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Cowboy
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Synopsis
The once-scandalous autobiography of Frank Harris was the source of the fascinating "adult" western Cowboy. Jack Lemmon plays Harris, who when first the audience meets him is a citified desk clerk in a frontier hotel. Harboring romantic notions of the West, Harris prevails upon hard-living, hard-drinking trail boss Tom Reece Glenn Ford to take him along on Reece's next cattle drive. In the months that follow, Harris' idealized notions of the West are cruelly dispelled, though he eventually becomes accustomed to the rough-and-tumble life on the trail and to the curious cameradie between the drovers. The film's most talked-about scene finds a group of cowboys planting a rattlesnake in one of their comrade's blankets as a joke; their regretful but oddly detached reaction when the bitten man dies speaks volumes about the Real West. Also memorable is the performance of Brian Donlevy as Doc Bender, an ageing gunfighter who can't stand the notion of becoming an anachronism. One of the more unorthodox westerns of the 1950s, Cowboy is also one of the best. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Frank de Kova Alcalde
Brian Donlevy Doc Bender
Glenn Ford Tom Reece
Buzz Henry Slim Barrett
Eugene Iglesias Manuel Arriega
Richard Jaeckel Paul Curtis
Anna Kashfi Maria Vidal
William Leslie Tucker
Victor Manuel Mendoza Mendoza
Bek Nelson Charlie's Girl
Don Randolph Senor Vidal
Vaughan Taylor Mr. Fowler
James Westerfield Mike Adams
Guy Wilkerson Peggy
Dick York Charlie
King Donovan Joe Capper
Jack Lemmon Frank Harris
Amapola Del Vando Aunt

Production Crew

Cary O'Dell Art Director
Frank Harris Book Author
Charles Lawton Cinematographer
George Duning Composer (Music Score)
Delmer Daves Director
Al Clark Editor
William Lyon Editor
Arthur Morton Musical Direction/Supervision
Julian Blaustein Producer
Dalton Trumbo Screenwriter
Edmund H. North Screenwriter
James Crowe Set Designer
William Kiernan Set Designer
Year: 1958
Runtime: 92
Country: USA
MPAA Rating: NR
Category: Feature


Produced by
Columbia Pictures
Phoenix Productions