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Wednesday, May 2, 2018















     Cowboy
1958  NR  WESTERN  1h 32min
CAST— Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi, Brian Donlevy, Dick York
MUSIC— George Duning  DIRECTOR— Delmer Daves  BASED ON— My Reminiscences as a Cowboy (novel), by Frank Harris

     Jack Lemmon plays it straight in this dramatic Western featuring Glenn Ford as a rough cattle driver who expects 100% out of his men. He reluctantly takes on hotel bellboy Lemmon as partner and off they go. Lemmon soon learns that being a cowboy isn’t all horseback riding and campfire songs; this is a mean business and Ford drives him like no other. Lemmon soon becomes as gruff as Ford; what’s more, he becomes cold, callous, just plain ornery. Ford sees that he’s created a monster and discovers that Lemmon has changed him in the process. Never quite as good as you want it to be, despite great performances by the leads. Still, you could do worse.
OUR RATING— ** ½
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