![]() ![]() The film was released on DVD in Region 1 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on May 14, 2002. Strother Martin as Snakebite Victim (uncredited).Donald Randolph as Senor Vidal, Maria's father.Víctor Manuel Mendoza as Paco Mendoza, ramrod.Brian Donlevy as Doc Bender, trail hand.Knowing Reece has saved him, Harris snaps out of his resentful mood and suggests that the lost cattle be shared 50/50.Īt the end of the drive, they boisterously take over part of the hotel where Harris used to work, much to the surprise of his former boss. Later Reece saves Harris's life after he foolishly enters a crowded cattle car on the train where one steer is lying down and in danger of being trampled. When one of the hands, a former US marshal, kills one of his friends while drinking together and then takes his own life, Harris callously orders the men back to work. Reece offers advice, but Harris refuses to listen. Harris tells Reece that the 200 head of cattle that were lost in the stampede are all coming out of Reece's share. Reece is shot in the knee, and Harris takes over as trail boss while he recovers. At one point, Reece stampedes the herd in order to save Harris from a Comanche ambush while he is out alone rounding up strays. He becomes as callous and hostile to others as Reece had previously been to him. On the cattle drive back to Chicago, Maria's marriage eats away at Harris. Reece confronts the bull on foot so as not to endanger his horse and succeeds in the task. Harris takes up his challenge, but Reece intercedes to protect Harris from himself. During a fiesta, Arriega performs a dangerous stunt, placing a ring on a bull's horn from his horse, and challenges the Americans to do the same. When Arriega sees them together, he warns Harris to keep away. When they reach their destination, Harris is devastated to learn that Maria has been married off by her father to Don Manuel Arriega. Reece, still upset about having Harris along, continues to treat him harshly, but Harris toughens up and Reece starts taking a liking to him. Harris is upset when one of the hands is killed by a rattlesnake bite during some fooling around by two other hands. As they travel to Vidal's ranch, the cowboy life on the trail is not what Harris had envisioned. The next morning, when Harris shows up, Reece tries to renege, not wanting to burden himself with an inexperienced greenhornish tenderfoot as a partner, but Harris holds him to their deal. Reece in desperation accepts on the basis that the profits are shared 50:50. However, when Reece loses his money in a poker game, Harris sees his opportunity to better himself (and see Maria again) – he offers his entire life savings for a partnership in Reece's next drive, including his joining the drive. He makes a deal to buy cattle from Vidal in Mexico. Meanwhile, Tom Reece ( Glenn Ford), an experienced trail boss, finishes a cattle drive and takes over an entire wing of the hotel, as usual. When Señor Vidal finds out about the relationship, he orders Harris to stay away and arranges to return immediately to Mexico with his daughter. ![]() Plot įrank Harris ( Jack Lemmon) is a Chicago hotel clerk who dreams of making his fortune in the cattle business and has also fallen in love with Maria, the daughter of hotel guest and Mexican cattle baron, Señor Vidal. ![]() North and Dalton Trumbo - the latter received no screen credit at the time because he had been blacklisted as one of the Hollywood Ten. The opening animated title sequence was created by Saul Bass. This film is an adaptation of the Frank Harris semi-autobiographical novel My Reminiscences as a Cowboy. Cowboy is a 1958 American Western film directed by Delmer Daves and starring Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi and Brian Donlevy. ![]()
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