The Cowboys (1972)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope70 128m
Director: Mark Rydell
Cast: John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern
Synopsis:
A veteran rancher determines to make cowhands of a bunch of kids when his regular hands desert him for the goldfields, but rustlers are lying in wait to bushwhack him during the long drive.
Review:
Rydell again shows he can handle young actors without the results being foul-mouthed or mawkish, and the Duke, relic of a bygone era, here played exactly that: his rough but soft-centred persona was not to survive the new nastiness embodied by villains such as that played here by Dern. In this sense it is a pessimistic film, though it contains many homages to earlier, more traditional Westerns, notably Red River.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope70 128m
Director: Mark Rydell
Cast: John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern
Synopsis:
A veteran rancher determines to make cowhands of a bunch of kids when his regular hands desert him for the goldfields, but rustlers are lying in wait to bushwhack him during the long drive.
Review:
Rydell again shows he can handle young actors without the results being foul-mouthed or mawkish, and the Duke, relic of a bygone era, here played exactly that: his rough but soft-centred persona was not to survive the new nastiness embodied by villains such as that played here by Dern. In this sense it is a pessimistic film, though it contains many homages to earlier, more traditional Westerns, notably Red River.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope70 128m
Director: Mark Rydell
Cast: John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern
Synopsis:
A veteran rancher determines to make cowhands of a bunch of kids when his regular hands desert him for the goldfields, but rustlers are lying in wait to bushwhack him during the long drive.
Review:
Rydell again shows he can handle young actors without the results being foul-mouthed or mawkish, and the Duke, relic of a bygone era, here played exactly that: his rough but soft-centred persona was not to survive the new nastiness embodied by villains such as that played here by Dern. In this sense it is a pessimistic film, though it contains many homages to earlier, more traditional Westerns, notably Red River.