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The Cowboys(Movie, 1972)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 11min | Genres: Western, Adventure, Drama, Action
The CowboysRating: 3.6/5 (with 9595 votes)
The Cowboys is a 1972 American Western film starring John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Bruce Dern, and featuring Colleen Dewhurst and Slim Pickens. It was the feature film debut of Robert Carradine. Based on the 1971 novel of the same name by William Dale Jennings, the screenplay was written by Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, Jr., and Jennings, and the film was directed by Mark Rydell. ()
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"The Cowboys" is currently available on 2 providers. The Cowboys can be rented on Amazon Instant Video and Apple / iTunes Store (SD/HD/4K) or purchased on Amazon Instant Video and Apple / iTunes Store (as a download from the website or as a Blu-ray Disc/DVD).

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Duration: 2h 8min
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About The Cowboys

When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys 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 thieves is stalking them.

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Trailer for The Cowboys + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

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Trailer 1 (Trailer) | Trailers From Hell (Featurette)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Montana
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 23 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 01/27/1972 (World premiere: 01/13/1972)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Les Cowboys"
"I cowboys (1972)"
Budget: 6,000,000 USD
Revenue: 7,500,000 USD (= 125%)

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:10829, Added: 02/18/2018, Last updated: 03/13/2024