The Cowboys

Resource Information

The work The Cowboys represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nesmith Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The Cowboys

Statement of responsibility

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

Contributor

• Kinney Company (Firm)
• Warner Bros. Entertainment
• Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Browne, Roscoe Lee
• Dern, Bruce
• Dewhurst, Colleen
• Frank, Harriet., Jr
• Jennings, William Dale
• Ravetch, Irving
• Rydell, Mark, 1934-
• Wayne, John, 1907-1979
• Williams, John, 1932-
• Concourse Productions, Inc

Subject

• Cattle drives -- West (U.S.) -- Drama
• Cattle stealing -- West (U.S.) -- Drama
• Crime -- Feature
• DVD-Video discs
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Herders -- Training of -- West (U.S.) -- Drama
• Ranchers -- West (U.S.) -- Drama
• West (U.S.) -- Drama
• Western -- Feature
• Western films
• Western films

Genre

• DVD-Video discs
• Drama
• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Western
• Western films
• Crime

Language

• eng
• eng
• fre
• eng
• eng

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

Member of

• John Wayne collection

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Music, John Williams

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG

Language note

English dialogue, English and French subtitles; closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1995.9.W4

LC item number

C693697 2007

PerformerNote

John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst

Runtime

131

Series statement

• The John Wayne collection
• John Wayne collection

Target audience

general

Technique

live action