Advantages: Good music and scenery Disadvantages: John Wayne!
...his choice. His choice being The Cowboys which was when John Wayne was at his peak so I am told. The film sees John Wayne playing the role of William Anderson who is a 60 year old ranch owner who is trying to get his cattle to market as this will be his last year due to his age. He does not have any cowboys as they have all deserted him to go in search of gold. One of his friends suggests he goes to the town school and recruit the boys to help him ... ...he has 10 of the boys at his ranch and he is training them up to help him. During the training of the boys an older man turns up who I believe is called Nightingale and joins them. Nightingale helps with the teaching of the boys and soon finds himself as their role model. They are successful in training them and they soon set off on the 400 mile journey with the cattle to get to the market. Will they all arrive and sell the cattle and what life lessons ...
sewbizzie 06.03.2009
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After his cowhands desert him for a nearby gold rush ageing leather-tough rancher Will ... more
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piloted the skies. But The Cowboys gave him one of his juiciest roles as a leather-tough rancher who, deserted by his regular helps, hires 11 greenhorn schoolboys for a...
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