Synopsis
The Cowboys (1972) is a John Wayne western you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Mark Rydell from William Dale Jennings' novel. Rancher Wil Andersen loses his entire crew to the gold fields just before a long cattle drive. With no hands left and the deadline closing in, he drafts a group of boys aged eleven to fifteen and turns them into cowboys on the job.
Bruce Dern plays Asa Watts, the outlaw shadowing the drive, waiting for the right moment to take the herd. Robert Carradine made his screen debut here alongside veterans Slim Pickens and Colleen Dewhurst. Andersen trains the boys without softening the realities of the trail — or the danger that follows them.
Wayne breaks from his usual indestructible persona here in ways that still register as surprising, which is what separates The Cowboys from routine oater territory. Stream The Cowboys online on iFILM.
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