Cowboy poster
Screenplay Dalton Trumbo, Edmund H. North
Director Delmer Daves

Cowboy

Tagline: THE REAL, TRUE STORY OF THE WEST!

Release Date: 1958-01-23

Duration: 92 minutes

Synopsis

Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...

Casting

  • Glenn Ford
    Tom Reese
  • Jack Lemmon
    Frank Harris
  • Richard Jaeckel
    Paul Curtis
  • Strother Martin
    Trailhand Bitten by Rattlesnake
  • Vaughn Taylor
    Mr. Fowler, Chicago Hotel Manager
  • Brian Donlevy
    Doc Bender, Trailhand
  • Dick York
    Charlie, Trailhand
  • James Westerfield
    Mike Adams
  • Frank De Kova
    Alcaide
  • King Donovan
    Joe Capper, Trailhand