HD DVD - The Look and Sound of Perfect

• Commentary by Mark Rydell

  Director Mark Rydell discusses how he helped his young, inexperienced cast work with screen legend John Wayne.

• The Cowboys: Together Again

  Bruce Dern, Roscoe Lee Brown, Robert Carradine, A Martinez, Stephen Hudis, Norman Howell and director Mark Rydell gather for a warm and intimate cast reunion.

• The Breaking of Boys and the Making of Men

  Discover what it took in 1972 for the young actors in The Cowboys to become cowboys and the cast’s real-life cowboys to become actors.

• Theatrical Trailer

“Offbeat and intriguing. Well performed and beautifully shot.” -Geoff Amdrew, Time Out Film Guide, 13th Edition
The Cowboys gave John Wayne one of his juiciest late-career roles as a leather-tough rancher who, deserted by his regular help, hires 11 greenhorn schoolboys for a cattle drive across 400 treacherous miles. “In The Cowboys,” Rex Reed wrote, “all the forces that have made him a dominant personality as well as a major screen presence seem to combine. Old Dusty Britches can act.” This exciting film co-stars the equally memorable Roscoe Lee Browne, Colleen Dewhurst and Bruce Dern.