The Cowboys
“All they wanted was their chance to be men... and he gave it to them.”
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.
Genres
Western, Adventure, Drama, Action
Studio
Sanford Productions (III)
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Cowboys performed
Budget
$6.0M
Worldwide Gross
$7.5M
Gross Profit
$1.5M
Return
1.3× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$1M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~50/50, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Western) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Wil Andersen
John Wayne
Wil Andersen
Jebediah Nightlinger
Roscoe Lee Browne
Jebediah Nightlinger
Long Hair
Bruce Dern
Long Hair
Kate
Colleen Dewhurst
Kate
Cowboy Fats
Alfred Barker Jr.
Cowboy Fats
Cowboy Dan
Nicolas Beauvy
Cowboy Dan
Cowboy Steve
Steve Benedict
Cowboy Steve
Cowboy Slim Honeycutt
Robert Carradine
Cowboy Slim Honeycutt
Cowboy Weedy
Norman Howell
Cowboy Weedy
Cowboy Charlie Schwartz
Stephen R. Hudis
Cowboy Charlie Schwartz
Cowboy Stuttering Bob
Sean Kelly
Cowboy Stuttering Bob
Cowboy Cimarron
A Martinez
Cowboy Cimarron
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