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Synopsis: Glenn Ford co-stars as a tough, no-nonsense trail boss and Jack Lemmon as a tenderfoot Chicago hotel clerk whose yearning for the Old West outweighs his own physical limitations. As a result of Lemmon's participation in a 3,000 mile cattle drive, he discovers that the cowboy life is not as he'd imagined.
Starring: Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon
Supporting actors: Anna Kashfi, Brian Donlevy, Dick York, Víctor Manuel Mendoza, Richard Jaeckel, King Donovan, Vaughn Taylor, Donald Randolph, James Westerfield, Eugene Iglesias, Frank DeKova, Russ Bender, John L. Cason, Amapola Del Vando, Robert 'Buzz' Henry, William Leslie, Strother Martin, David McMahon, Rafael Mendez, Bek Nelson
Directed by: Delmer Daves
Genre: Western
Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes
Release year: 1958
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
ASIN: B001HM22Y2
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Okay Movie, Poor DVD, January 31, 2005
This review is from: Cowboy (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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3.0 out of 5 stars How could they release this in Pan & Scan????, June 25, 2002
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars Really the West, October 12, 2004
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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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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 15 months ago 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 15 months ago 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
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4.0 out of 5 stars The heart of the classic western
The tender-foot who proves he can learn his lessons all too well. It is a classic western story with that quintessential cowboy legend in Glenn Ford juxtaposed against the... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Ride 'em "Cowboy"!
One of the better westerns of the period with the always excellent Glenn Ford and a young and talented Jack Lemmon. Well photographed and tightly edited. Read more
Published on November 9, 2007 by Bill Ford Interiors, Inc.

4.0 out of 5 stars Cowboy
Based on a true story written by Frank Harris, the Jack Lemmon role, about his experiences on a cattle drive. Glenn Ford is good & Jack Lemmon is well-cast as the tenderfoot. Read more
Published on October 16, 2007 by Harry Brewer

4.0 out of 5 stars LEMMON AND FORD
Two scenes of anthology; the rattlesnake thrown in the middle of the cowboys and Glenn Ford against an aggressive bull. Read more
Published on October 6, 2007 by wdanthemanw

5.0 out of 5 stars Kiddy Up
If you are looking for a good western to sink your teeth into, this one is it. Great acting from a young Jack Lemmon and Glen Ford. Wonderful scenery and good story plot. Read more
Published on June 7, 2007 by M. Barb

5.0 out of 5 stars Glenn Ford 'Cowboy'
I bought this DVD in a fit of nostalgia, having seen it many years ago.
I like Glenn Ford's understated acting, and, of course, Jack Lemon was an excellent foil. Read more
Published on November 10, 2006 by Reginald C. Clifford

5.0 out of 5 stars My review of this movie
I am a western movie fan and I really like Glenn Ford,s acting.
Published on February 24, 2006 by Mary M. Marshall

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