The Cowboys

IMDb link: 0068421
IMDb rating: 7.4 (17,345 votes)
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western
Director: John Wayne, Mark Rydell, Mark Rydell
Cast: Bruce Dern, Roscoe Lee Browne, Colleen Dewhurst and others

Release date: 13 Jan 1972
Release year: 1972
Runtime: 134 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: underage drinking, coming of age, evil man, good versus evil, psychopath, child uses a gun, good man, 12 year old boy, 13 year old boy, 15 year old boy

Plot:

When his cattle drovers abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drovers 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 Andersen nor the boys know that a gang of cattle rustlers is stalking them.

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