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This sturdy Delmer Daves picture--his third with Glenn Ford, following Jubal and 3:10 to Yuma--is one of the most offbeat Westerns ever. And it must be the most writerly, 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, etc. 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
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"Cowboy (1958) ... Glenn Ford & Jack Lemmon ... Delmer Daves (Director) (2002)",
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Columbia Pictures presents "COWBOY" (1958 92 min/Color) -- Starring: Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi, Brian Donlevy, Dick York & Richard JaeckelDirected by Delmer Daves Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris (Jack Lemmon) harbors romantic notions of the West and prevails upon hard-living, hard-drinking trail boss Tom Reese (Glenn Ford) to take him along on Reese's next cattle drive. In the months that follow, Harris' idealized notions of the West are cruelly dispelled, though he eventually becomes accustomed to the rough-and-tumble life on the trail and to the curious camaraderie between the drovers The once-scandalous autobiography of Frank Harris was the source of the fascinating "adult" western Cowboy. Note the memorable performance of Hollywood veteran Brian Donlevy as Doc Bender, an aging gunfighter who can't stand the notion of becoming an anachronism. One of the more unorthodox westerns of the 1950s, but also one of the best. Oscar Nominated for Best Film Editing BIOS: 1. Delmer Daves [Director] Date of Birth: 24 July 1904 - San Francisco, California Date of Death: 17 August 1977 - La Jolla, California 2. Glenn Ford (aka: Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford) Date of Birth: 1 May 1916 - Sainte-Christine, Quebec, Canada Date of Death: 30 August 2006 - Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California 3. Jack Lemmon Date of Birth: 8 February 1925 - Newton, Massachusetts Date of Death: 27 June 2001 - Los Angeles, California 4. Anna Kashfi [aka: Joan O'Callaghan] Date of Birth: 30 September 1934 - Cardiff, Wales, UK Date of Death: Unknown 5. Brian Donlevy Date of Birth: 9 February 1901 - Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland Date of Death: 5 April 1972 - Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California 6. Richard Jaeckel Date of Birth: 10 October 1926 - Long Beach, Long Island, New York Date of Death: 14 June 1997 - Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California 7. Dick York Date of Birth: 4 September 1928 - Fort Wayne, Indiana Date of Death: 20 February 1992 - Grand Rapids, Michigan Mr. Jim's Ratings: Quality of Picture & Sound: 5 Stars Performance: 5 Stars Story & Screenplay: 5 Stars Overall: 5 Stars [Original Music, Cinematography & Film Editing] Total Time: 92 min on DVD ~ Columbia Pictures ~ (May 14, 2002)
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Rafael Mendez,
By Rocco man (Boston MA, sometimes texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cowboy (DVD)
I like that Mr.Mendez. He can really play that horn. Hot i tell you.. hot! Anyways folks, I recommend that you awll buy this fantastic root in tootin' slam here footin' horse riding shootin' movie! You'll love it and as for Mendez. He is the greatest.
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How could they release this in Pan & Scan????,
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This review is from: Cowboy (DVD)
This is a wonderful look at the "real" West for a change; warts and all. BUT, and it is a big BUT, it needs to be seen as originally filmed not cut for television. Neverthless I'll keep this copy and then buy it again when it is released in Widescreen. Why do those who support the rights of directors and complain when someone "messes" with "their" product think nothing of chopping a film to fit a televion screen.
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