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Bookmark this pageCowboy (1958)
Director: Delmer Daves
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Likeable attempt to show what life was really like in the old West (ironically based on reminiscences by the notoriously mendacious Frank Harris), with Lemmon as the hotel clerk who joins a 2,000 mile cattle drive from Chicago to the Rio Grande in the 1870s. The episodic narrative, taking in an Indian attack, a Mexican fiesta and a cattle stampede, is more romantic than realistic; but it remains consistently atmospheric and enjoyable, with the striking use of landscape characteristic of Daves.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Delmer Daves
Producer: Julian Blaustein
Cast: Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi, Brian Donlevy, Dick York, Richard Jaeckel full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 92 mins
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