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Bruce Dern said despite their big age difference, & John Wayne only having one lung, he'd lost the other to cancer, John Wayne roughed him up pretty good in that fight. It was so realistic for Dern; it was difficult for him to think of it as fake. Both Dern & Wayne were college athletes. John Wayne was a gridiron football player, & Bruce Dern ran track.
I'm 59 years old. I remember my Dad showing me and my brother this movie when I was about those boys' age. We loved it and never forgot it. I've showed it to my boys, too. I just lost my Dad, so it really hit home. Thanks, Dawn.
I vaguely remember reading the book this was based on when I was a kid. Pretty sure the wandering "brothel" didn't just ride off with out scoring some work, if I recall correctly, heh.
I heard the smallest boy in the group grew up to be an award winning rodeo rider, and John Wayne said the boy was the most natural cowboy he had ever seen.....👍
Actually he was already one when this was filmed. Half the boys in the film were city kids who could act the other half were country boys who where junior rodeo stars.
@@LilHoss that's his younger son in the movie Cahill US Marshall. One of the other boys is one of the carradines and went on to be the father in Lizzie McGuire
@@98nh3609 you mean the guy we're talking about was his younger son in the movie The Cowboys? You're not talking about Ethan Wayne? Ethan Wayne played his grandson in Big Jake.
You should do Clint Eastwood's "2 Mules for Sister Sara", a good Western for you. Another Western era movie you should watch is "Hidalgo", A old time long distance race horse movie, he's won pretty well every race in Old West, and then goes over to Arabia for a long Distance desert race. This one stars Viggo Mortensen, who also played Aragorn in Lord of the Rings.
Both very good movies. I'd also recommend The Big Country, with Gregory Peck. It's got everything you're looking for, Dawn-Marie: an upstanding hero, grand adventure, romance, and an extremely rousing musical score, one of the greatest ever composed. I don't think anyone else on UA-cam has done a reaction to it yet, so it's high time.
@@jadejewel6586 I don't really like the 1999 remake of _The Haunting,_ but I recommend the 1963 version and Shirley Jackson's book. The miniseries of _The Haunting of Hill House_ is also good but _very_ loosely inspired by the book. Dawn did do the original version of _The Haunting,_ though, and didn't like it, so maybe she would prefer that. _The House on Haunted Hill_ is fun (I've only seen the Vincent Price version) and _The Legend of Hell House_ is good (Roddy McDowall and Pamela Franklin -- Franklin is also in _The Innocents,_ based on _The Turn of the Screw,_ which also inspired _The Haunting of Bly Manor)._
Two of the kids went on to longer movie careers, Robert Carradine (Revenge Of The Nerds) and A Martinez (Ghost). And Mr. Nightlinger was played by Roscoe Lee Brown, who is in a lot of movies. "The Cowboys" is one of Mr. Wayne's last movies, within his last five years, and one of his best. And...Best Movie Ever. LOL.
"Sands of Iwo Jima" he bites the dust as well. Think there were a few more movie as well. Suggest checking out the UA-cam channel "Famous People with Wrangler". He does an awesome job of presenting various actors/actresses in western films and a bunch other stuff western movie related. He also has a listing of ALL the movies that John Wayne died in. Want to say there are 7 movies but cannot remember.@@RpVane
"Ghost" Yes. A Martinez played one of the bad guys that killed the main character, Patrick Swayze, and then got swallowed up by the beings that took him to hell.@@Dave-hb7lx
When my Tennessee-born wife saw City Slickers, she thought the concept so funny she bought her NYC born husband a week on a working ranch in Wyoming. I prepped for it by riding twice a week in Central Park with a friend for six weeks. But even so, twelve hours in the saddle, my ass felt it. But fun memories, and I love Wyoming.
The late Don Imus, a popular US radio personality, had a charity cowboy training camp which trained children with cancer or recovering from cancer, plus the siblings of SIDS victims, to be cowbows. It was a kind of Summer camp.
One of the interesting things to me about this movie is that John Wayne was an old school 'movie star' kind of actor. Bruce Dern, the bad guy in this movie, is a method actor. So in their scenes together you get to see the two approaches to acting with both actors at the top of their form. This movie is like a transition point, the old guy passing the torch to the younger generation.
Very interesting way to describe it. Many of the actors in the film were trained actors, unlike Wayne who basically just learned as he went through his career. Wayne always was on set though Watching and learning and listening. He would also instruct on ways to do the fight scenes for others.
@@shawnmiller4781 a lot of people say that. Personally I see differences in his characters but they usually have similar qualities. It was probably both good and bad for him. He couldn't play a villain like Dern. He had to be the strong hero. That's what fans expected.
I come from a ranch family and was the oldest of 3 boys. For our family, a 1/2 beef (side) would last us a year. We had 2 deep freezers, one for the meat and one for everything else that needed freezing, BTW, the longest cattle drive we ever had to do with our cattle was about 10 miles, but there were some ranches near by that drove cattle by horseback as far as 25 miles. Some of my grandfather's ranch (a true cowboy from South Dakota) has been incorporated into the East Block of the Grasslands National Park of Canada, my youngest brother has taken over my parent's ranch, which is just outside of the borders of the park in the Wood Mountain Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada on the north side of the State of Montana, USA.
I love Vincent D'Onofrio's take on the Kingpin character in the Marvel Universe. But Roscoe Lee Browne provided the voice of the Kingpin on the 1990s Spider-Man cartoon, and the fact is, his depiction was the most loyal to Stan Lee's original vision for the character.
Dawn: Did You Know??? Bruce Dern's [Long Hair bad guy] maternal grandfather was a Vice President of the Carson, Pirie and Scott stores, which were established by his own father, Scottish-born businessman Andrew MacLeish. Dern's maternal granduncle was poet Archibald MacLeish, an American poet and writer, who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. He was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
You obviously haven't seen either of the "City Slickers" movies yet, but there are camps like this in real life that you can pay to go to for a working vacation, and drive cattle. They have places like that here in the US, and I've heard of ones in Australia too. Probably other countries too. Wouldn't be surprised if they had places like that in Argentina, or other countries in South America.
My absolute favorite Western and John Wayne movie. Other westerns on my favorites list: Rio Bravo (JW) McLintock (JW) Big Jake (JW) El Dorado (JW) Silverado Sons Of Katie Elder (JW) Tombstone 5 Card Stud You've watched my favorites of Clint Eastwood westerns. Actually Cimmaron was supposed to be roughly the same age as Slim. He was more than likely giving them Castor Oil or Cod Liver Oil for their hangovers. 😂 I always wanted a sequel that showed the boys taking care of Wil Andersen's wife and running the ranch for her. Finally Cimmaron would have a home and the other boys would adopt her as a 2nd mother.
If you can find it, they did a TV show that lasted one season. It basically picked up with the boys bringing Mrs. Anderson the money from the drive and offering to work the ranch. Same name as the film and I believe that 3 or 4 from the film were in it.
Heres another one for the list once you watch it that is..... Red River ( 1948 ) Definitely one of John Waynes best acting jobs Also staring... Montgomery Clift Walter Brennan Joanne Dru Its about the first cattle drive up the Chisholm Trail I can't believe so many people missed or have never seen this amazing movieits a great western and one of Waynes best !
This is my all-time favorite John Wayne cowboy movie-and almost forgotten, or never seen, by most people- glad to see you are bringing it back into the spotlight!
My 3 favorite Westerns that were more recent are Appaloosa, Open Range and Unforgiven. You've watched a few of my older favorites but Red River, which also stars John Wayne, is considered a classic. It also introduced Montgomery Clift who absolutely nailed his first film role which made him an instant movie star.
What I love about you, Dawn Marie, is that regardless of how I feel about the film genre of the day, I just jump right in, because I know it’ll be a very entertaining reaction.
The guy you thought looked like Nicolas Cage is Bruce Dern. He's the father of Laura Dern. Glad you're reacting to this. It's one of my favorite late-in-life John Wayne westerns.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet, but in the early day of movies, there was an overture, an intermission, and ending credits themes. The overture music acted like a call to everyone to take their seats, because the show was about to start. The intermission was to allow folks a chance to get up and stretch, go to the restroom, and partake in snacks from the concession stand. It was needed because back in those days, folks weren't used to sitting for long periods of time.
Hi Dawn, I think you would really enjoy, Little Big Man (1970) It's stars Dustin Hoffman. It about the old West and the massacre of General Custer at the Little Bighorn. Oh, yeah, I almost forgot to mention Open Range with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall.
I was attending high school in Wyoming when “The Cowboys” arrived at our small-town theater. We lived on acreage and had horses which I rode all of the time in the foothills of the magnificent Wind River mountains. Super great memories!
The town where they finish the Cattle drive, Belle Fourche, South Dakota is a nice place to visit. It's just a short distance from Deadwood and Sturgis. I spent a few days there in June of '22.
If you Seach FSO ( Film Score Orchestra ) on UA-cam you will find a bunch of live performances of the music from The Cowboys, Rocky, Star Wars abd several other movies
Overtures are orchestral pieces played before an Opera, Play, or the like that are usually comprised of a number of the musical themes in the actual show. It became a part of Films back in the day, before there was 15+ minutes of previews to bore everyone to death. Definitely a classy way to open a movie.
King Kong, Lawrence of Arabia, Ice Station Zebra, and Jeremiah Johnston are the most notable films with overtures. The Hateful Eight had one in its' roadshow version.
Indeed, some music to entertain the audience as people enter and find their seats. Much better than our current system of advertisements and coming attractions.
All UA-cam reactors should be told about overtures and such. It would save us having to sit there watching them go "What's going on? Is it supposed to do this?" for two or three minutes.
@@porflepopnecker4376 Nah, it's fun watching their puzzlement. If for nothing else than watching the slow realization that things haven't always been done the way they are used to and that they don't know everything.
So glad you watched this one! This was The Duke in one of his best! I was about the same age as the youngest Cowboy when this came out. Bruce Dern scared the living hell out of me when I first saw this! A bit of trivia, half of the boys that played the were actors, and half were real cowboys that competed in rodeo professionally! The youngest was one of them! Clay O'Brien was his name, and he was 8 years old at the time! He had been competing since he was 4!
In the pre-streaming/pre DVR days this movie cost me a lot of sleep. No matter how many times it came on TV at 10 or 11 at night I'd get caught up watching it again and would stay up late watching the whole movie.
Great choice and great reaction. This was Wayne's favorite movie, because he liked teaching the boys roping and riding. 5 of those boys went on to become rodeo champions. You might like, "Sons of Katie Elder,"
When I was but a wee lad, my grandpa tool mento seenthis film when it came out. He used to tell me stories about running herds up the Shawnee trail from Texas to Kansas City, when he was but a wee lad, with his dad, brothers, and uncles.
I saw The Cowboys in the theatre when I was 8. It was a big shock to see the Hero killed in a movie. I love the music! There is a really cool 50th Anniversary reunion of the Kids on UA-cam. 10 kids, 5 actors, 5 real cowboys. They had to learn to become the each other. After making the movie 2 of the Actor kids became real cowboys. They have some cool stories about the Duke. It's a great watch.
I saw it and it was amazing. To see John Wayne's youngest son keeping the legacy of his dad alive is heartwarming. He is such a humble person and seeing the boys all grown up was surreal. They all seemed to care for each other after all these years and they were really funny. Plus the let the audience ask questions. A must see!
Matt Clark (the Cowboy at the start who says "You got my word on that") was the Bartender in Santa Rio from The Outlaw Josey Wales. He's a fixture in the Western genre.
I have used *burning daylight" for decades. It was an expression I picked up in my military days. It is nice that it is used in a John Wayne film. That means it will live on forever as his movies are always "must watch" cinema for someone to have a proper education when it comes to films.
There is a wonderful interview with the boys that acted in this movie done recently. They were all there and the stories they have to tell are hysterical! This movie did not do well when it first came out. Since it is now one of his most popular films you may wonder why it was not well received when it came out...well, it was because it is one of the very few movies in which John Wayne dies!
Delighted to see you reacting to this classic! This and "The Big Trail" are my two favorite John Wayne movies. My parents took me to see this when it came out. It was a wide, curved screen and I was sitting front row center, so I almost felt like I was inside the movie.
Yay! I follow several movie and TV series reactors and you are the first to react to the Cowboys! One of my all time favorite westerns! A little trivia, Bruce Dern who played the leader of the bad guys and went on to have a great acting carreer had a hard time getting cast for movies for a couple of years after the Cowboys was released. No on wanted to hire the man who killed John Wayne. True story
OMG! I've been begging reactors to PLEASE react to my FAVORITE western movie ever! I saw this when I was 12 and always wanted to be a cowboy and all the boys in the our neighbourhood played Cowboys and Indians! This movie is beautifully filmed showing how hard a life being a trail hand is and watching these young boys grow up. Plus it has some very funny scenes! The guitar piece played by Slim is "Largo" by Vivaldi. To me it is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed. It makes me want to cry, it's so beautiful! And I love how they play it during the rugged work day. A great contrast! Bruce Dern, aka "Long Hair" found it hard to get work after he killed The Duke! The ending killed me when a dying John Wayne tells them he's proud of them! Please thank your "Patreon Tim" for us! "Best Movie Ever" ™ Thank-you Dawn!
The town of Belle Fourche is my hometown. Born and raised there until I was 14. Don’t live to far from there now. Still lots of family there. They have an annual rodeo that has been going on for 100yrs if not longer. It’s also known as the geographic center of the nation for all 50 states
As a kid in the 70s, I saw a western nearly every weekend on TV. The Cowboys I've never forgotten, and one of my all time favorites. Thanks for the review!
Great film! I remember seeing it when it first came out as a kid. Parents took us to the drive in to watch it. I remember also thst the drive in fixed up the entrance with covered wagons and corrals with cowboys, live horses and cows! They really looked to entertain in those days. And it was such a shock when John Wayne's character gets killed! At that time he seemed larger than life and had never seen him die in a film. For years I couldn't watch this movie not wanting to see that scene again. As I got older though I was able to watch it again. Now the hard part to watch is the youngsters death. Children's deaths in films are my weak point now.
Great reaction! Among all the great John Wayne Western *Red River* (1948) is my favorite. The film narrates the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas.
I'm 59, grew up on the Duke and this is one of my favorites! I love the coming of age aspect, especially under the firm, fair, loving hand of John Wayne!
I remember going to the theatre to see this movie. My first John Wayne movie seen in theatre. I love this movie. I am glad to see someone reviewing this on the net. You can visit a "dude ranch" and get the cowboy life for a vacation. Great reaction. That is the same reaction I had years ago.
Harrison Ford is the tall cowboy of the 3 that go off to find gold at the beginning. Edit: Upon review, this post is incorrect. IMDB is your friend. LOL.
No, it's Walter Scott. He's credited on the movie, as an actor, as the role "Okay' at IMDB if you look it up. He was a stunt man for the film, as well, and was put in that scene at the beginning. Mr. Scott became a stunt coordinator, did a little film called "Back to the Future". He was driving the Jeep, Michael J Fox grabbed onto in the film.
Since you're enjoying Westerns so much, i'm going to keep recommending my two favorites: OPEN RANGE (2003) Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Annette Bening. DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990) Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, Mary McDonnell. Enjoy -
FYI: Overture was played before the movie started while people were in the lobby and the lobby lights would flash, signaling the people to enter and take their seats. Intermission was time to use the restrooms and have a smoke, lights would flash again signaling it was time to get back to your seats. It was more of an experience back then, before people were simply herded in after paying admission then expected to leave as soon as the show ended so the next batch of people could be herded in.
Dawn, IIRC, I started watching when you were reacting to Monty Python. Now that you've seen "The Cowboys" and "The Searchers", there are 4 John Wayne westerns I feel you must see. "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" "Rio Bravo" "El Dorado" and "The Shootist". The Shootist is Wayne's final film. Several of his friends were in it, including Jimmy Stewart. Wayne made a lot of cowboy movies, but he also had a set of cavalry movies; "Rio Grande", "Fort Apache" and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" among them. Most were written by James Warner Bellah, who was an exceptional western writer. "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" was probably the definitive movie in the collection. I know it's by far my favorite. "I'm not gonna cry; I want to stand up and cheer".
Okay, the one guy who he fired at the beginning... he was in both "The Outlaw Josey Wales" and "Jeremiah Johnson" (I think you've seen both...) He's made a lot of westerns. The Schoolteacher was the crazy woman in "Jeremiah Johnson".
That made me think of the Robin Williams movie “What Dreams May Come” The two kids just went off to school. Both killed in a car accident. They never saw their kids again.
I have been begging UA-camrs to react to "The Cowboys," and Dawn's love of westerns and her affection for stories by or about old men makes her the perfect person to react to and appreciate it. I wish I had a thousand thumbs to upvote this video.
I'm watching this now. Very chatty, rather like a podcast - maybe it originally was a podcast? Very cool seeing the guys shoot the shit. Thanks for mentioning it, I had no idea it existed. 🙂
I've watched all your videos. Thank you for you company. You are absolutely not hard to look at and I wish you all the best. Good luck and I hope this channel makes you famous.
My family and I went to the Drive-in theater to see this, I was 5. STILL today I always enjoy this movie. Wayne at his best along with True Grit!! I'm so very glad you enjoyed this classic!!
I saw this movie at the cinema when it came out, when I was about seven! The only thing I knew about John Wayne was that he was the hero, so I was so shocked when he was killed! I still haven't forgiven Bruce Dern!
Some interesting trivia about the boys selected by John Wayne: The boy Weedy that Wayne didn't want (so he drew the line above his head on the chalk board) is Clay O'Brien. O'Brien also starred in "The Apple Dumpling Gang" in 1975 and, again with John Wayne, in "Cahill: U.S. Marshall" in 1973. The reason that it's interesting is that, Clay O'Brien left acting in 1976 and returned to cowboying full-time. He is the holder of at least seven World Titles in team roping along with many other rodeo achievements. The boy called 'Slim' is played by Robert Carradine (whose father John Carradine also plays Oscar Schmidt in this movie) who is probably best known for his character Lewis Skulnick in 1984s "Revenge of the Nerds". Most of the other boys have gone on to become well known as well but I'll let you read up on them at your leisure.
There's so many great Western films. Three that I like that don't get to much mention anymore are Nevada Smith (Steve McQueen), McKenna's Gold (Gregory Peck), and the epic How the West was Won. A couple of western themed sci-fi/fantasy films are the Valley of Gwangi (a cowboy and dinosaur film that worked well) and the Seven Faces of Dr. Lao (Tony Randall).
Bruce Dern has a long history of playing viilians. For a change of pace check him out as a space hippy in Silent Running. The first movie to prove small non-verbal robots could be compelling characters.
I recommend the movie " Support Y 30:58 our Local Sheriff ". A comedy Western that has Beuce Dern ( the bad guy with the teeth and hair) in it. It stars James Garner with a bunch of Western actors. It's very well done.
One of the best movies ever made! I saw it when it first came out, and it was surprising, and satisfying at the end. Thanks for a wonderful time watching it with you! God bless you!
This is one of The Dukes best. His war movies are pretty good too. Personal recommendations: Sands of Iwo Jima They Were Expendable In Harm's Way Back Bataan
This was the movie that taught me to love westerns when I was a child. I was ambivalent before this one. I was already a John Wayne fan because I remember seeing "The Quiet Man" several times by that age. I had also seen him in some war movies but this was the first Western I saw the Duke in.
At that time most people lived to about 30 years old. In the US and what is now the UK there were 9 year old kids that worked 12+ hours a day 6 days a week.
Great reaction to the Cowboys movie! One of my favorite! John Wayne plays a great cowboy. Rooster Cogburn is another good JW movie! For a good Clint Eastwood western movie try Pale Rider! Thanks for sharing!
At first i thought it was the movie.... Cowboy (1958) Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon Based off a true story of a Welsh writer who spent time as a cowhand in the 1870's Jack Lemmon really shines in this film. Jack Lemmon is one of my favorite actors Dawn and he's also a star in one of my all-time favorite films going way back to grade school called... The Great Race (1962) A 20,000 mile car race from New York to Paris... sounds crazy yes and also very funny 😂😂😂 Jack Lemmon Tony Curtis Peter Falk Natalie Wood ( Jack Lemmon stars as Professor Fate bad guy and Peter Falk plays Max is henchman and together they are a riot in the film ) Thank you for the reaction and movie Dawn ✌️🙂
You hit me directly with the comment on wanting a cow, washing and blow-drying it, and walking it through town. I've said those exact things to people so many times. Everyone who knows me, knows that's what I want to. One more thing that adds to you being my favorite movie reaction person. Keep up the good work.
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I think you'd also love John Wayne's last movie The Shootist. Legendary John Williams did the music for The Cowboys.
OPEN RANGE with Kevin Costner is one of the best cowboy movies EVER
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Bruce Dern did a great job playing one of the top movie villians ever!
Bruce Dern said despite their big age difference, & John Wayne only having one lung, he'd lost the other to cancer, John Wayne roughed him up pretty good in that fight. It was so realistic for Dern; it was difficult for him to think of it as fake.
Both Dern & Wayne were college athletes. John Wayne was a gridiron football player, & Bruce Dern ran track.
I'm 59 years old. I remember my Dad showing me and my brother this movie when I was about those boys' age. We loved it and never forgot it. I've showed it to my boys, too. I just lost my Dad, so it really hit home. Thanks, Dawn.
My dad took me and my brothers to the drive-in to see it
I vaguely remember reading the book this was based on when I was a kid. Pretty sure the wandering "brothel" didn't just ride off with out scoring some work, if I recall correctly, heh.
My condolences for your loss.
@@jpbliss1 Thank you.
My first driven movies were Big Jake,and Man Called Horse what a double feature I'm 65
This is probably my favorite western of all time. Not enough people react to this, or are even aware of it, its criminally underrated IMO
John Wayne's last film was "The Shootist". You'll love it.
Have tissues close at hand.
He did all his own stunts with only 1 lung.
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Hello, it was cancer. Alot of people wept a lot of prayers for his cure. I think that he lived another 14 years.
@@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710 "The Shootist" was released in 1976. He passed away in 1979.
I heard the smallest boy in the group grew up to be an award winning rodeo rider, and John Wayne said the boy was the most natural cowboy he had ever seen.....👍
Actually he was already one when this was filmed. Half the boys in the film were city kids who could act the other half were country boys who where junior rodeo stars.
@@brandonangstman Was t he an actor, cause he did other stuff, acting wise. I think he did Gunsmoke and wasn't he in Cahill US Marshall?
@@LilHoss no pretty sure that was a different kid in Cahill.
@@LilHoss that's his younger son in the movie Cahill US Marshall. One of the other boys is one of the carradines and went on to be the father in Lizzie McGuire
@@98nh3609 you mean the guy we're talking about was his younger son in the movie The Cowboys? You're not talking about Ethan Wayne? Ethan Wayne played his grandson in Big Jake.
You should do Clint Eastwood's "2 Mules for Sister Sara", a good Western for you. Another Western era movie you should watch is "Hidalgo", A old time long distance race horse movie, he's won pretty well every race in Old West, and then goes over to Arabia for a long Distance desert race. This one stars Viggo Mortensen, who also played Aragorn in Lord of the Rings.
Hidalgo is so good
Both very good movies. I'd also recommend The Big Country, with Gregory Peck. It's got everything you're looking for, Dawn-Marie: an upstanding hero, grand adventure, romance, and an extremely rousing musical score, one of the greatest ever composed. I don't think anyone else on UA-cam has done a reaction to it yet, so it's high time.
The guy who tracked them is played by Bruce Dern, who has had a long career and is also the father of actress Laura Dern.
Dawn needs to review The ‘Burbs. One of Bruce Dern’s funniest and most unhinged roles.
Bruce Dern in "The Haunting" with Liam Neeson. 1999. Mr. Dudley. The Haunting of Hill House is a similar movie.
@@jadejewel6586 I don't really like the 1999 remake of _The Haunting,_ but I recommend the 1963 version and Shirley Jackson's book. The miniseries of _The Haunting of Hill House_ is also good but _very_ loosely inspired by the book. Dawn did do the original version of _The Haunting,_ though, and didn't like it, so maybe she would prefer that. _The House on Haunted Hill_ is fun (I've only seen the Vincent Price version) and _The Legend of Hell House_ is good (Roddy McDowall and Pamela Franklin -- Franklin is also in _The Innocents,_ based on _The Turn of the Screw,_ which also inspired _The Haunting of Bly Manor)._
Two of the kids went on to longer movie careers, Robert Carradine (Revenge Of The Nerds) and A Martinez (Ghost). And Mr. Nightlinger was played by Roscoe Lee Brown, who is in a lot of movies. "The Cowboys" is one of Mr. Wayne's last movies, within his last five years, and one of his best. And...Best Movie Ever. LOL.
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I thinks one of only three he dies in. This, the Shootist, and The Alamo.
He also dies in "The Sands of Iwo Jima" where he played Sgt. Striker.@@RpVane
"Sands of Iwo Jima" he bites the dust as well. Think there were a few more movie as well. Suggest checking out the UA-cam channel "Famous People with Wrangler". He does an awesome job of presenting various actors/actresses in western films and a bunch other stuff western movie related. He also has a listing of ALL the movies that John Wayne died in. Want to say there are 7 movies but cannot remember.@@RpVane
@@RpVane Sands of Iwo Jima also.
"Ghost" Yes. A Martinez played one of the bad guys that killed the main character, Patrick Swayze, and then got swallowed up by the beings that took him to hell.@@Dave-hb7lx
Another really good cattle drive movie is the comedy "City Slickers" starring Billy Crystal. You would love it.
Yes, in a sense City Slickers is a remake of Cowboys; but, substitute middle-aged Jewish New Yorkers for the kids.
When my Tennessee-born wife saw City Slickers, she thought the concept so funny she bought her NYC born husband a week on a working ranch in Wyoming. I prepped for it by riding twice a week in Central Park with a friend for six weeks. But even so, twelve hours in the saddle, my ass felt it. But fun memories, and I love Wyoming.
The late Don Imus, a popular US radio personality, had a charity cowboy training camp which trained children with cancer or recovering from cancer, plus the siblings of SIDS victims, to be cowbows. It was a kind of Summer camp.
One of the interesting things to me about this movie is that John Wayne was an old school 'movie star' kind of actor. Bruce Dern, the bad guy in this movie, is a method actor. So in their scenes together you get to see the two approaches to acting with both actors at the top of their form. This movie is like a transition point, the old guy passing the torch to the younger generation.
Very interesting way to describe it. Many of the actors in the film were trained actors, unlike Wayne who basically just learned as he went through his career. Wayne always was on set though
Watching and learning and listening. He would also instruct on ways to do the fight scenes for others.
Yup and that is why John Wayne always had to play the role as John Wayne
@@shawnmiller4781 a lot of people say that. Personally I see differences in his characters but they usually have similar qualities. It was probably both good and bad for him. He couldn't play a villain like Dern. He had to be the strong hero. That's what fans expected.
"The Big Country" with Gregory Peck...great old western.
The Cowboys has always been one of my favorite movies. Always reminds me of Dad.
One of my favorites is "Two Mules for Sister Sarah"
"Take his teeth and sell them for piano keys". Holy hell. Remind me never to piss her off
I come from a ranch family and was the oldest of 3 boys. For our family, a 1/2 beef (side) would last us a year. We had 2 deep freezers, one for the meat and one for everything else that needed freezing, BTW, the longest cattle drive we ever had to do with our cattle was about 10 miles, but there were some ranches near by that drove cattle by horseback as far as 25 miles. Some of my grandfather's ranch (a true cowboy from South Dakota) has been incorporated into the East Block of the Grasslands National Park of Canada, my youngest brother has taken over my parent's ranch, which is just outside of the borders of the park in the Wood Mountain Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada on the north side of the State of Montana, USA.
How long would those drives take? Days? Hours?
Roscoe Lee Browne almost steals every scene he's in.
I really liked him as Boxx in Logan's Run...
"Almost" every scene?
@@mikemilne You're right. He is so great.
I love Vincent D'Onofrio's take on the Kingpin character in the Marvel Universe. But Roscoe Lee Browne provided the voice of the Kingpin on the 1990s Spider-Man cartoon, and the fact is, his depiction was the most loyal to Stan Lee's original vision for the character.
Dawn: Did You Know??? Bruce Dern's [Long Hair bad guy] maternal grandfather was a Vice President of the Carson, Pirie and Scott stores, which were established by his own father, Scottish-born businessman Andrew MacLeish. Dern's maternal granduncle was poet Archibald MacLeish, an American poet and writer, who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. He was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
And Bruce Dern is the father of Laura Dern. She starred in Jurrasic Park.
So basically Bruce Dern was a Scottish spy right there in Hollywood.
@@angelohernandez6060 Dern it, I forgot that!
ALRIGHT! You the first person I know of to finally get around to reacting to the BEST MOVIE EVER! Congrats, Dawn...
You obviously haven't seen either of the "City Slickers" movies yet, but there are camps like this in real life that you can pay to go to for a working vacation, and drive cattle. They have places like that here in the US, and I've heard of ones in Australia too. Probably other countries too. Wouldn't be surprised if they had places like that in Argentina, or other countries in South America.
I would love to see Dawn’s video diary from a long weekend on a dude ranch.
I love Nightlinger's making peace with his maker. You need to watch Silverado with a cameo by John Cleese.
My absolute favorite Western and John Wayne movie. Other westerns on my favorites list:
Rio Bravo (JW)
McLintock (JW)
Big Jake (JW)
El Dorado (JW)
Silverado
Sons Of Katie Elder (JW)
Tombstone
5 Card Stud
You've watched my favorites of Clint Eastwood westerns.
Actually Cimmaron was supposed to be roughly the same age as Slim.
He was more than likely giving them Castor Oil or Cod Liver Oil for their hangovers. 😂
I always wanted a sequel that showed the boys taking care of Wil Andersen's wife and running the ranch for her. Finally Cimmaron would have a home and the other boys would adopt her as a 2nd mother.
This is my favorite JW movie, but my favorite western is The Outlaw Josey Wales.
What? No SEARCHERS?
@@wadeheaton123 oops. Forgot that one. I knew I was missing one.
If you can find it, they did a TV show that lasted one season. It basically picked up with the boys bringing Mrs. Anderson the money from the drive and offering to work the ranch. Same name as the film and I believe that 3 or 4 from the film were in it.
Heres another one for the list once you watch it that is.....
Red River ( 1948 ) Definitely one of John Waynes best acting jobs Also staring... Montgomery Clift Walter Brennan Joanne Dru
Its about the first cattle drive up the Chisholm Trail
I can't believe so many people missed or have never seen this amazing movieits a great western and one of Waynes best !
This is my all-time favorite John Wayne cowboy movie-and almost forgotten, or never seen, by most people- glad to see you are bringing it back into the spotlight!
My 3 favorite Westerns that were more recent are Appaloosa, Open Range and Unforgiven. You've watched a few of my older favorites but Red River, which also stars John Wayne, is considered a classic. It also introduced Montgomery Clift who absolutely nailed his first film role which made him an instant movie star.
I love John Wayne and this is one of my favorites of his. The other John Wayne movie I love is Hatari.
Hatari is great fun! I love Red Buttons in it... "Tell me again, Sean... "
What I love about you, Dawn Marie, is that regardless of how I feel about the film genre of the day, I just jump right in, because I know it’ll be a very entertaining reaction.
The guy you thought looked like Nicolas Cage is Bruce Dern. He's the father of Laura Dern. Glad you're reacting to this. It's one of my favorite late-in-life John Wayne westerns.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet, but in the early day of movies, there was an overture, an intermission, and ending credits themes. The overture music acted like a call to everyone to take their seats, because the show was about to start. The intermission was to allow folks a chance to get up and stretch, go to the restroom, and partake in snacks from the concession stand. It was needed because back in those days, folks weren't used to sitting for long periods of time.
Hi Dawn,
I think you would really enjoy, Little Big Man (1970) It's stars Dustin Hoffman. It about the old West and the massacre of General Custer at the Little Bighorn. Oh, yeah, I almost forgot to mention Open Range with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall.
I was attending high school in Wyoming when “The Cowboys” arrived at our small-town theater. We lived on acreage and had horses which I rode all of the time in the foothills of the magnificent Wind River mountains. Super great memories!
The town where they finish the Cattle drive, Belle Fourche, South Dakota is a nice place to visit. It's just a short distance from Deadwood and Sturgis. I spent a few days there in June of '22.
The score by John Williams (every "Star War" movie, every Spielberg movie) is one of my favorites.
If you Seach FSO ( Film Score Orchestra ) on UA-cam you will find a bunch of live performances of the music from The Cowboys, Rocky, Star Wars abd several other movies
Overtures are orchestral pieces played before an Opera, Play, or the like that are usually comprised of a number of the musical themes in the actual show. It became a part of Films back in the day, before there was 15+ minutes of previews to bore everyone to death. Definitely a classy way to open a movie.
King Kong, Lawrence of Arabia, Ice Station Zebra, and Jeremiah Johnston are the most notable films with overtures. The Hateful Eight had one in its' roadshow version.
Indeed, some music to entertain the audience as people enter and find their seats.
Much better than our current system of advertisements and coming attractions.
All UA-cam reactors should be told about overtures and such. It would save us having to sit there watching them go "What's going on? Is it supposed to do this?" for two or three minutes.
@@porflepopnecker4376 Nah, it's fun watching their puzzlement. If for nothing else than watching the slow realization that things haven't always been done the way they are used to and that they don't know everything.
So glad you watched this one! This was The Duke in one of his best! I was about the same age as the youngest Cowboy when this came out. Bruce Dern scared the living hell out of me when I first saw this! A bit of trivia, half of the boys that played the were actors, and half were real cowboys that competed in rodeo professionally! The youngest was one of them! Clay O'Brien was his name, and he was 8 years old at the time! He had been competing since he was 4!
The actors taught the cowboys how to act and the cowboys taught the actors how to cowboy. Genius casting.
In the pre-streaming/pre DVR days this movie cost me a lot of sleep. No matter how many times it came on TV at 10 or 11 at night I'd get caught up watching it again and would stay up late watching the whole movie.
Still do the same to this day whenever flipping through the TV channels late at night and come across a John Wayne movie.
I saw this with my family at the premier weekend in NYC 1969. Still one of my fave movies.
My grandfather took me to the movie theater only once, and this was the movie he took me to see. I was 7 at the time.
BTW, the bad guy with the long hair and big teeth, was Bruce Dern (Hang 'Em High), and the father of Laura Dern (Jurassic Park, Blue Velvet).
I liked him in Support Your Local Sheriff.
He was also in a sci-fi movie I liked, "Silent Running".
Bruce Dern was intense as the Vietnam veteran, troubled husband in "Coming Home" w/Jane Fonda, Jon Voight
Great choice and great reaction. This was Wayne's favorite movie, because he liked teaching the boys roping and riding. 5 of those boys went on to become rodeo champions.
You might like, "Sons of Katie Elder,"
"Donovan's" Reef" is a John Wayne comedy that you might enjoy
When I was but a wee lad, my grandpa tool mento seenthis film when it came out. He used to tell me stories about running herds up the Shawnee trail from Texas to Kansas City, when he was but a wee lad, with his dad, brothers, and uncles.
Another true western. Great reaction Dawn, you are one of only a few who didn't cry when that kid died.
I saw The Cowboys in the theatre when I was 8. It was a big shock to see the Hero killed in a movie. I love the music!
There is a really cool 50th Anniversary reunion of the Kids on UA-cam. 10 kids, 5 actors, 5 real cowboys. They had to learn to become the each other. After making the movie 2 of the Actor kids became real cowboys. They have some cool stories about the Duke. It's a great watch.
I saw it and it was amazing. To see John Wayne's youngest son keeping the legacy of his dad alive is heartwarming. He is such a humble person and seeing the boys all grown up was surreal. They all seemed to care for each other after all these years and they were really funny. Plus the let the audience ask questions. A must see!
It's awesome! @@mannys4036
Matt Clark (the Cowboy at the start who says "You got my word on that") was the Bartender in Santa Rio from The Outlaw Josey Wales. He's a fixture in the Western genre.
Please react to My name is nobody from 1973 with Terence Hill and Henry Fonda. It is amazing western movie.
I have used *burning daylight" for decades. It was an expression I picked up in my military days.
It is nice that it is used in a John Wayne film. That means it will live on forever as his movies are always "must watch" cinema for someone to have a proper education when it comes to films.
I heard Bruce Dern didn't tell anyone that he was going to dunk the boy in the river, not even the kid, so his reaction was genuine.
There is a wonderful interview with the boys that acted in this movie done recently. They were all there and the stories they have to tell are hysterical! This movie did not do well when it first came out. Since it is now one of his most popular films you may wonder why it was not well received when it came out...well, it was because it is one of the very few movies in which John Wayne dies!
Delighted to see you reacting to this classic! This and "The Big Trail" are my two favorite John Wayne movies. My parents took me to see this when it came out. It was a wide, curved screen and I was sitting front row center, so I almost felt like I was inside the movie.
Yay! I follow several movie and TV series reactors and you are the first to react to the Cowboys! One of my all time favorite westerns!
A little trivia, Bruce Dern who played the leader of the bad guys and went on to have a great acting carreer had a hard time getting cast for movies for a couple of years after the Cowboys was released.
No on wanted to hire the man who killed John Wayne. True story
OMG! I've been begging reactors to PLEASE react to my FAVORITE western movie ever! I saw this when I was 12 and always wanted to be a cowboy and all the boys in the our neighbourhood played Cowboys and Indians!
This movie is beautifully filmed showing how hard a life being a trail hand is and watching these young boys grow up. Plus it has some very funny scenes!
The guitar piece played by Slim is "Largo" by Vivaldi. To me it is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed. It makes me want to cry, it's so beautiful! And I love how they play it during the rugged work day. A great contrast!
Bruce Dern, aka "Long Hair" found it hard to get work after he killed The Duke!
The ending killed me when a dying John Wayne tells them he's proud of them!
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My personal favourite Western is called The Big Country
They showed this movie in our junior high over 2 or 3 days. I'll never forget it
The town of Belle Fourche is my hometown. Born and raised there until I was 14. Don’t live to far from there now. Still lots of family there. They have an annual rodeo that has been going on for 100yrs if not longer. It’s also known as the geographic center of the nation for all 50 states
It is just so awesome to see a reactor who loves Westerns and John Wayne.
Irish Guy Reacts is great for Westerns. He's watched quite a lot of John Wayne. Madison K watches Westerns too.
Dawn, another really good one with John Wayne as a western father of 2 boys, "Cahill U.S. Marshall" from 1973, equally as good but a happier ending.
Hang em high with Clint is a much watch classic, Dawn.
As a kid in the 70s, I saw a western nearly every weekend on TV. The Cowboys I've never forgotten, and one of my all time favorites. Thanks for the review!
John Williams did the music...he did Jaws , Star Wars, all those.
Great film!
I remember seeing it when it first came out as a kid. Parents took us to the drive in to watch it. I remember also thst the drive in fixed up the entrance with covered wagons and corrals with cowboys, live horses and cows! They really looked to entertain in those days.
And it was such a shock when John Wayne's character gets killed! At that time he seemed larger than life and had never seen him die in a film. For years I couldn't watch this movie not wanting to see that scene again. As I got older though I was able to watch it again.
Now the hard part to watch is the youngsters death. Children's deaths in films are my weak point now.
This was supposed to be John Waynes last movie. It was so popular that it gave a huge boost to John Wayne's career and westerns in general
The first movie that ever made me cry. I was 11 years old.
Thanks!
Great reaction! Among all the great John Wayne Western *Red River* (1948) is my favorite. The film narrates the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas.
Enjoyed watching you enjoy one my favorite movies from my childhood.
All time classic. Roscoe Lee Brown, and John Wayne were perfect together
I'm 59, grew up on the Duke and this is one of my favorites! I love the coming of age aspect, especially under the firm, fair, loving hand of John Wayne!
I remember going to the theatre to see this movie. My first John Wayne movie seen in theatre. I love this movie. I am glad to see someone reviewing this on the net. You can visit a "dude ranch" and get the cowboy life for a vacation. Great reaction. That is the same reaction I had years ago.
Harrison Ford is the tall cowboy of the 3 that go off to find gold at the beginning.
Edit: Upon review, this post is incorrect. IMDB is your friend. LOL.
I pulled up the full cast of The Cowboys & didn’t see Harrison Ford’s name on the list.
No, it's Walter Scott. He's credited on the movie, as an actor, as the role "Okay' at IMDB if you look it up.
He was a stunt man for the film, as well, and was put in that scene at the beginning.
Mr. Scott became a stunt coordinator, did a little film called "Back to the Future".
He was driving the Jeep, Michael J Fox grabbed onto in the film.
@@Leorstef You are spot on. My bad. I was certain that was him, the guy looked and sounded just like Harrison Ford. Dang.
@@MichaelSSmith-hs5pw I am wrong. Dang.
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I looked it up just now and didn't know all these years the score was done by John Williams.
Since you're enjoying Westerns so much, i'm going to keep recommending my two favorites:
OPEN RANGE (2003)
Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Annette Bening.
DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)
Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, Mary McDonnell.
Enjoy -
Great John Williams score, too.
FYI: Overture was played before the movie started while people were in the lobby and the lobby lights would flash, signaling the people to enter and take their seats. Intermission was time to use the restrooms and have a smoke, lights would flash again signaling it was time to get back to your seats. It was more of an experience back then, before people were simply herded in after paying admission then expected to leave as soon as the show ended so the next batch of people could be herded in.
Thank you so much for watching this movie. Brought tears to my eyes remembering watching it with my son many years ago. ❤
Dawn, IIRC, I started watching when you were reacting to Monty Python.
Now that you've seen "The Cowboys" and "The Searchers", there are 4 John Wayne westerns I feel you must see.
"She Wore a Yellow Ribbon"
"Rio Bravo"
"El Dorado"
and
"The Shootist".
The Shootist is Wayne's final film. Several of his friends were in it, including Jimmy Stewart.
Wayne made a lot of cowboy movies, but he also had a set of cavalry movies; "Rio Grande", "Fort Apache" and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" among them. Most were written by James Warner Bellah, who was an exceptional western writer.
"She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" was probably the definitive movie in the collection.
I know it's by far my favorite. "I'm not gonna cry; I want to stand up and cheer".
Okay, the one guy who he fired at the beginning... he was in both "The Outlaw Josey Wales" and "Jeremiah Johnson" (I think you've seen both...)
He's made a lot of westerns.
The Schoolteacher was the crazy woman in "Jeremiah Johnson".
Any time you say goodbye to someone, there’s the possibility that one of you will die before you see the other again.
That made me think of the Robin Williams movie
“What Dreams May Come”
The two kids just went off to school. Both killed in a car accident.
They never saw their kids again.
I have been begging UA-camrs to react to "The Cowboys," and Dawn's love of westerns and her affection for stories by or about old men makes her the perfect person to react to and appreciate it. I wish I had a thousand thumbs to upvote this video.
Dawn. There is a "The Cowboys" 50th anniversary video of the remaining cast on 'Word on Westerns' UA-cam channel. Great interviews and stories!💛
I'm watching this now. Very chatty, rather like a podcast - maybe it originally was a podcast? Very cool seeing the guys shoot the shit. Thanks for mentioning it, I had no idea it existed. 🙂
Growing up in Mississippi, my dad told me stories about they used to break horses in a shallow pond to prevent getting hurt in the fall
I've watched all your videos. Thank you for you company. You are absolutely not hard to look at
and I wish you all the best. Good luck and I hope this channel makes you famous.
My family and I went to the Drive-in theater to see this, I was 5. STILL today I always enjoy this movie. Wayne at his best along with True Grit!! I'm so very glad you enjoyed this classic!!
I saw this movie at the cinema when it came out, when I was about seven! The only thing I knew about John Wayne was that he was the hero, so I was so shocked when he was killed! I still haven't forgiven Bruce Dern!
Some interesting trivia about the boys selected by John Wayne:
The boy Weedy that Wayne didn't want (so he drew the line above his head on the chalk board) is Clay O'Brien. O'Brien also starred in "The Apple Dumpling Gang" in 1975 and, again with John Wayne, in "Cahill: U.S. Marshall" in 1973. The reason that it's interesting is that, Clay O'Brien left acting in 1976 and returned to cowboying full-time. He is the holder of at least seven World Titles in team roping along with many other rodeo achievements.
The boy called 'Slim' is played by Robert Carradine (whose father John Carradine also plays Oscar Schmidt in this movie) who is probably best known for his character Lewis Skulnick in 1984s "Revenge of the Nerds".
Most of the other boys have gone on to become well known as well but I'll let you read up on them at your leisure.
Oh, I had forgotten Cahill. Another good one. "Don't rob banks".
This is such an outstanding movie!! So glad someone requested it!
This film reminds me of my youth when I worked on my Uncle's ranch. Best education I ever got.
There's so many great Western films. Three that I like that don't get to much mention anymore are Nevada Smith (Steve McQueen), McKenna's Gold (Gregory Peck), and the epic How the West was Won. A couple of western themed sci-fi/fantasy films are the Valley of Gwangi (a cowboy and dinosaur film that worked well) and the Seven Faces of Dr. Lao (Tony Randall).
Bruce Dern has a long history of playing viilians. For a change of pace check him out as a space hippy in Silent Running. The first movie to prove small non-verbal robots could be compelling characters.
Silent Running is great suggestion!
Many episodes of The Big Valley and Gunsmoke, too....always a villain. He was the angry husband in "Coming Home" w/Jane Fonda, Jon Voight
I recommend the movie " Support Y 30:58 our Local Sheriff ". A comedy Western that has Beuce Dern ( the bad guy with the teeth and hair) in it. It stars James Garner with a bunch of Western actors. It's very well done.
One of the best movies ever made! I saw it when it first came out, and it was surprising, and satisfying at the end. Thanks for a wonderful time watching it with you! God bless you!
23:05, Dern improvised the slap. Rosco Lee Brown didn't even know it was coming hence the real reaction.
Aww thank you for this Dawn. I remember watching this with my dad.
They had a 50 year reunion on a cowboy channel I watch on UA-cam, all the boys were there, good time!
I watched it also; funny and amazing to watch!
This is one of The Dukes best. His war movies are pretty good too. Personal recommendations:
Sands of Iwo Jima
They Were Expendable
In Harm's Way
Back Bataan
Flying Leathernecks is a good war movie too.
As a 10-year old growing up in Minnesota when this came out, this was the greatest movie I could have ever seen
This was the movie that taught me to love westerns when I was a child. I was ambivalent before this one. I was already a John Wayne fan because I remember seeing "The Quiet Man" several times by that age. I had also seen him in some war movies but this was the first Western I saw the Duke in.
At that time most people lived to about 30 years old. In the US and what is now the UK there were 9 year old kids that worked 12+ hours a day 6 days a week.
Great reaction to the Cowboys movie! One of my favorite! John Wayne plays a great cowboy. Rooster Cogburn is another good JW movie! For a good Clint Eastwood western movie try Pale Rider! Thanks for sharing!
At first i thought it was the movie....
Cowboy (1958)
Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon
Based off a true story of a Welsh writer who spent time as a cowhand in the 1870's
Jack Lemmon really shines in this film.
Jack Lemmon is one of my favorite actors Dawn and he's also a star in one of my all-time favorite films going way back to grade school called...
The Great Race (1962)
A 20,000 mile car race from New York to Paris... sounds crazy yes and also very funny 😂😂😂
Jack Lemmon Tony Curtis Peter Falk Natalie Wood
( Jack Lemmon stars as Professor Fate bad guy and Peter Falk plays Max is henchman and together they are a riot in the film )
Thank you for the reaction and movie Dawn ✌️🙂
You hit me directly with the comment on wanting a cow, washing and blow-drying it, and walking it through town. I've said those exact things to people so many times. Everyone who knows me, knows that's what I want to. One more thing that adds to you being my favorite movie reaction person. Keep up the good work.