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Release Date:
13 January 1972 (USA)
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All they wanted was their chance to be men...and he gave it to them. more
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When his cattle drivers abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a...
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1 win
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(3 articles)
‘The Hole 3D’ Exclusive On-Set Interview with Bruce Dern as Creepy Carl
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Mark Rydell Remembers Killing John Wayne...And Bette Midler!
(From The Hollywood Interview. 17 June 2009, 4:45 PM, PDT)
(From MovieSet.com. 10 August 2009, 4:39 PM, PDT)
Mark Rydell Remembers Killing John Wayne...And Bette Midler!
(From The Hollywood Interview. 17 June 2009, 4:45 PM, PDT)
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"Big mouth doesn't make a big man."
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | John Wayne | ... | Wil Andersen |
 | Roscoe Lee Browne | ... | Jebediah Nightlinger |
| Bruce Dern | ... | Long Hair |
| Colleen Dewhurst | ... | Kate |
| Alfred Barker Jr. | ... | Fats - Cowboy |
| Nicolas Beauvy | ... | Dan - Cowboy |
| Steve Benedict | ... | Steve - Cowboy |
 | Robert Carradine | ... | Slim Honeycutt - Cowboy |
| Norman Howell | ... | Weedy - Cowboy (as Norman Howell Jr.) |
 | Stephen R. Hudis | ... | Charlie Schwartz - Cowboy (as Stephen Hudis) |
| Sean Kelly | ... | Stuttering Bob - Cowboy |
 | A Martinez | ... | Cimarron - Cowboy |
| Clay O'Brien | ... | Hardy Fimps - Cowboy |
| Sam O'Brien | ... | Jimmy Phillips - Cowboy |
| Mike Pyeatt | ... | Homer Weems - Cowboy |
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131 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.20 : 1 more
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Mono (35 mm prints) |
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)
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Iceland:12 |
Australia:M |
Canada:PG (video rating) |
West Germany:16 (f) |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:12 (video re-rating) (2005) (uncut) |
UK:A (original rating) (cut) |
UK:PG (video rating) (1987) (cut) |
USA:GP (original rating) |
USA:PG
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Richard Farnsworth plays a member of Asa Watts's gang, one of the first roles in which his face is actually seen on screen. Farnsworth had been a stuntman and extra since the 1930s.
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Revealing mistakes: It appears that the Double O ranch has two different brands. During roundup and later in the film, the cattle wear a brand of two distinct O's separated by about 12 inches. In the scene before they start the drive, one of the horses appears to have a brand consisting of two Os connected horizontally. This brand should be the same as the brand the cattle wear. In addition, the connected Os might be called a lazy 8.
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Jebediah Nightlinger:
You're staring at me, children. I feel your eyes on my back. Now why is that?
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Referenced in Road Movie (1974)
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Wil Andersen (John Wayne) is an aging rancher who traveled 30 miles that day and didn't find a single hand that could throw in with him…
Anse Petersen (Slim Pickens) suggests to his best friend to hire local teenagers as cowboys for his 400-mile cattle drive… So, in the morning the children came very early to put in for the job… Obviously, nobody of them has been on a cattle drive…
For a cook, Wil hires a black man, Jedediah Nightlinger (Roscoe Lee Browne), who asked to be paid $125 knowing he should be got flooded out, stampeded out, frozen out or scalped by wild Red Indians…
However, a group of rustlers led by Asa Watts (Bruce Dern), the man with the long hair, came looking for work… But they were lying … They were after Andersen's 1,500 head of cattle…
One day, Andersen knew that Watts and his gang have been paralleling him for the herd… He also knew as soon as it's dark they'll be coming in… He doesn't know how rough they'll get… But right now they think they're one man and a bunch of kids…
When Jedediah falls behind with a broken wheel on the chuck wagon, Asa makes his move for the herd, engaging Wil in vicious fight…
There is a funny scene when two of the children meet on the trail a traveling bordello madam led by Colleen Dewhurst… And a touching scene where all the boys steal a whiskey bottle and have a little party, discussing the various attributes of their cooker, and his pretty independent character…
Filled with exciting adventure, gentle amusement, visually stunning photography, but most importantly how to want to see these children growing up so quickly, "The Cowboys" stands simply as one of John Wayne's best Westerns…