The Cowboys(1972)
movie - first aired/released 1972-01-13 - 134 min - audience 7.1
Western, Adventure, Drama, Action
Directed by Mark Rydell
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.
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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
Show all 45 cast members
- Sarah CunninghamAnnie Andersen
Allyn Ann McLerieEllen Price- Maggie CostainPhoebe
Matt ClarkSmiley
Jerry GatlinHowdy- Walter ScottOkay
Richard FarnsworthHenry Williams- Wallace BrooksRed Tucker
- Charise CullinElizabeth
- Collette PoeppelRosemary
- Rita HudisCharlie's Mother
- Margaret KellyBob's Mother
- Larry RandlesBen
- Larry FinleyJake
- Jim BurkPete
- Norman Howell Sr.Jim's Father
- Fred BrookfieldRustler
- Tap CanuttRustler
Chuck CourtneyRustler
Gary EpperRustler
Tony EpperRustler- Kent HaysRustler
- J.R. RandallRustler
Henry WillsRustler
Joe YrigoyenRustler
Ralph VolkieRalphie (uncredited)- Ivan BrutscheTowns Person (uncredited)
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