Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The cowboys / WB, a Kinney Company, presents ; a Mark Rydell film, a Sanford production ; screenplay by Irving Ravetch & Harriet Frank, Jr. and William Dale Jennings ; produced and directed by Mark Rydell.

Edition:

Deluxe ed.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2007]

Description:

1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

When a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines, he (Wayne) is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to cross the 400 treacherous miles to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under his tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys are aware that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG.

Series:

The John Wayne collection

John Wayne collection.

Subjects:

Ranchers -- West (U.S.) -- Drama.

Cattle drives -- West (U.S.) -- Drama.

Cattle stealing -- West (U.S.) -- Drama.

Herders -- Training of -- West (U.S.) -- Drama.

West (U.S.) -- Drama.

Genre:

Western films.

Film adaptations.

Action and adventure films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Ravetch, Irving, screenwriter.

Frank, Harriet, screenwriter. Jr.

Jennings, William Dale, screenwriter.

Rydell, Mark, 1934- director, producer.

Wayne, John, 1907-1979, actor.

Browne, Roscoe Lee, actor.

Dern, Bruce, actor.

Dewhurst, Colleen, actor.

Williams, John, 1932- composer.

Warner Bros. Entertainment.

Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )

Kinney Company (Firm)

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Notes:

Based on the novel by William Dale Jennings.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1972.

Special features: Collectible behind-the-scenes photo set; commentary by director Mark Rydell; new cast/director reunion featurette "The Cowboys: together again;" vintage featurette "The breaking of boys and the making of men;" theatrical trailer.

Music, John Williams ; director of photography, Robert Surtees ; production designer, Philip Jefferies ; costume designer, Anthea Sylbert ; film editor, Neil Travis.

John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (letterbox, enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, dual-layer.

English dialogue, English and French subtitles; closed-captioned.

ISBN:

1419850474

9781419850479

1419879235

9781419879234

079073835X

9780790738352

1419850474

9781419850479

Publisher Number:

114535

3000021044

Other Number:

123422945

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

798281

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Cowboys