPC: 7-321900-142700 (Blu-ray)
Region Coding: No Region Coding
Production Year: 1972
Rating: 12 (Nobody under 12 permitted to view)
Moderate Violence
Running Time: 135 min.
DVD Release: 2/25/2008
Case Type: HD Slim
Video Formats: Widescreen 2.40:1
Disc Formats: Single Sided, Single Layered
SRP: £25.99
The Cowboys gave John Wayne one of his juiciest late-career roles as a leather-tough rancher who, deserted by his regular help, hires 11 greenhorn schoolboys for a cattle drive across 400 treacherous miles. "In The Cowboys," Rex Reed wrote, "all the forces that have made him a dominant personality as well as a major screen presence seem to combine. Old Dusty Britches can act." Co-starring the equally memorable Roscoe Lee Browne, Colleen Dewhurst and Bruce Dern, The Cowboys is exciting proof.

Genres
Western
Drama


Studios
Warner Bros. Pictures
Sanford Productions
Media Companies: Warner Home Video
Features
Scene Access
Feature Trailers
Featurettes
Audio Commentary
Subtitles
Danish
English
Finnish
German
Italian
Norwegian
Portuguese
Spanish
Swedish
Audio Tracks
English Dolby Digital 5.1
German Dolby Digital Mono
Italian Dolby Digital Mono
Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
Commentary Dolby Digital 2-Channel Stereo
Cast
John Wayne as Wil Andersen
Roscoe Lee Browne as Jebediah Nightlinger
Bruce Dern as Long Hair
Colleen Dewhurst as Kate

The Cowboys
Alfred Barker, Jr. as Fats
Nicolas Beauvy as Dan
Steve Benedict as Steve
Robert Carradine as Slim Honeycutt
Norman Howell, Jr. as Weedy
Stephen Hudis as Charlie Schwartz
Sean Kelly as Stuttering Bob
A Martinez as Cimarron
Clay O'Brien as Hardy Fimps
Sam O'Brien as Jimmy Phillips
Mike Pyeatt as Homer Weems


Slim Pickens as Anse
Lonny Chapman as Homer's Father
Charles Tyner as Stonemason
Sarah Cunningham as Annie Andersen
Allyn Ann McLerie as Ellen Price
Maggie Costain as Phoebe
Matt Clark as Smiley
Jerry Gatlin as Howdy
Walter Scott as Okay
Dick Farnsworth as Henry Williams
Wallace Brooks as Red Tucker
Charise Cullin as Elizabeth
Colette Poeppel as Rosemary
Norman Howell as Jim's Father
Rita Hudis as Charlie's Mother
Margaret Kelly as Bob's Mother
Larry Randles as Ben
Larry Finley as Jake
Jim Burk as Pete

Rustlers
Fred Brookfield
Tap Canutt
Chuck Courtney
Gary Epper
Tony Epper
Kent Hays
J. R. Randall
Henry Wills
Joe Yrigoyen
Crew
Direction:
Mark Rydell: Director
Writing:
William Dale Jennings: Original Material By
Irving Ravetch: Screenwriter
Harriet Frank, Jr.: Screenwriter
William Dale Jennings: Screenwriter
Production:
Mark Rydell: Producer
Cinematography:
Robert Surtees: Director of Photography
Film Editing:
Robert Swink: Film Editor
Neil Travis: Film Editor
Music:
John Williams: Composer
Sound:
Jack Solomon: Sound
Kay Rose: Sound Editor
Richard Portman: Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Art:
Philip Jefferies: Production Designer
Emile La Vigne: Make-up Artist
Dave Grayson: Make-up Artist
Anthea Sylbert: Costume Designer