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.
$6,000,000
$7,500,000
January 13, 1972
Sanford Productions (III), Warner Bros. Pictures
45 people
John Wayne
Wil Andersen
Acting
Roscoe Lee Browne
Jebediah Nightlinger
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Bruce Dern
Long Hair
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Colleen Dewhurst
Kate
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Alfred Barker Jr.
Cowboy Fats
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Nicolas Beauvy
Cowboy Dan
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Steve Benedict
Cowboy Steve
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Robert Carradine
Cowboy Slim Honeycutt
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Norman Howell
Cowboy Weedy
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Stephen R. Hudis
Cowboy Charlie Schwartz
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Sean Kelly
Cowboy Stuttering Bob
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A Martinez
Cowboy Cimarron
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