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The Cowboys

Release Date:January 13, 1972

Running Time:134 min

Genres:Adventure, Drama, Action, Western

Director

Cast

John Wayne Roscoe Lee Browne Bruce Dern Colleen Dewhurst Alfred Barker Jr.Nicolas Beauvy Steve Benedict Robert Carradine Norman Howell Stephen R. Hudis Sean Kelly A Martinez

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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 he nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.

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