The cowboys [videorecording] / Warner Bros. and Sanford Productions Inc. ; produced and directed by Mark Rydell ; screenplay by Irving Ravetch & Harriet Frank, Jr. and William Dale Jennings.
John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst, Slim Pickens, Lonny Chapman, Charles Tyner. DVD release of the 1972 motion picture. Based on the novel by William Dale Jennings. Special features: Cast & crew information; The Wordsmiths (Irving Ravetch & Harriet Frank); Boys-to-Men (A. Martinez, Robert Carradine); Western roundup (westerns, the first cowboys, western legends); "The cowboys" original featurette; theatrical trailers.
Summary:
A tough rancher, deserted by his regular help, hires 11 schoolboys for a 400 mile cattle drive.
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