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Cowboy [DVD] [1958] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

DVD ~ Glenn Ford
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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, Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Columbia TriStar
  • DVD Release Date: 14 May 2002
  • Run Time: 92 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000063UQO
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 161,440 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Cowboy is both a sturdy Delmer Daves picture--his third with Glenn Ford, following Jubal and 3:10 to Yuma--and also one of the most offbeat Westerns ever. It must be the most true to form too, 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, and so on, 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, Amazon.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars "Cowboy", 25 Mar 2009
By Ms. H. C. Swindells "film buff" (Oxford, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cowboy [DVD] [1958] (DVD)
I really enjoyed this film. It has drama, humour and romance and I thought the stars of the film- Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon- were excellent.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Jack Lemmon becomes a Cowboy!, 3 Mar 2009
By Bob Salter "Sandman" (Wiltshire, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cowboy [DVD] [1958] (DVD)
"Cowboy"(58) is another very good Delmer Daves Western. It is certainly unusual in having Jack Lemmon as one of the main leads. I cannot recall him making another film in that genre and this film certainly involves some serious acting from him. The film is based on the memoirs of the cowboy Frank Harris. The screenplay was part written by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo who was only credited posthumously. Glenn Ford a Daves stalwart plays the part of Tom Reese a cattle ramrod.

The story commences in a Chicago hotel where Ford and his men are about to start a long cattle drive down south. Harris a hotel clerk played by Lemmon has been romancing the daughter of a Mexican aristocrat. When she leaves he is keen to see her again. He has the opportunity when Reese loses all his money gambling and needs to borrow from Harris, but on condition he allow him to come on the drive down south towards old Mexico. Reese although not taken with the idea of having a tenderfoot along, reluctantly agrees. The drive is an eye opener for Harris and a baptism of fire. He slowly and painfully becomes a useful trail hand but along the way he becomes hard and cynical. Happily this situation changes by the end.

Overall this is a very enjoyable film. It is a type of coming of age experience. Ford is rock steady and reliable as always and Lemmon throws in a strong performance, although I felt he overdid the cynicism on occasions. Brian Donlevy provides good support as an experienced trail hand. It is a good honest look at the cowboy life which was far from the romantic notion some people may have. Tom Gries's "Will Penny"(67) developed the theme further. Although perhaps not quite as good as Daves other Westerns "3:10 to Yuma"(57) and the excellent "The Last Wagon"(56), it is still a very good film. Recommended viewing.
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