The Cowboys (1972)
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.
Western
Adventure
Drama
Action
Cast & Crew
John Wayne
Wil Andersen
Roscoe Lee Browne
Jebediah Nightlinger
Bruce Dern
Long Hair
Colleen Dewhurst
Kate
Alfred Barker Jr.
Cowboy Fats
Nicolas Beauvy
Cowboy Dan
Steve Benedict
Cowboy Steve
Robert Carradine
Cowboy Slim Honeycutt
Norman Howell
Cowboy Weedy
A Martinez
Cowboy Cimarron
Clay O'Brien
Cowboy Hardy Fimps
Slim Pickens
Anse
Lonny Chapman
Homer's Father
Charles Tyner
Stonemason
Allyn Ann McLerie
Ellen Price
Matt Clark
Smiley
Walter Scott
Okay
Richard Farnsworth
Henry Williams
Chuck Courtney
Rustler
Tony Epper
Rustler
Henry Wills
Rustler
Ralph Volkie
Ralphie (uncredited)
Mark Rydell
Director
Irving Ravetch, William Dale Jennings, Harriet Frank Jr.
Screenplay
Mark Rydell
Producer
