The Cowboys (Blu-ray)

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Format:  Blu-ray
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 14 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: June 5, 2007
  • Originally Released: 1972
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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Fresh75%

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 9,639
[T]he real subject here often seems to be Wayne's persona....Rydell is able to hint at a vulnerability not found in many of the star's other performances.
Sight and Sound
Dec 1, 2004
Rating: 2.5/4 -- The scenes along the way of the kids learning to be cowboys are good, warm fun, and it's a shame they had to go for the unlikely, violent, and totally contrived last thirty minutes. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Oct 24, 2004
Rating: 3.5/4 -- A forgotten masterpiece. Full Review
Film Freak Central
Jun 28, 2007
Rating: 5/10 -- Even with a closing that breaks with tradition, The Cowboys is not as eventful as one would have hoped for in a John Wayne movie. Full Review
Movie Metropolis
May 24, 2007
Rating: B- -- A coming-of-age film of the toughest sort. Far from Wayne's best, but nevertheless a movie whose ending ignites a heated discussion. Full Review
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Aug 1, 2007
Rating: C+ -- An engaging late John Wayne Western, though the macho philosophy of the need to kill might turn off the more liberal viewer. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Sep 16, 2005
Rating: 4/5 -- Classic action-packed Western has lots of cursing, violence Full Review
Common Sense Media
Jan 3, 2017

Product Description:

After his cowhands desert him for a nearby gold rush, aging, leather-tough rancher Will Anderson (John Wayne) resorts to hiring 11 schoolboys to help him on a 400-mile cattle run. Setting off with the boys and an eloquent but equally tough black cook (Roscoe Lee Browne), Anderson must get his cattle to their destination while contending with the wilderness and a psychotic, vengeful ex-con (Bruce Dern) who is out to get him. With an amazingly natural performance by Wayne, this stylized, action-packed Western is exquisitely filmed, emotionally sensitive, and highly entertaining. Director Mark Rydell gets solid performances out of not just Wayne (in one of his later screen roles) and Browne, but the group of youngsters accompanying them on the journey, as well as actors like Slim Pickens and Colleen Dewhurst who play smaller supporting roles. Close attention is also paid to the natural beauty of the mountains, wild mustangs, and other often overlooked standard Western fare.

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  • Sales Rank: 115,532
  • UPC: 085391142706
  • Shipping Weight: 0.15/lbs (approx)
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