71%User score 71 percent
The Cowboys
1972 · Western · Adventure
User Score
1.2K votes
No place to run. No reason to hide.
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
Recommendations based on this film
John Chard
July 1, 2017
I ain't going to meet my maker without knowing your real name. It's purely my own opinion of course, but Open Range is a modern day genre classic that stands up to repeat viewings. It's not a flawless Western the Western historians will tell you, and some will pick out the hats or the impact of a rifle to mark the film down, but really we should be embracing a genre piece in the modern age that is clearly being direc…
Read the full review on TMDBJohn Chard
July 2, 2017
I ain't going to meet my maker without knowing your real name. It's purely my own opinion of course, but Open Range is a modern day genre classic that stands up to repeat viewings. It's not a flawless Western the Western historians will tell you, and some will pick out the hats or the impact of a rifle to mark the film down, but really we should be embracing a genre piece in the modern age that is clearly being direc…
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Wuchak
March 14, 2021
**_Now THIS is a Western_** Four cowboys & their cattle are traveling through the Hammondville, Montana, region in 1882 when they discover that the leaders of the town don’t like free grazers. It escalates into a life or death situation. Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner play the two main cowboys while Annette Bening appears as a doctor and Michael Gambon a land baron. “Open Range” (2003) automatically brings to mind “…
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CinemaSerf
May 1, 2026
It turns out that local cattleman "Baxter" (Michael Gambon) is not a fan of free-grazers who take their herds across the country snacking on the grass along the way. This proves troublesome for "Boss" (Robert Duvall) and his pals "Charley" (Kevin Costner), "Mose" (Abraham Benrubi) and the corn-green "Button" (Diego Luna). This enmity becomes clear to the travellers when "Mose" sets off into town to buy some victuals…
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