COWBOY (DVD/P&S 1.85/MONO/ENG-FR-SP-PO-SUB) DVD

Cowboy
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, All Movie Guide

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

Crew Cary O'Dell - Art Director Delmer Daves - Director Al Clark - Editor William Lyon - Editor George Duning - Composer (Music Score) Arthur Morton - Musical Direction/Supervision Charles Lawton - Cinematographer Julian Blaustein - Producer James Crowe - Set Designer William Kiernan - Set Designer Dalton Trumbo - Screenwriter Edmund H. North - Screenwriter Frank Harris - Book Author

Cowboy
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Al Clark: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Editing (nominated) Delmer Daves: Directors Guild of America, Best Director (nominated) William Lyon: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Editing (nominated)

General Specifications: Language Options: English Subtitle Options: English, French, Spanish, Por Sound Processing: 1: PCM mono Additional 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 DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1: Pre-1954 Standard MPAA Rating: NR DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 91 min   DVD Chapters: Side #1 -- 1. Start [1:42] 2. Frank Harris [1:27] 3. Maria [3:05] 4. Tom Reece [1:20] 5. Getting Down to Business [4:00] 6. A Dreamy Idiot [4:46] 7. The Poker Game [1:14] 8. $3800 Investment [4:00] 9. "I Don't Want a Partner." [1:39] 10. Doc Bender [4:00] 11. Breaking in the Horses [3:16] 12. Saddle Sore [3:37] 13. Too Much Killing [:45] 14. Snake Bit [5:26] 15. The Funeral [4:56] 16. The Vidal Ranch [2:20] 17. Maria's Lovers [2:18] 18. Game of Cattle [5:49] 19. Mission Tryst [1:30] 20. As the Crowbar Flies [3:53] 21. Playing by the Rules [5:34] 22. Indians [3:48] 23. Stampede! [2:55] 24. Harris Takes Over [1:52] 25. Teaching Manners [1:56] 26. "Doc Bender's Dead!" [5:26] 27. Tired of Burying People [5:23] 28. Cowboy [2:10]