The cowboys [blu-ray] / Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Concourse Productions, Inc. ; [presented by] Warner Bros., a Kinney Company ; screenplay by Irving Ravetch & Harriet Frank, Jr. and William Dale Jennings ; produced and directed by Mark Rydell.
THIS BLU-RAY DISC WILL NOT PLAY IN STANDARD DVD PLAYERS. Title from container. John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst. Originally released as a motion picture in 1972. Special features: commentary by director Mark Rydell; new cast/director reunion featurette "The Cowboys: together again;" vintage featurette "The breaking of boys and the making of men;" theatrical trailer.
Summary:
When a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines, Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to cross the 400 treacherous miles 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 Andersen nor the boys are aware that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
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