An idealistic tenderfoot Chicago hotel clerk is taken on a cattle-drive to Mexico by famous trail boss Tom Reece but discovers that cowboy life isn't what he expected.
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Glenn Ford | ... | Tom Reese | |
| Jack Lemmon | ... | Frank Harris | |
| Anna Kashfi | ... | Maria Vidal / Arriega | |
| Brian Donlevy | ... | Doc Bender - Trail Hand | |
| Dick York | ... | Charlie - Trail Hand | |
| Víctor Manuel Mendoza | ... | Paco Mendoza - Ramrod | |
| Richard Jaeckel | ... | Paul Curtis | |
| King Donovan | ... | Joe Capper - Trail Hand | |
| Vaughn Taylor | ... | Mr. Fowler - Chicago Hotel Manager | |
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Donald Randolph | ... | Senor Vidal - Maria's Father |
| James Westerfield | ... | Mike Adams | |
| Eugene Iglesias | ... | Don Manuel Arriega | |
| Frank DeKova | ... | Alcaide (as Frank de Kova) | |
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Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of making his fortune in the cattle business. He gets his chance when, the father of the Mexican woman he loves breaks off their relationship and Frank bankrolls cattleman Tom Reece to be able to join him on a cattle buying trip to Mexico. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out the reality of life on the trail as a cowboy is not what he expected. Written by Jorge Mourinha <rjmourinha@mail.telepac.pt>
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cattle baron | mexico | cattle ranch | native american attack | based on book |Taglines:
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23 March 1958 (Japan) See more »Also Known As:
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Charlie, Trailhand: Oh, yeah. Women like the smell of a horse on a man. That makes them giggle.
Wagon Driver: Well, the smell of a horse on me never did me no good. Just makes them get up and move away.
Charlie, Trailhand: Maybe you're associating with the wrong horses.
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Music by George N. Allen
Frequently referenced in George Duning's musical score
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The script is based on the memoirs of Frank Harris, chronicling his first trail drive as a greenhorn from Chicago. See more »Goofs
When Tom and Frank strike their deal in the hotel, Tom says "Get some sleep. We leave first thing in the morning." When Tom and the other cowboys arrive the next morning in the wagon, the shadows on the ground are very short, being almost non-existent. This indicates the sun is almost directly overhead and that it is close to noon, and nowhere near early morning. See more »Quotes
Wagon Driver: It beats me how women can go for you cowboys.Charlie, Trailhand: Oh, yeah. Women like the smell of a horse on a man. That makes them giggle.
Wagon Driver: Well, the smell of a horse on me never did me no good. Just makes them get up and move away.
Charlie, Trailhand: Maybe you're associating with the wrong horses.
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Bury Me Not on the Lone PrairieMusic by George N. Allen
Frequently referenced in George Duning's musical score
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As one of the other reviewers pointed out, this whole film is based on a few lines of an autobiography where the protagonist Frank Harris joins a group of cattle RUSTLERS for a spell. So in fact that as tough as Glenn Ford and his crew are, at least they're on the right side of the law.
Also Frank Harris is probably best known for the first definitive life of Oscar Wilde. And Harris like Wilde was born in Ireland. Might have been nice if Jack Lemmon had played him with a brogue.
Another reviewer pointed out that Jack Lemmon did not fit into the western film. True enough, but in fact this is the story of a tenderfoot who goes on a cattle drive and has quite the adventure.
Still and all Cowboy is a pretty good realistic western about life on a cattle drive. These drovers aren't any kind of heroic, but they do the job that has to be done. Jack Lemmon's ideas about cowboys are taken from the dime novels of the period. He gets rid of his romantic notions, but fast.
Among the supporting cast Brian Donlevy comes off best as the world weary former town marshal who joins the drive to get away from his job and meets a tragic end.
Cowboy came out in 1958 which was the height of Glenn Ford's career. Ford did some of the best westerns of the 1950s and Cowboy ranks right up there.