A John Wayne Western Led To A Short-Lived Spin-Off Starring Jim Davis

John Wayne undoubtedly became the biggest star of Hollywood’s golden age through the mythical descriptions of his Western heroes. In the 1920s and 1930s, the genre was a series of series and programmers (some of which were Duke), but they were turned into a clean cinema when John Ford made Wayn “Stagecoach” opposite Claire Trevor. UNFUSSY, but undoubtedly a magnetic actress continued a set of Western classics, which contained “Red River”, “he used a yellow ribbon”, “Rio Bravo”, “applicants” and “man who shot the Liberty Valance event”. There was no one bigger or more iconic.

Almost tea, the rise of Wayne’s career and the decline follow the traditional Hollywood -like trend. When the audience got a taste of spaghetti’s Western and Revizionism curse Filmmakers like Sam Puck And Monte Hellman, Wayne, who looked good ten years older than he was due to the battle of a loud cancer that paid him to his lungs, found herself making elegance films that anticipated the end of the era and the death of a man depicting it. Some of these films were fun (“True Grit”, from which he won the only best actor Oscar), while others were old -fashioned attacks (“Cahill Us Marshal”).

The best of this low group could have been Mark Rydell’s “Cowboys”. Based on the novel of William Dale Jennings, the film follows a group of school boys who have hired a sad old livestock farm to 400 miles to a cattle position. The film is noteworthy for two reasons: it has John Williams’ majestic Western score (three years before the field toast with “jaws”), and most importantly, it is one of the few movies where Duke was killed on the screen. And he was not just killed, he was shot by evil and the coward Bruce Dern.

The film tacitly received positive reviews, but it was a box office when Wayne needed it. And it was big enough that ABC thought it could act as a television series.

Television veteran David Dortort was more than established his Western sincerely Long -term “Bonanza” So when he took the “cowboys” of the series, it was reasonable to believe that despite the declining popularity of the genre everywhere, it might stick. Dortort wisely abandoned the nature of Waynen Wil Anderson and instead placed the sons of the character’s wife Annie (Diana Douglas). Male authority Dortort hired genreteratean Jim Davis (who continued to play Jock Ewing in “Dallas”). At the same time, Robert Carradine and Martinez were tearing up their role in the film and joined by up-and-entered Clint Howard.

“Cowboys” premiere on February 6, 1974, and its online cattle station was short after 12 episodes. Typically, the exhibition of such a pedigree would have received at least the home video of the bare bones already, but since 2025 there is nothing there. It’s not even on YouTube. I can’t tell if it has ever been presented in syndrome, but even if it was, it would probably have gone before the video recorders spread, which explains the lack of videos.

Some “Star Trek” events there would like to save the series from the twilight if you just keep the guest’s performance from DeFest Kelley. Until then, the “Cowboys” series has disappeared in the TV batch.