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Cowboy (1958)

Glenn Ford , Jack Lemmon , Delmer Daves  |  NR |  DVD
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi, Brian Donlevy, Dick York
  • Directors: Delmer Daves
  • Writers: Dalton Trumbo, Edmund H. North, Frank Harris
  • Producers: Julian Blaustein
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Subtitled
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: NR (Not Rated)
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: May 14, 2002
  • Run Time: 92 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000063UQO
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,310 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Cowboy" on IMDb

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This sturdy Delmer Daves picture--his third with Glenn Ford, following Jubal and 3:10 to Yuma--is one of the most offbeat Westerns ever. And it must be the most writerly, with Frank Harris's memoirs as the source and a picaresque screenplay by Edmund H. North and Dalton Trumbo (a blacklistee, credited only posthumously). There's a pileup of oddities and complications at the outset, with Chicago hotel clerk Harris (Jack Lemmon) already in mid-romance with a daughter of the Mexican aristocracy (Anna Kashfi--Mrs. Marlon Brando at the time), and Texas cattleman Tom Reese (Ford) storming in to commandeer an entire floor of the hotel for him and his drovers so they can party till, well, the cows come home. Partying is curtailed when Reese loses big at cards; Harris bails him out with his savings, and Reese finds he's taken on not only an unwanted partner but a tenderfoot besides. Soon everyone is headed south.

Cowboy merits its bedrock title. This is a rare Western in which the job of breaking horses, trail herding, etc. figures as a dynamic aspect of the storytelling. The film also has a blunt and original way of looking at death, not as a genre convention but as something abrupt, ungainly, and often absurd, in both senses of the word. (This applies equally to men and cattle, by the way.) The camerawork is trim, angular, and somehow precarious, and the jagged editing hustles the very eventful proceedings to a close in barely an hour and a half. Saddle up. --Richard T. Jameson

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Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon. A Chicago hotel clerk who dreams of becoming a cowboy gets his chance when a cattle rancher staying at the hotel offers him a job. 1958/color/92 min/NR/fullscreen.

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Glenn Ford is good & Jack Lemmon is well-cast as the tenderfoot. Harry Brewer  |  7 reviewers made a similar statement
Wonderful, sit back and enjoy! Denn  |  2 reviewers made a similar statement
The only thing that kept me from giving it 5-stars is..the dvd...should have been in widescreen. movie man JACK  |  1 reviewer made a similar statement
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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars How could they release this in Pan & Scan???? June 25, 2002
By A Customer
Format:DVD
This is a wonderful look at the "real" West for a change; warts and all. BUT, and it is a big BUT, it needs to be seen as originally filmed not cut for television. Neverthless I'll keep this copy and then buy it again when it is released in Widescreen. Why do those who support the rights of directors and complain when someone "messes" with "their" product think nothing of chopping a film to fit a televion screen.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Really the West October 12, 2004
Format:DVD
There are some movies that force you to contemplate issues swimming in the deep end of the pool. The dvd for COWBOY contains a few trailers, one for COWBOY itself. In it star Jack Lemmon proudly boasts that COWBOY is "really the best, really the west." Amen, brother. The cattle drive this movie takes you on is unlike most others, an adult western as they measured such things in the late `50s.

Lemmon plays tinhorn Frank Norris, a hotel clerk who has a romantic notion about the cowboy life, and Glenn Ford plays Tom Reese, cattle boss and ramrod teflon-coated against the romance of the open range, who reluctantly takes Lemmon on.

There's a dispensable romantic subplot to this one, included only to provide Lemmon with a breakable romantic notion and a reason to want to go south (his forbidden love lives with a protective father in Mexico.) COWBOY is about what happens on the trail, and not much of it is good. Ford's trail gang contains an assortment of deviants and sociopaths enough to make a barbarian blush. Among the wranglers is a character who ate the "left haunch" of a Comanche warrior and is ribbed unmercifully for it. A prank turns fatal and rather than meditate on the meaning of life, the instigator attempts to steal the victim's boots. When an amorous wrangler precipitates a brutal fight with a jealous boyfriend and his gang the wrangler's pardners vamoose before the knives are drawn. COWBOY has a strong anti-romantic message; life on the trail is a dehumanizing experience. Lemmon is at first horrified and then embittered, his anger mainly directed at boss Ford for allowing it. An interesting and nice feature of this smart film is watching the Lemmon and Ford characters evolve along the drive. Lemmon turns hard and mean, while Ford softens up a bit.

The intelligent script is the work of Edmund North and an uncredited Dalton Trumbo. It's based on Frank Harris's My Reminiscences As a Cowboy (1930), one of many real-life cowboy stories published in the first few decades of the twentieth century. Texan historian and folklorist J. Frank Dobie called Harris's book "a blatant farrago of lies". Dobie's judgment is what led me to the deep end. COWBOY was obviously marketed as an adult "really" real alternative to the sugar-coated pap westerns of the 50s. I'm not quite sure what a "blatant farrago" is, but I assume Dobie was in a high lather when he wrote that. In any event, one side says realistic and the other blatant lies. I guess I'd call it myth-busting, probably a lot more shocking in 1958 than it is today. We've been bombarded with a series of myth-busting real west Western in the last fifty years.

On the first pass it seems odd to cast Lemmon and Ford in a western. They're more urban characters, and the 50s were saturated with competent Western actors. My guess it was a conscious decision by director Delmer Daves (who directed Ford in the classic 3:10 TO YUMA the previous year) to go against the grain some.

Warning - those offended by scenes of animal cruelty should be aware that in one scene chickens are buried up to their necks and cowboys compete to pull them out while riding galloping horses. Those offended by chintzy props shouldn't play too close attention to the scene with the fierce bull and his a-little-too-obviously red rubber horns.
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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Okay Movie, Poor DVD January 31, 2005
By RW
Format:DVD
This is a decent DVD, if you don't mind that 27.9 percent of the original theatrical image has been removed for the DVD exhibition, so that the DVD image fills your entire 4:3 television screen (theatrical aspect ratio - 1.85:1; DVD aspect ratio - 4:3). If you're okay with that, enjoy!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars Jack Lemmon a cowboy?????????????
Glenn Ford plays a cattleman who drives his cows from one place to the next sells them off and starts again. He looses all his money in a card game, so what to do??? Read more
Published 9 hours ago by John Muuss
5.0 out of 5 stars THE show to watch
The two stars Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon are outstanding. Too many well known character actors to mention. Wonderful, sit back and enjoy!
Published 2 months ago by Denn
5.0 out of 5 stars Reminds me of another character...
...who didn't always get it right, but his expertise and leadership were virtually undeniable. Watching Glenn Ford as a rough and tough larger than life cattle drover was like... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Sharon L Ferguson
4.0 out of 5 stars Westerns the Way They Used to Make Them
While I was watching this large-scale technicolor western from 1958, I started thinking of all the wonderful westerns we had from this period and do not have anymore. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Gary P. Cohen
4.0 out of 5 stars Cowboy and under rated movie
I saw this movie when it first came out and I must admit it made quit an impression on me as a kid of about 10 years old. Read more
Published 18 months ago by D. Lockin
4.0 out of 5 stars From Good to Bad to Cowboy!
I purchased this DVD as I recently started getting into Cowboy movies and I have to say this one really did catch my attention. Read more
Published 19 months ago by NHMovieLover
5.0 out of 5 stars "Cowboy (1958) ... Glenn Ford & Jack Lemmon ... Delmer Daves...
Columbia Pictures presents "COWBOY" (1958 92 min/Color) -- Starring: Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi, Brian Donlevy, Dick York & Richard Jaeckel

Directed by Delmer... Read more
Published 19 months ago by J. Lovins
4.0 out of 5 stars coming of age in the saddle
well made and enjoyable. I have seen this several times and enjoyed it more each time. A diferent twist on "Red River".
Published on August 22, 2008 by George M. Dysinger
2.0 out of 5 stars cowboy
if you want this movie in widescreen watch for it on turner classic
movies and copy it...they show it in widescreen often... Read more
Published on August 2, 2008 by Carl Robbins
3.0 out of 5 stars kinda disappointed
This edition of the movie includes a special trailer made with Jack Lemmon. In the trailer Mr. Lemmon describes the film as being in glorious technicolor and broad as the movie... Read more
Published on May 28, 2008 by J. Jarocki
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It's pathetic that movie companies continue to insult us with edited versions of films. I have also seen the widescreen version of Cowboy and will patiently wait until this DVD is released as it should be. We true movie lovers and collectors need to stick together and let these companies know we... Read more
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