- HD 1080
- Runtime: 92m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Delmer Daves
- Stars: Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi, Brian Donlevy, Dick York
- keywords: hotel, chicago, illinois, mexico, based on novel or book, forbidden love, cattle drive, native american attack, train, poker game, loan, snake bite, cattle ranch, business partner, tenderfoot, improbable friendship, cattlemen, cattle stampede
- Production_studio: Columbia Pictures, Phoenix Productions
- Slogan: THE REAL, TRUE STORY OF THE WEST!
- The Cowboy is featured in the top rankings of 1958
- #17 in Top Western Movies of 1958
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...