
After his cowhands desert him for a nearby gold rush ageing leather-tough rancher Will Anderson (John Wayne) resorts to hiring 11 schoolboys to help him on a 400-mile cattle run Setting off with the boys & an eloquent but equally tough black cook (Roscoe Lee Browne) Anderson must get his cattle to their destination while contending with the wilderness & a psychotic vengeful ex-con (Bruce Dern) who is out to get him With an amazingly natural performance by Wayne this stylized action-packed Western is exquisitely filmed emotionally sensitive & highly entertaining Commentary By Director Mark Rydell New Cast Director Reunion Featurette The Cowboys Together Again Vintage Featurette The Breaking Of Boys & The Making Of Men Trailer Languages Emglish Castilian Spanish German Italian Subtitles English Castilian Spanish Danish Finnish German Italian Norwegian Portuguese Swedish Approx Run Time 135 Mins