Cowboy

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

The once-scandalous autobiography of Frank Harris was the source of the fascinating "adult" western Cowboy. Jack Lemmon plays Harris, who when first the audience meets him is a citified desk clerk in a frontier hotel. Harboring romantic notions of the West, Harris prevails upon hard-living, hard-drinking trail boss Tom Reece Glenn Ford to take him along on Reece'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 cameradie between the drovers. The film's most talked-about scene finds a group of cowboys planting a rattlesnake in one of their comrade's blankets as a joke; their regretful but oddly detached reaction when the bitten man dies speaks volumes about the Real West. Also memorable is the performance of Brian Donlevy as Doc Bender, an ageing gunfighter who can't stand the notion of becoming an anachronism. One of the more unorthodox westerns of the 1950s, Cowboy is also one of the best. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Subtitle: Mult
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 (Pre-1954 Standard)
• Audio: PCM Mono
• Screen: Pan and Scan
• Features:
  • Digitally mastered audio & video
  • Remastered in high definition
  • Full-screen presentation
  • Audio: English (mono)
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
  • Theatrical trailers
  • Interactive menus
  • Scene selections

AWARDS

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

•     Nominated Best Editing - 1958 (Al Clark, William Lyon)

• Directors Guild of America

•     Nominated Best Director - 1958 (Delmer Daves)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Jack Lemmon - Frank Harris
       Glenn Ford - Tom Reece
       Brian Donlevy - Doc Bender
       Anna Kashfi - Maria Vidal
       Dick York - Charlie
       Victor Manuel Mendoza - Mendoza
       Richard Jaeckel - Paul Curtis
       King Donovan - Joe Capper
       Vaughan Taylor - Mr. Fowler
       Don Randolph - Senor Vidal
       James Westerfield - Mike Adams
       Eugene Iglesias - Manuel Arriega
       Frank de Kova - Alcalde
       Buzz Henry - Slim Barrett
       Amapola Del Vando - Aunt
       Bek Nelson - Charlie's Girl
       William Leslie - Tucker
       Guy Wilkerson - Peggy
       Strother Martin - Trailhand

• Director:

  Delmer Daves

• Producer:

  Julian Blaustein

• Screenwriter:

  Edmund H. North, Dalton Trumbo

• Book Author:

  Frank Harris

• Cinematographer:

  Charles Lawton

• Composer (Music Score):

  George Duning

• Musical Direction/Supervision:

  Arthur Morton

• Editor:

  Al Clark, William Lyon

• Art Director:

  Cary O'Dell

• Set Designer:

  William Kiernan, James Crowe