In some ways is a companion movie to posterior ¨Cahill, United States Marshal¨ also involved John with kiddies. Wayne unmistakeably a legendary figure of the West and by that time he would go playing good Westerns, as he triumphantly survived his own era with titles as ¨True grit¨ in which he won an Academy Award ,¨Big Jake¨, ¨Train robbers¨, ¨Rooster Cogburn¨, his last film ¨The Shootist¨, and ,of course, this ¨The cowboys ¨. Wayne's image still remained impervious during the seventies surviving through an overlong career. Furthermore, an anti-racism subtext on Roscoe Lee Browne role was written into the script in response to ongoing criticism of John Wayne, it makes this one of Wayne's better Westerns. And the results make extremely amusing and thundering entertainment. Besides, it contains good feeling as friendship, faithfulness, companionship, and enjoyable father-adopted sons relationship. Top-notch Western packs clever plot, thrills, family feeling, slightly stylized action, shoot'em up, and turns out to be pretty entertaining in spite of the over-sentimentality inherent in this project produced/directed by Mark Rydell.
Nice and agreeable western with a great cast and a sensational John Wayne against his nemesis magnificently played by Bruce Dern in one of his meatiest roles as the villain. Nightlinger as father figures, as they wet-nursing an entire crew of sub-teenagers on a cattle drive, as the boys learn to become men through hard work, discipline and the usual Western battles with robbers. But they are pursued and finally attacked by a group of rustlers led by Long Hair (Bruce Dern). As they are recruited to work for the cattle rancher, all they wanted was their chance to be men and he gave it to them. As the pre-teenaged boys in New Mexico Territory fight off grownup cattle rustlers under the tutelage of rancher Wil (John Wayne who strides the flick like a dinosaur) and his helper Jebediah Nightlinger (Roscoe Lee Browne). Martínez, Robert Carradine film debut, among others) whose ages ranging from 9 to 17 to help him drive his cattle 400 miles to market. Wayne stars an upright cattle rancher, Wil Andersen when his cattle drivers abandon him for the gold fields, he is forced to hire 11 school boys (Sean Kelly, Clay O'Brien, A. Reviewed by ma-cortes 7 / 10 Above average, enjoyable western with a great cast and awesome John Wayne as a tough cattle rancher
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