In "The Cowboys" (1972) John Wayne takes on a group of young boys to help him escorting his herd of cows over 400 miles throughout the west, as no men are willing to do it. The journey is full of adventure and of course lessons for the inexperienced boys... and even for the old man Wil Andersen (Wayne). Director Mark Rydell came from directing for television and tried himself in motion pictures around the end of the 60s. In "The Reivers" he enjoyed a very satisfying collaboration with composer John Williams, who had written a marvelous and colorful score for the picture. For "Cowboys" Rydell returned to Williams, who provided again a rather unusual score for the beginning of the 70s: a rousing and youthful orchestral western score. Both of those soundtracks would later call young filmmaker and filmmusic fan Steven Spielberg on the scene to work with the composer on his first movie (and then on and on and on...). The score not only elevated the movie into an absolute colorful joyride but certainly did its part for the careers of Rydell, Williams and Spielberg. Enjoy our ride out of the film's 50th anniversary directly into a new year full of goods for all of you and your loved ones!
Happy holidays dear Fred Love this John Williams score Love the film and the work of Mark Rydell who is part of the Actors Studio as is Bruce Dern. Both of them and the Great John Williams are still with us. Thank God.
@@LaSharown LaSharown, thank you very much for commenting and it's great to see you "showing up". :-) Let me take the chance to wish you and your loved ones a happy new year! Fred
Outstanding craftsmanship Fred, bringing this excellent soundtrack together. I saw this film at a local drive-in theater with my family, and what moved me most, as a Jr. High School student in those turbulent times was the beautifully majestic, heroic music.
Jebediah Nightlinger (Actor Roscoe Lee Browne): This may seem a lonesome place to leave him, but he is not alone, because many of his kind rest here with him. The prairie was like a mother to Mr. Andersen. He belonged to her. She cared for him while he lived. And she is nursing him while he sleeps
Grazie Fred.🤠👍🏻 Bravo John Williams.👏🏻 Concludi l'anno con i 50 anni del film. John Wayne è un monumento dell'epopea western.👏🏻 Il film racconta la fine di un mito, ma anche la necessità di trasmettere la fiaccola in altre mani, che rappresentano un'America nuova, tributaria di quella del passato. Nel 1974 la Warner Bros. produsse la serie televisiva remake "Giovani Cowboys" (The Cowboys) per la ABC con protagonisti Jim Davis, Diana Douglas, e Moses Gunn. Per motivi personali e di tempi, non lo so se continuerò ad esprimere commenti scrivendo o usando solo le emoticon! Buon anno a tutti Happy New Year!🎅🏻🎄❄☃️🦌🎃🎁🎉🍾🥂🎈🎤🎶🎆♻️🌈🫂❤🤞🏻🥳
One of my favorite John Wayne films and an excellent score. I especially like the horn arrangement in Wil and Ann and the shades of Aaron Copeland in Crazy Alice... Happy New Year Fred!
Thanks, so much, Fred! I have heard several different versions of this score, each of them very different, yet each brilliant. There were passages in this version, early on ("The Boys" and "Wil and Ann") that had such originality. This is my favorite Williams score, because it's less of a rip-off than, say, Star Wars (Holst) or Superman (Holst again). But the composer is always the last man on the scene (except for Morricone, in Once Upon a Time in the West). And it was "the big cowboy" and Mark Rydell's direction, which inspired John Williams. I won't say that this was Wayne's greatest performance--Scott Eyman maintains that his work in The Searchers was better than anything Brando ever did--but it's up there. And the restrained scene when Wil Anderson is dying, and talking to the boys about how his sons had gone bad, and he thought this might be a second chance for him, was as good as anything he ever did. He should have been up for Best Actor. Heck, he should have been up for it about eight times!
ON MY WORST DAY I COULD BET THE HELL OUT OF YOU ....WILL ANDERSON....I DON'T THINK SO ....LONG HAIR ....YOU WILL...WILL ANDERSON POWWWW. VERY GOOD FILM 🎥 🎞 🎦 🎬
Hi, Fred! Anyone who wants to know the real John Williams has to analyze him for his works from the 70's backwards, before being influenced by Spielberg's irritating childishness from the 80's onwards. " The Cowboys " is a great example: Williams flirts with previous exponents of essentially North American music such Copland, John Carpenter ( 1876 - 1951 ), Samuel Barber and Ferde Grofe ( especially in the arrangements for brass instruments ), but gives his particular touch ( in the strings ). " The Cowboys " is a melancholic film, but even in this characteristic its music is elegant and doesn't dispense with a feeling of grandiosity of spirit ( he is already here with his favorite orchestrator - since 1967, the Chilean Herbert Spencer ). Well... Thanks again, Fred!! See you in 23!!!
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
What nonsense. The "real" John Williams? What does that even mean? What on earth are you talking about? The guy wrote music for movies. Great music...for movies. No one listens to his other stuff. He was no Beethoven or Mahler probing the purpose of human existence, or writing great cantatas to God like Bach, or playing cat-and -mouse games with a murderous dictator like Shosty. He wrote music - for movies. Great music, throughout his career - for movies!
In "The Cowboys" (1972) John Wayne takes on a group of young boys to help him escorting his herd of cows over 400 miles throughout the west, as no men are willing to do it. The journey is full of adventure and of course lessons for the inexperienced boys... and even for the old man Wil Andersen (Wayne).
Director Mark Rydell came from directing for television and tried himself in motion pictures around the end of the 60s. In "The Reivers" he enjoyed a very satisfying collaboration with composer John Williams, who had written a marvelous and colorful score for the picture. For "Cowboys" Rydell returned to Williams, who provided again a rather unusual score for the beginning of the 70s: a rousing and youthful orchestral western score. Both of those soundtracks would later call young filmmaker and filmmusic fan Steven Spielberg on the scene to work with the composer on his first movie (and then on and on and on...). The score not only elevated the movie into an absolute colorful joyride but certainly did its part for the careers of Rydell, Williams and Spielberg. Enjoy our ride out of the film's 50th anniversary directly into a new year full of goods for all of you and your loved ones!
Happy holidays dear Fred
Love this John Williams score Love the film and the work of Mark Rydell who is part of the Actors Studio as is Bruce Dern. Both of them and the Great John Williams are still with us. Thank God.
@@LaSharown
LaSharown, thank you very much for commenting and it's great to see you "showing up". :-)
Let me take the chance to wish you and your loved ones a happy new year!
Fred
One of our favorite Western genre movies ever - John Wayne and John Williams together!!
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Wil Andersen (Actor John Wayne) : I'm proud of ya... All of ya. Every man wants his children to be better'n he was. You are.
Saw at the theater, still one of my favorites along with this John Williams score, possibly one of his best in my opinion, thanks
You are wise Thunderstruck54, very wise. What other John Williams scores are you a fan of?
@thunderstruck5484 "possibly" "one of his best": were you looking to praise or insult the man?
Outstanding craftsmanship Fred, bringing this excellent soundtrack together. I saw this film at a local drive-in theater with my family, and what moved me most, as a Jr. High School student in those turbulent times was the beautifully majestic, heroic music.
Jebediah Nightlinger (Actor Roscoe Lee Browne): This may seem a lonesome place to leave him, but he is not alone, because many of his kind rest here with him. The prairie was like a mother to Mr. Andersen. He belonged to her. She cared for him while he lived. And she is nursing him while he sleeps
Grazie Fred.🤠👍🏻
Bravo John Williams.👏🏻
Concludi l'anno con i 50 anni del film.
John Wayne è un monumento dell'epopea western.👏🏻
Il film racconta la fine di un mito, ma anche la necessità di trasmettere la fiaccola in altre mani, che rappresentano un'America nuova, tributaria di quella del passato.
Nel 1974 la Warner Bros. produsse la serie televisiva remake "Giovani Cowboys" (The Cowboys) per la ABC con protagonisti Jim Davis, Diana Douglas, e Moses Gunn.
Per motivi personali e di tempi, non lo so se continuerò ad esprimere commenti scrivendo o usando solo le emoticon!
Buon anno a tutti Happy New Year!🎅🏻🎄❄☃️🦌🎃🎁🎉🍾🥂🎈🎤🎶🎆♻️🌈🫂❤🤞🏻🥳
My favorite John Wayne Movie
One of my favorite John Wayne films and an excellent score. I especially like the horn arrangement in Wil and Ann and the shades of Aaron Copeland in Crazy Alice... Happy New Year Fred!
Thank you Morlock! To a great new year!
Thanks, so much, Fred! I have heard several different versions of this score, each of them very different, yet each brilliant. There were passages in this version, early on ("The Boys" and "Wil and Ann") that had such originality.
This is my favorite Williams score, because it's less of a rip-off than, say, Star Wars (Holst) or Superman (Holst again).
But the composer is always the last man on the scene (except for Morricone, in Once Upon a Time in the West). And it was "the big cowboy" and Mark Rydell's direction, which inspired John Williams.
I won't say that this was Wayne's greatest performance--Scott Eyman maintains that his work in The Searchers was better than anything Brando ever did--but it's up there. And the restrained scene when Wil Anderson is dying, and talking to the boys about how his sons had gone bad, and he thought this might be a second chance for him, was as good as anything he ever did.
He should have been up for Best Actor. Heck, he should have been up for it about eight times!
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ON MY WORST DAY I COULD BET THE HELL OUT OF YOU ....WILL ANDERSON....I DON'T THINK SO ....LONG HAIR ....YOU WILL...WILL ANDERSON POWWWW. VERY GOOD FILM 🎥 🎞 🎦 🎬
Hi, Fred! Anyone who wants to know the real John Williams has to analyze him for his works from the 70's backwards, before being influenced by Spielberg's irritating childishness from the 80's onwards. " The Cowboys " is a great example: Williams flirts with previous exponents of essentially North American music such Copland, John Carpenter ( 1876 - 1951 ), Samuel Barber and Ferde Grofe ( especially in the arrangements for brass instruments ), but gives his particular touch ( in the strings ). " The Cowboys " is a melancholic film, but even in this characteristic its music is elegant and doesn't dispense with a feeling of grandiosity of spirit ( he is already here with his favorite orchestrator - since 1967, the Chilean Herbert Spencer ). Well... Thanks again, Fred!! See you in 23!!!
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
Good point. The Fury, Superman, The Cowboys, Poseidon and Inferno...some of the best of Williams now forgotten after his Lucas Spielberg adventures.
What nonsense. The "real" John Williams? What does that even mean? What on earth are you talking about? The guy wrote music for movies. Great music...for movies. No one listens to his other stuff. He was no Beethoven or Mahler probing the purpose of human existence, or writing great cantatas to God like Bach, or playing cat-and -mouse games with a murderous dictator like Shosty. He wrote music - for movies. Great music, throughout his career - for movies!
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Sometimes it better to not change a man
Do you take requests? Because I would love to listen to your take on Nino Rota's score for the 1978 "Death on the Nile"
We didn't feature master Rota in a while... This is a welcomed idea. Thanks and stay tuned! :-)
Fred
Ranches in montana same like
I didn't like it at all, she couldn't do it like Morricone!