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THIS TEAM IS DEDICATED TO THE 1972 WESTERN MOVIE STARRING JOHN WAYNE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TAGLINES: All they wanted was their chance to be men...and he gave it to them. ------- The youngest was nine. There wasn't one of them over fifteen. At first, he couldn't stand the sight of them. At last, he couldn't take his eyes away. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Plot Summary: When his cattle drivers abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither Andersen nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comments from Fans: "The Cowboys" gives a solid performance by John Wayne, with excellent support from Roscoe Lee Browne and especially Bruce Dern. John Wayne plays his role well as the aging rancher who needs to get his herd on the trail and has trouble finding help. He shows softer moments than is typical for him, and seems almost wistful at times. The supporting cast of about a dozen boys who end up helping him do a pretty good job as well. When the film gets under way, the boys make you think you are in for a relatively smooth ride, but some of the later scenes get pretty intense. Browne has the somewhat trite role of a wisdom-dispensing African-American, but he does have some good lines that he does well with. Whereas many films today might downplay the issue of his skin color, "The Cowboys" has fairly realistic reactions from a variety of people to a black man working in the West. Bruce Dern comes off as one of the creepiest bad guys in a Western. In early scenes his (unnamed) character tries to pass himself off as smooth and sweet-talking, but eventually his true colors show, and he is downright scary. He has an especially frightening confrontation with one of the boys, and a wild-eyed showdown with John Wayne that really cements him as one of the worst bad guys ever played in a Western. The story is pretty much by the book, with only one big surprise in a fight near the end. It also takes a little while to get going, but by the first scene with the boys in the corral, it hums along. On the whole, a good Western with some excellent acting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QUOTES: Wil Andersen: We're burnin' daylight. ----- Wil Andersen: Slap some bacon on a biscuit and let's go! We're burnin' daylight! ----- Wil Andersen: Big mouth don't make a big man. ----- Jebediah Nightlinger: Well, I have the inclination, the maturity, and the where-with-all; but unfortunately, I don't have the time. ------ Jebediah Nightlinger: I regret trifling with married women, I'm thoroughly ashamed at cheating at cards, I deplore my occasional departures from the truth, Forgive me for taking your name in vain, my Saturday drunkenness, my Sunday Sloth. Above all, forgive me for the men I've killed in anger, and those I am about to... ------- Anse Petersen: Wil, if yer neck was any stiffer, you couldn't even bend down ta pull yer boots on! ------- [before fighting Asa Watts] Wil Andersen: I've broke my back once, and my hip twice. And on my worst day I could still beat the hell out of you. -------- Cimarron: They didn't even dig him a decent grave. Wil Andersen: Well, it's not how you're buried, it's how you're remembered. -------- Wil Andersen: Sometimes it's hard to understand the drift of things. This was a good boy. He'd have been a good man. He didn't get his chance. Death can come for ya any place, any time. It's never welcomed. But if you've done all you can do, and it's your best, in a way I guess you're ready for it. ------- Jebediah Nightlinger: This may seem a lonesome place to leave him, but he is not alone, because many of his kind rest here with him. The prairie was like a mother to Mr. Andersen. He belonged to her. She cared for him while he lived. And she is nursing him while he sleeps. ------- Wil Andersen: You know, trail driving is not Sunday school picnic. You got to figure you're dealing with the dumbest oneriest critter on God's green earth. The cow is nothing but trouble tied up in a leather bag - and the horse ain't much better. ------ Mrs. Kate Collingwood: The first time should be in the back of a buggy with a girl that they think they're in love with. ------- Hardy Fimps: I never noticed before, but most of the people I know are quiet compared to Mr. Andersen. Charles 'Slim' Honeycutt: He's quiet... it just comes out loud. ------- Stuttering Boy Wilson: Son-of-a-bitch. Wil Andersen: What did you say? Stuttering Boy Wilson: You god-damned son-of-a-bitch! Wil Andersen: Say that again. Stuttering Boy Wilson: You god-damned, mean, son-of-a-bitch! Wil Andersen: Say it faster. Stuttering Boy Wilson: You god-damned, mean, dirty, son-of-a-bitch! Wil Andersen: I wouldn't make it a habit of calling me that, son. -------- [the boys are hung-over after a night of drinking whiskey] Jedediah Nightlinger: Boys are always guilty of something nasty. What could it be this time, I wonder? -------- Wil Andersen: Now this is the way it's gonna be: I'm a man and you're boys. Not cowmen, not by a damn sight, nothing but cowboys just like the word says. And I'm gonna remind you of it every single minute of every day and night. --------- Jedediah Nightlinger: Doesn't anything larger want to work for you? -------- Wil Andersen: Now I don't hold jail against you, but I hate a liar. -------- Wil Andersen: A fool comes to town with a fistful of gold dust, and every jackass from 50 miles around lights out after him. -------- Wil Andersen: There ain't a kid in that school over fifteen. They're between hay and grass. I need men. Anse Petersen: How old was you when you went on your first cattle drive? Wil Andersen: What difference does that make? Anse Petersen: How old was you, Wil? Wil Andersen: Well, in my day... Anse Petersen: How old? Wil Andersen: Thirteen! But my old man's pants fit me! -------- Asa Watts: You're a hard man, Mr. Andersen. Wil Andersen: It's a hard life. -------- Wil Andersen: I'm proud of ya... All of ya. Every man wants his children to be better'n he was. You are.

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Flesh Ahoy	Shambling Undead	1000k	12	1/1/0	80k	1 - 0	1000k	9	1/1/0	70k	65k
Dead Army for Rookies III	Necromantic	1100k	9	2/2/0	70k	1 - 2	990k	17	1/4/0	80k	56k
Ray Jin	Chaos Dwarf	1100k	8	0/0/0	30k	1 - 2	1180k	19	2/1/1	60k	55k