Cowboy

*Spoilers* What begins as a standard B-Western (with an admittedly unlikely starring duo) becomes a compelling examination of ethics and morality in the American Western. Both Ford and Lemmon are excellent, with an unusually cast Lemmon surprisingly playing his role completely straight. An unconvincing romantic subplot that goes nowhere and is abruptly dropped is a debit, and the final recounciliation between the two leads feels false, otherwise a finely produced and directed western entry.

Intriguing setup that unfortunately doesn't really go anywhere. By the time we were reunited with the love interest I was already looking past that plotline. Then the movie just goes by-the-numbers to the ending which didn't really feel earned. And what's with the crazy cockroach shooting inside of hotels? Fav scene: all the wide-angle typical western shots including at the trainyard in Chicago.

A different slant on the typical Western narrative of the time,that doesn't really go anywhere.

This was really hard to rank: for the most part it was a psychological film about two men, but in the end Daves let's You think it was all about the daily life of cowboys. Nethertheless the two performances were great - especially Lemmon.

Como nasce um bravo estreava há 65 anos em Oklahoma. Frank Harris teve uma vida absolutamente fascinante, não por acaso o Delmer Davis colocou um ator que pouco tem a ver com westerns para interpretá-lo, nosso gênio Jack Lemmon, que dá a devida medida do homem do mundo perdido entre um curral e outro. Box Versátil Cinema Faroeste: Delmer Davis.

Early Jack Lemmon performance that is very different in a good way from some of his later ones. He often doesn't get enough credit for being a great actor. Glenn Ford is also good in this well made western from the underrated Delmer Daves.

It was exceptional casting that placed Jack Lemmon in the role of a man driven by love to become a cattleman. The myth of the western Coyboy is at play throughout this film. It's this persona of Cowboy as created by Hollywood that makes this movie fun to watch.

Great performance by Ford and Lemmon makes this movie work.

What starts out as a "fish-out-of-water" western seems to take a completely different turn; it's almost as if one screenwriter wrote the hotel scenes as comedy, and a different one wrote the trail-riding scenes as drama. There are a lot of sudden, jarring character shifts that don't make much sense, even though Ford and Lemmon try to make the most of their roles.

It's a western they told me but it's actually about two dudes being in love

An effective--and unusual--western about a couple of tenderfeet.

Refreshing, generally entertaining western story

Total failure. Even Saul Bass's title sequence is far worse than any other of his I have seen