The Duke plays a rancher who is deserted by his regular help because
of a local gold rush and is forced to hire 11 young boys for a cattle
drive across 400 miles. Wayne's character is tough on the boys but he
moulds them into the kind of stuff hardened cowboys are made of. Of
course the boys kind of resent his hard-as-nails approach at first but
come to respect him by the end of the film. Bruce Dern plays a bit of
a villain in this movie but let's just say that the low-down dirty
varmint gets what's coming to him in the end. The movie also features
Roscoe Lee Browne and Colleen Dewhurst. No self-respecting fan of
Wayne should go without seeing this movie. |