In this movie, Bruce Dern defined the term villain. He's said that for years after making the picture people would see him on the street and spit at him or throw things. Bruce even frightened the boys through his method style of acting. This is one of my favorite "John Wayne" movies.
Dern was destined for greatness and you could see his brilliance in all the Westerns of the day, especially Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Big Valley, the list goes on and on. He transformed hour TV shows into something very special. He was just so good at being bad. One show he was brilliant in and underused with Matt Damon was All the Pretty Horses, and he was a good guy!
Dern commented Wayne that came on the set drunk for their fight scene, and him getting thrown against the tree was for real, because Wayne hated the scene, and as a result, had to have multiple back surgeries that he has never fully recover from.
Mr. Nightlinger was great in this, and his confessional at the end was so awesome. "Forgive me for the men I have killed in anger and for those I'm about to." Savage!
Roscoe Lee Brown always turns in a fine performance. Will never forget his scene stuck in an elevator with Archie Bunker and a pregnant woman about to deliver from the 1970's!
I saw the Cowboys in the theater when I was 8 years old. I love this movie! You would never see them do this with child actors nowadays. 11 kids half were actors half were real Cowboys. They all had to learn become the other one. There is a 50th Anniversary reunion of the kids on RUclips I highly recommend you watching it!! It's an incredible story these kids bonded for life. They're all still super close to this day! Two of the actor kids quit acting and became real cowboys after this movie.
To see the hero die for the first time was a shock! As a child of the 70s I found in the early 70s all the movie heroes were dying on screen and off. Then in 1977 I got the movies greatest Hero. Harrison Ford.@@allenwhitmer8192
that's super to hear - I'll have to check it out. I loved this film although not a big JW Western fan - my favorites of him are Donovan's Reef, Hatari!, In Harm's Way, The Quiet Man, etc. Dick Cavett, who was no fan of JW, critiqued this film and said, "The old man can actually act!"
I absolutely loved the look on your face when Bruce Dern killed John Wayne's character. It was genuine and that's what I look for from reactors. It was perfect. You will find that John Wayne, like several other big movie stars at that time, died in several of their movies. John Williams score was great and Roscoe Lee Browne (Mr Nightlinger) was awesome. He was also a great actor. Thanks so much for genuine emotion throughout your reactions.
William Atherton, who played Walter Peck, the EPA bureaucrat villain in "Ghostbusters" & the TV reporter jerk in "Die Hard", said, when he'd go out, people would were always giving him Hell or trying to fight him, after playing those roles. Bruce Dern suffered the same fate after "The Cowboys".
Madison, for fun check out the 50th anniversary video on the Cowboys. It was a reunion in 2020 with most of the boys at the John Wayne museum in Ft Worth. Moderated by Ethan Wayne. It is on RUclips in two parts. Lots of great stories.
Oh thank you Madison for reacting to this! John Wayne rarely died in his films. This one reverberated so much in popular opinion, Bruce Dern ( Longhair) a freaking brilliant actor could not be cast for nearly 15 years in Hollywood. True Story. Thanks again . Next poll , I'm voting " Big Jake". Thank you❤!!
@@waterbeauty85 I love all eras of John Wayne, but True Grit, Big Jake, The Cowboys, Rio Bravo, and The Shootist...will always be special to me. These were the movies, as a child in the 70s, that me and my dad, ( who passed two years ago at 78) on Saturday mornings, would watch on Turner Broadcast. (TBS) ...
This and "The Longest Day" (WW2 movie) were my favorite John Wayne movies. Bruce Dern was on The Tonight Show around then, promoting the movie. He recalled what Wayne told him after filming that infamous scene. He said, "When this movie comes out, you're gonna be the most hated man in America". Amazingly, Bruce Dern was going back and forth between locations, filming a great Sci-Fi movie at the same time. "Silent Running" He plays a much more likable character. A passionate environmental scientist trying to save the last surviving forests of Earth. But in SPACE. He is SO good in that one. GREAT actor.
Likeable? He murders three other guys in that movie! He's a full-on Psycho who, yes, has a sympathetic cause , , , but not one that excuses his actions,
I saw The Cowboys in the theater when I was 9 years old and like most I hated Bruce Dern's character. Subconsciously I disliked Dern for years because of that role, until I saw Dern in All The Pretty Horses as the sympathetic Judge who encounters Matt Damon at the end of the film. That small role redeemed Dern in my heart; he was so patient, calm and understanding while listening to Damon's character, and essentially pardoned him for what he did.
I’m a Texas History teacher and every year I show this movie to my students after our Cotton, Cattle and Railroads unit. It is such a classic and one of my absolutely favorite westerns! The first time I saw it I was so shocked to see John Wayne’s character die.
This and "The Big Trail" are my two favorite John Wayne movies. My parents took me to see this when it came out, at a big old-fashioned theater with one very wide curved screen. I sat front row center and felt like I was inside the movie.
Madison, glad you enjoyed it - but there was never any doubt! At some point go back to Join Wayne's start with the 1930 epic"The Big Trail" filmed in five states, but the most powerful Wayne films of his later career besides "The Cowboys" are "The Alamo" 1960 which he produced himself, "The Green Berets" 1968, "Big Jake" 1972, "The Shootist" 1976.
MADISON - John Wayne movie you've GOT to watch - "The Shootist." His last film, in which his character is dying of cancer, and DUKE was also dying of cancer in real life while he filmed it. Co-starring Jimmy Stewart, Richard Boone, Hugh O'Brien, John Carradine, Ron Howard and the Great Lauren Bacall.
I've seen this movie so many times, but still tear up with some of those scenes. On the show called "A Word On Westerns" there was a reunion of some of those 'boys' not senior citizens. They cried for real in the scene in which John Wayne's character is dying. I very much appreciated your reaction, and especially your words afterwards, Thank you.
I don't know of any reaction channel on YT that has covered this great movie, looking forward to this!. The actor who plays the villain, Bruce Dern, in real life is the nicest soul you could ever meet which says alot about his acting ability.
@@olaspaz3079 yea, shes seen several J Wayne films inc Stagecoach &The Quiet man. SHe loved the Clint Eastwood westerns and still needs to see the DIrty harry ones
I remember seeing this in the theatre. When they buried the Duke a good third of the audience (me included) got up and started to leave thinking that, with him dead, the movie was over.
One of the best John Wayne movies ever! Great cast in this one! Bruce dern, Roscoe Brown, A. Martinez, Slim Pickens and of course JW! Great score and cinematography! Saw this as a kid and will forever fell like a kid when I watch this movie! Thanks Madison ! Luv the hat❤🤠. We're burning daylight! 🤠❤️💛
I can’t tell you how much I enjoy your reactions, especially to the classic westerns. Your coverage of Lonesome Dove was really great. I’ve been asking other reactors to cover LD as it is such a great show. Please keep up the great work.
I was 12 when The Cowboys came out. I didn't get to see movies at the theater as a kid, until several years later with friends. My parents were old school Irish immigrants and had no use for movies whatsoever. But I did see this as soon as it was available for television. In those days they would premier films on a movie of the week network broadcast. I am guessing that was in 1973. I thought the movie was just great, loads of fun for a kid to see kids in a John Wayne western.
I love this movie. One my favorites with John Wayne. So so good!! Another great John Wayne flick is "Hatari". Bruce Dern was the long haired bad guy. Always played that type of character. Bad guy or tough guy.
My favorite scene is John Wayne's speech therapy session 😊 The last line " I wouldn't make habit of calling me that son." If notice Cimiron and Slim are still acting. A Martinez and Robert Carradine, yeah that that Carradine family.
The Big Country, with starring Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford and Chuck Connors. Directed by William Wyler (Roman Holiday).
@@infonutAgreed, great movie and even greater score, would love to see Madison react to it. Don't know if I've ever seen a reaction to it on RUclips, the movie's length might make it tough to chop into the limited bit they let you show.
I was in middle school in the mid 70s when I saw this. Back then, they occasionally had assemblies at school where they showed movies during the school day. This was one of them, and I loved it. I’m guessing I was the age of many of the boys in the movie.
I always loved the part when Nightlinger discribes how to make an apple pie, and his final words to the ladies, as well as making piece with his maker. One of my favorite characters in any western.
This is my favorite of the late John Wayne westerns. It had a big impact- being a kid in 73 imagining a cattle drive with Duke Wayne. My all time Wayne picture, isn't a western, it's one of John Ford's love letters to the WW2 Navy that he served in: They Were Expendable.
There is a wonderful RUclips page called A Word On Westerns that has a fantastic video with ALL of the kids that played the trail hands in this movie...all grown up! They are all together for the anniversary of the movie and talk about filming with Wayne and all the behind the scenes things that happened. It is a WONDERFUL interview. Did you notice that the oldest boy that followed them (the gun and knife boy) was played by AJ Martinez?! Or that the 15 year old boy that was the first one to jump on the green broken horse is Robert Carradine?!
I was ten when this came out, seen it at the drive-in theater with my folks. I grew up working on our family farm in Iowa, I like to think this film helped in instilling me the work ethic that my dad always taught us five brothers. Outstanding reaction video, thank you for sharing
A testament to Bruce Dern's acting that you hated him so much. Not many Wayne villains are remembered like this one. When they filmed this, Wayne told him, "people are going to hate you for this" and Dern responded (it was the 60s) "They'll love me in Berkely." He really is a fine actor. He was nominated for Best Actor just a couple of years ago for, "Nebraska"
I was 5 years old when this movie came out and it has been one of my favorites ever since, I'm glad that Mr. Wayne has passed on and can't see what has happened to this nation that he loved so much. May he R.I.P.
Legend says that John Wayne told Bruce Dern, just before they filmed the death scene, "you're about to become the most hated man in America." He wasn't wrong. Bruce Dern got hate mail for YEARS after this movie.
I have always loved this movie since I was little. I like it even though it is one of few movies that John died in. Great reaction Lady Madison, love your outfit the whole setup super hat, cool shirt and jeans with lovely hair so way to go.
Fun fact: the 2nd rustler killed (by Cimarron with his knife) was played by Richard Farnsworth. Farnsworth had a long career in Hollywood in bit parts, mainly Westerns. More notable was his portrayal of baseball coach Red Blow in The Natural. He was also known for playing Matthew Cuthbert in the PBS series Anne of Green Gables.
Little Big Man is an American film directed by Arthur Penn released in 1970. It was entered into the National Film Registry in 2014 to be preserved in the Library of Congress. The film is adapted from the novel Memoirs of a Pale Face (“Little Big Man”) by Thomas Berger, published in 1964. 121-year-old Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) looks back on his past and tells a historian (William Hickey) about his adventurous life, since he was adopted by the Cheyenne in the 1860s when he was just a young child, until his participation in the defeat of General Custer (Richard Mulligan) at the Battle of Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876, through his association with the adventurer and sharpshooter Wild Bill Hickok
Hi Madison. Great reaction. I am so glad you got around to seeing this. Didn't look back to see what you have already watched the Duke in, but going to leave you a few suggestio,ns. McClintock (with Maureen O'Hara), Big Jake (also with Maureen), The Shootist, Since you liked Rio Bravo you should try El Dorado (with Robert Mitchum and James Caan). For a couple of John Wayne non-westerns try The Quiet Man (Maureen again) and a older movie he did with Donna Reed called Trouble along the Way. I must have seen them each at least a dozen times, but I would still watch you react to them. Hope you get a chance to watch and enjoy! Stay safe and well.
I saw this as a kid, with the fam; Dad was a western fan! But a couple of years ago the Lone Pine Film Festival screened this because Robert Carradine was a festival guest. Great to see this on the big screen, and I’ve been crushing on A Martinez for 50 years!!! 😍
Please give the Star Trek franchise a chance. You don't have to watch everything. Maybe: top ten Classic episodes = Star Trek 1 to 6 = top ten "The Next Generation" episodes = Star Trek 7 to 10 = the three J.J. Abrams Star Trek movies? ✌️
While I am a lifetime Trek fan - I watched the original series on a black and white console TV in the 60s, I have to draw the line at JJ Abrams. I literally hate those for being just a CGI fest. He completely butchers the Star Trek storylines just to make hours of explosions with a hacked up storyline.
@@gitchegumeeI can accept this, but you also have to realize that the new films have given Star Trek many new fans who otherwise would not have been interested in this franchise. Many then learned to love the older series and films. Personally, I can enjoy any version of Star Trek.
@@martinbraun1211 If he had stuck to Trek canon and just freshened up the story for modern audiences (short attention spans and need to action over story) then I could get into them more. It just seems to me Abrams made these without any knowledge of the franchise and he based his script on someone telling him some backstories - in Chinese, so he just winged the storylines.
Thanks for finally watching this classic western. Would love for you to check out his final movie The Shootist. Also, check out the highly overlooked Paul Newman western Hombre from 1967. Thanks a bunch Madison.
Half the boys were actors, the other half actually grew up on ranches. The actors went to riding school for a couple months. By the time they shot the movie they could all ride a horse well. Robert Carradine (Slim) was on Word on Westerns (youtube channel) where he gives a good story on making this movie and meeting John Wayne.
Thank you, Madison! One of my favorite movie reviews. This was my first western as a boy. I will have to see if you reacted to either of the "True Grit" movies.
My Aunt cried when John Wayne got shot in 1972. As a kid I always thought that was silly. It's just a movie after all! 60 years later and now I cry every time I see this movie. I don't feel silly about it anymore.
Great reaction!!! Your favorite guy in this movie is still around. Bruce Dern has been in several of Quentin Tarantino's movies. He was the slave owner with the yellow glasses that sells Django away from his wife at the beginning of Django, and he was the Southern officer in The Hateful Eight (the first one killed).
Took me years to get over Bruce Dern's (Laura Dern's father BTW) character in this movie. Whenever I saw him in another film I would get angry and assume he was the villain whether he was or not. He played that cowardly weasel perfectly.
Madison, you are a hoot 😅 . My favorite line, when (bald headed) Nightlinger is about to be hanged, "If you harm one hair on that old man's head..."😮😅😂
Madison, Fantastic reaction. This is the second time I've watched you react to this. Great Job, your reactions are always great. Some that come to mind (and I know I may forget a few) are Jerimia Johnson, Rear Window, Ben Hur, and It's a Wonderful Life. Steven
03:59 "Henry Bigelow is 60 years old, Wil." I saw this film when it came out in 1972. I was 9 years old then. Now, I'm a year older than Wil Andersen and Henry Bigelow. Jesus!
This movie has choked me up since I was seven when it came out. My dad took the family to see it on base in Taiwan where we were stationed and yes for several years afterwards I couldn't stand Bruce Dern even though he was a pretty big star through the 70s. Great reaction as always.
Such an epic, and I was a Freshman in HS when this premiered in theaters. Hated Bruce Dern for years, and used Mr. Nightlinger quotes even longer! Roscoe Lee Browne was a National Treasure.
My favorite John Wayne movie is his very last one. The Shootist. That one has Jimmy Stewart, Ron Howard, Lauren Bacall, Henry Morgan, and quite few big name actors in it. Hopefully you will get to watch that one.
I can't remember exactly when, but "The Cowboys" was turned into a TV program with some of the original boys, including Robert Carradine and A Martinez. The show was actually pretty good, but sadly lasted only a couple of seasons. I don't know if the show ended because of low ratings or if the boys grew up too quickly.
I don't know how you are about adding the element of Science Fiction into your Westerns, but a great movie that incorporates both Sci-Fi and Westerns is "Cowboys & Aliens." It answers the age old question, "How would people in the Old West fight off an invasion of alien beings?" It stars Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones series), Daniel Craig (James Bond series), Sam Rockwell (The Green Mile, Iron Man II), Adam Beach (Joe Dirt, Windtalkers), and Olivia Wilde (House).
Half the boys were Hollywood kids who could act, but needed some extra riding lessons. The other half were ranch kids who had grown up on horseback, but needed some acting lessons.
Watched this at a drive-in as a kid, and that started my 40-year hatred of Bruce Dern. John Wayne told him at the time that people would hate him. As for me and my siblings, he was right. FYI: with therapy, I was able to get over it...😁
I was 12 when this came out. It's no mystery why I grew up wanting to be a cowboy. I only managed a couple cows for my own family and didn't start getting horses for my girls until I was in my late 30's. Better late than never.
This movie, The Magnificent Seven, Rio Bravo, High Noon, and Silverado are, in my opinion, some of the best Western movies ever made. Plenty of other great ones as well, Rooster Cogburn, True Grit, McLintock and so on, but still, the one's I listed are my favorites. Maybe I should move McLintock into the first list, Maureen O'Hara is a great actress. Thanks for the review, it was very enjoyable. Was waiting for your reaction when he said, "Forgive me for the men I have killed in anger, and for the men I'm about to..." and wasn't disappointed.
I was a little younger than the boys portrayed in this movie when I saw it in the theatre with my dad (I was about 10). Probably still mad at Bruce Dern to this day. That intro music is used for those commercials promoting beef, and a version of it sounds like it was used in "Stripes".
When they came to shoot the scene where Mr. Anderson gets killed John Wayne warned Bruce Dern that millions of people will hate him. Dern replied, "Yeah, but they'll love me in Berkeley!"
Thx for your reaction I was traumatized seeing Bruce Dern''s character in this show I was young. He has played creepy roles his whole career. I can't remeber ever seeing him where i was smpathetic to him. He played old man Spahn in the ranch scene in Tarantino's, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
In this movie, Bruce Dern defined the term villain. He's said that for years after making the picture people would see him on the street and spit at him or throw things. Bruce even frightened the boys through his method style of acting. This is one of my favorite "John Wayne" movies.
Bruce Dern, a fantastic actor. Check out Silent Running, another great movie starring Dern.
Bruce Dern is the father of Laura Dern from Jurassic Park movie.
Dern was destined for greatness and you could see his brilliance in all the Westerns of the day, especially Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Big Valley, the list goes on and on. He transformed hour TV shows into something very special. He was just so good at being bad. One show he was brilliant in and underused with Matt Damon was All the Pretty Horses, and he was a good guy!
Dern commented Wayne that came on the set drunk for their fight scene, and him getting thrown against the tree was for real, because Wayne hated the scene, and as a result, had to have multiple back surgeries that he has never fully recover from.
Yeah the scene where he's roughing up the kid with glasses in the water, I'm guessing Dern told the boy that he would actually be throwing him around.
Mr. Nightlinger was great in this, and his confessional at the end was so awesome. "Forgive me for the men I have killed in anger and for those I'm about to." Savage!
Roscoe Lee Brown always turns in a fine performance. Will never forget his scene stuck in an elevator with Archie Bunker and a pregnant woman about to deliver from the 1970's!
I saw the Cowboys in the theater when I was 8 years old. I love this movie! You would never see them do this with child actors nowadays. 11 kids half were actors half were real Cowboys. They all had to learn become the other one. There is a 50th Anniversary reunion of the kids on RUclips I highly recommend you watching it!! It's an incredible story these kids bonded for life. They're all still super close to this day! Two of the actor kids quit acting and became real cowboys after this movie.
Same here, I was 8, cried when John Wayne died, Bruce Dern scared the hell out of me, along with that music they played when he was around!
To see the hero die for the first time was a shock! As a child of the 70s I found in the early 70s all the movie heroes were dying on screen and off. Then in 1977 I got the movies greatest Hero. Harrison Ford.@@allenwhitmer8192
that's super to hear - I'll have to check it out. I loved this film although not a big JW Western fan - my favorites of him are Donovan's Reef, Hatari!, In Harm's Way, The Quiet Man, etc. Dick Cavett, who was no fan of JW, critiqued this film and said, "The old man can actually act!"
I absolutely loved the look on your face when Bruce Dern killed John Wayne's character. It was genuine and that's what I look for from reactors. It was perfect. You will find that John Wayne, like several other big movie stars at that time, died in several of their movies. John Williams score was great and Roscoe Lee Browne (Mr Nightlinger) was awesome. He was also a great actor. Thanks so much for genuine emotion throughout your reactions.
William Atherton, who played Walter Peck, the EPA bureaucrat villain in "Ghostbusters" & the TV reporter jerk in "Die Hard", said, when he'd go out, people would were always giving him Hell or trying to fight him, after playing those roles. Bruce Dern suffered the same fate after "The Cowboys".
This was one of John Wayne's last films he had made. His final movie appearance was THE SHOOTIST in 1976. He passed away in 1979 from lung cancer.
I hope Madison reacts to "The Shootist" soon.
Stomach cancer. He had lung cancer in the 60's.
The Shootist is a fitting movie for his last. The Western is what got his career off and he ends it with a Western.
Love John Wayne ❤️. I still cry every time he dies in this movie😢. And i cried when he died in real life😢. What a legend 🙏💖.
Madison, for fun check out the 50th anniversary video on the Cowboys. It was a reunion in 2020 with most of the boys at the John Wayne museum in Ft Worth. Moderated by Ethan Wayne. It is on RUclips in two parts. Lots of great stories.
Oh thank you Madison for reacting to this! John Wayne rarely died in his films. This one reverberated so much in popular opinion, Bruce Dern ( Longhair) a freaking brilliant actor could not be cast for nearly 15 years in Hollywood. True Story.
Thanks again . Next poll , I'm voting " Big Jake". Thank you❤!!
I always feel like "The Cowboys" and "Big Jake" make a great double feature.
@@waterbeauty85 I love all eras of John Wayne, but True Grit, Big Jake, The Cowboys, Rio Bravo, and The Shootist...will always be special to me. These were the movies, as a child in the 70s, that me and my dad, ( who passed two years ago at 78) on Saturday mornings, would watch on Turner Broadcast. (TBS) ...
the chief of the bandits, Bruce Dern, is the father of Laura Dern, who played the paleontologist in "Jurassic Park"
I always think of Silent Running when I see him!
@@shakes525and Donald Duck's 3 nephews.
I thought; he was Laura Dern's brother? Did he name a daughter after his sister?
@rollmops7948 My mistake. Bruce was older than I thought, & Laura was younger, than I thought.
This and "The Longest Day" (WW2 movie) were my favorite John Wayne movies. Bruce Dern was on The Tonight Show around then, promoting the movie. He recalled what Wayne told him after filming that infamous scene. He said, "When this movie comes out, you're gonna be the most hated man in America". Amazingly, Bruce Dern was going back and forth between locations, filming a great Sci-Fi movie at the same time. "Silent Running" He plays a much more likable character. A passionate environmental scientist trying to save the last surviving forests of Earth. But in SPACE. He is SO good in that one. GREAT actor.
Likeable? He murders three other guys in that movie! He's a full-on Psycho who, yes, has a sympathetic cause , , , but not one that excuses his actions,
I saw The Cowboys in the theater when I was 9 years old and like most I hated Bruce Dern's character. Subconsciously I disliked Dern for years because of that role, until I saw Dern in All The Pretty Horses as the sympathetic Judge who encounters Matt Damon at the end of the film. That small role redeemed Dern in my heart; he was so patient, calm and understanding while listening to Damon's character, and essentially pardoned him for what he did.
John Way defined my childhood, his movies were a family event.
Mr Nightlinger was such a well written character, and of course such a stand out performance by the actor. One of my favorite John Wayne movies.
I’m a Texas History teacher and every year I show this movie to my students after our Cotton, Cattle and Railroads unit. It is such a classic and one of my absolutely favorite westerns! The first time I saw it I was so shocked to see John Wayne’s character die.
This and "The Big Trail" are my two favorite John Wayne movies. My parents took me to see this when it came out, at a big old-fashioned theater with one very wide curved screen. I sat front row center and felt like I was inside the movie.
Madison, glad you enjoyed it - but there was never any doubt! At some point go back to Join Wayne's start with the 1930 epic"The Big Trail" filmed in five states, but the most powerful Wayne films of his later career besides "The Cowboys" are "The Alamo" 1960 which he produced himself, "The Green Berets" 1968, "Big Jake" 1972, "The Shootist" 1976.
MADISON - John Wayne movie you've GOT to watch - "The Shootist." His last film, in which his character is dying of cancer, and DUKE was also dying of cancer in real life while he filmed it. Co-starring Jimmy Stewart, Richard Boone, Hugh O'Brien, John Carradine, Ron Howard and the Great Lauren Bacall.
John Carradine that was in The Shootist was Robert Carradine's ('Slim' in The Cowboys) father.
I've seen this movie so many times, but still tear up with some of those scenes. On the show called "A Word On Westerns" there was a reunion of some of those 'boys' not senior citizens. They cried for real in the scene in which John Wayne's character is dying.
I very much appreciated your reaction, and especially your words afterwards, Thank you.
One of my all time favorites! Thanks for the reaction. You can't go wrong with The Duke!
Bruce Dern, Laura Dern's dad, was a memorable heavy in '60s TV episodes. His frightening blue eyes and high, light voice helped put his menace over.
Thank you for your reaction, Madison. This is one of my all-time favorite movies.
I don't know of any reaction channel on YT that has covered this great movie, looking forward to this!. The actor who plays the villain, Bruce Dern, in real life is the nicest soul you could ever meet which says alot about his acting ability.
Dawn Marie did it. And true grit. Give her a try.
@@olaspaz3079 yea, shes seen several J Wayne films inc Stagecoach &The Quiet man. SHe loved the Clint Eastwood westerns and still needs to see the DIrty harry ones
I remember seeing this in the theatre. When they buried the Duke a good third of the audience (me included) got up and started to leave thinking that, with him dead, the movie was over.
"I have a bad feeling about this." I SAW IT!!!
One of the best John Wayne movies ever! Great cast in this one! Bruce dern, Roscoe Brown, A. Martinez, Slim Pickens and of course JW! Great score and cinematography! Saw this as a kid and will forever fell like a kid when I watch this movie! Thanks Madison ! Luv the hat❤🤠. We're burning daylight! 🤠❤️💛
I can’t tell you how much I enjoy your reactions, especially to the classic westerns. Your coverage of Lonesome Dove was really great. I’ve been asking other reactors to cover LD as it is such a great show. Please keep up the great work.
I was 12 when The Cowboys came out. I didn't get to see movies at the theater as a kid, until several years later with friends. My parents were old school Irish immigrants and had no use for movies whatsoever. But I did see this as soon as it was available for television. In those days they would premier films on a movie of the week network broadcast. I am guessing that was in 1973. I thought the movie was just great, loads of fun for a kid to see kids in a John Wayne western.
I love this movie. One my favorites with John Wayne. So so good!! Another great John Wayne flick is "Hatari". Bruce Dern was the long haired bad guy. Always played that type of character. Bad guy or tough guy.
Bruce Dern was married to actress Diane Ladd and has two children, Laura Dern also an actress who was in Jurassic Park.
Funny your reaction to Dern Killing Wayne is exactly what Wayne said to Dern at the time "oh how they're gonna hate you for this"
My favorite scene is John Wayne's speech therapy session 😊 The last line " I wouldn't make habit of calling me that son." If notice Cimiron and Slim are still acting. A Martinez and Robert Carradine, yeah that that Carradine family.
The Big Country, with starring Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford and Chuck Connors. Directed by William Wyler (Roman Holiday).
This movie has it all. Sights, sounds, shooting, riding and fisticuffs.
@@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710... AND the BEST western score put on film. Raises goosebumps.
@@infonut Yes, oops I left out the musical score.
@@infonutAgreed, great movie and even greater score, would love to see Madison react to it. Don't know if I've ever seen a reaction to it on RUclips, the movie's length might make it tough to chop into the limited bit they let you show.
I was in middle school in the mid 70s when I saw this. Back then, they occasionally had assemblies at school where they showed movies during the school day. This was one of them, and I loved it. I’m guessing I was the age of many of the boys in the movie.
I always loved the part when Nightlinger discribes how to make an apple pie, and his final words to the ladies, as well as making piece with his maker. One of my favorite characters in any western.
This is my favorite of the late John Wayne westerns. It had a big impact- being a kid in 73 imagining a cattle drive with Duke Wayne.
My all time Wayne picture, isn't a western, it's one of John Ford's love letters to the WW2 Navy that he served in: They Were Expendable.
One of my favorite John Wayne movies , any movies for that matter. Great stuff.
There is a wonderful RUclips page called A Word On Westerns that has a fantastic video with ALL of the kids that played the trail hands in this movie...all grown up! They are all together for the anniversary of the movie and talk about filming with Wayne and all the behind the scenes things that happened. It is a WONDERFUL interview. Did you notice that the oldest boy that followed them (the gun and knife boy) was played by AJ Martinez?! Or that the 15 year old boy that was the first one to jump on the green broken horse is Robert Carradine?!
I was ten when this came out, seen it at the drive-in theater with my folks. I grew up working on our family farm in Iowa, I like to think this film helped in instilling me the work ethic that my dad always taught us five brothers.
Outstanding reaction video, thank you for sharing
@@Lue_Jonin Thanks so much🙏🏻 I’m glad you enjoyed it!
A testament to Bruce Dern's acting that you hated him so much. Not many Wayne villains are remembered like this one. When they filmed this, Wayne told him, "people are going to hate you for this" and Dern responded (it was the 60s) "They'll love me in Berkely." He really is a fine actor. He was nominated for Best Actor just a couple of years ago for,
"Nebraska"
I was 5 years old when this movie came out and it has been one of my favorites ever since, I'm glad that Mr. Wayne has passed on and can't see what has happened to this nation that he loved so much. May he R.I.P.
"Jubal" Glenn Ford and Ernest Borgnine
Legend says that John Wayne told Bruce Dern, just before they filmed the death scene, "you're about to become the most hated man in America." He wasn't wrong. Bruce Dern got hate mail for YEARS after this movie.
I have always loved this movie since I was little. I like it even though it is one of few movies that John died in. Great reaction Lady Madison, love your outfit the whole setup super hat, cool shirt and jeans with lovely hair so way to go.
Fun fact: the 2nd rustler killed (by Cimarron with his knife) was played by Richard Farnsworth. Farnsworth had a long career in Hollywood in bit parts, mainly Westerns. More notable was his portrayal of baseball coach Red Blow in The Natural. He was also known for playing Matthew Cuthbert in the PBS series Anne of Green Gables.
Little Big Man is an American film directed by Arthur Penn released in 1970.
It was entered into the National Film Registry in 2014 to be preserved in the Library of Congress. The film is adapted from the novel Memoirs of a Pale Face (“Little Big Man”) by Thomas Berger, published in 1964.
121-year-old Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) looks back on his past and tells a historian (William Hickey) about his adventurous life, since he was adopted by the Cheyenne in the 1860s when he was just a young child, until his participation in the defeat of General Custer (Richard Mulligan) at the Battle of Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876, through his association with the adventurer and sharpshooter Wild Bill Hickok
John Wayne famously told Bruce Dern, just before filming the scene where he shoots him, "Oh, they're going to hate you for what you're about to do."
Hi Madison. Great reaction. I am so glad you got around to seeing this. Didn't look back to see what you have already watched the Duke in, but going to leave you a few suggestio,ns. McClintock (with Maureen O'Hara), Big Jake (also with Maureen), The Shootist, Since you liked Rio Bravo you should try El Dorado (with Robert Mitchum and James Caan). For a couple of John Wayne non-westerns try The Quiet Man (Maureen again) and a older movie he did with Donna Reed called Trouble along the Way. I must have seen them each at least a dozen times, but I would still watch you react to them. Hope you get a chance to watch and enjoy! Stay safe and well.
I saw this as a kid, with the fam; Dad was a western fan! But a couple of years ago the Lone Pine Film Festival screened this because Robert Carradine was a festival guest. Great to see this on the big screen, and I’ve been crushing on A Martinez for 50 years!!! 😍
Please give the Star Trek franchise a chance. You don't have to watch everything. Maybe: top ten Classic episodes = Star Trek 1 to 6 = top ten "The Next Generation" episodes = Star Trek 7 to 10 = the three J.J. Abrams Star Trek movies? ✌️
While I am a lifetime Trek fan - I watched the original series on a black and white console TV in the 60s, I have to draw the line at JJ Abrams. I literally hate those for being just a CGI fest. He completely butchers the Star Trek storylines just to make hours of explosions with a hacked up storyline.
@@gitchegumeeI can accept this, but you also have to realize that the new films have given Star Trek many new fans who otherwise would not have been interested in this franchise. Many then learned to love the older series and films. Personally, I can enjoy any version of Star Trek.
@@martinbraun1211 If he had stuck to Trek canon and just freshened up the story for modern audiences (short attention spans and need to action over story) then I could get into them more. It just seems to me Abrams made these without any knowledge of the franchise and he based his script on someone telling him some backstories - in Chinese, so he just winged the storylines.
Thanks for finally watching this classic western. Would love for you to check out his final movie The Shootist. Also, check out the highly overlooked Paul Newman western Hombre from 1967. Thanks a bunch Madison.
When the Duke reaches for the pie, he didn’t know that the cook was going to throw the knife. So he really was surprised.
I could see you writing another book after watching Lonesome Dove and The Cowboys 😊
Half the boys were actors, the other half actually grew up on ranches. The actors went to riding school for a couple months. By the time they shot the movie they could all ride a horse well.
Robert Carradine (Slim) was on Word on Westerns (youtube channel) where he gives a good story on making this movie and meeting John Wayne.
Great movie! Thank you for reacting to this Madison!
I really hope you don’t have problems getting this one uploaded. Really looking forward to it.
Thank you, Madison! One of my favorite movie reviews. This was my first western as a boy. I will have to see if you reacted to either of the "True Grit" movies.
This is my favorite Western. I've seen it so many times, and yet, I bought the movie on VHS.
Charles “Slim” Honeycutt was Louis in Revenge of The Nerds, Lizzie McGuire’s dad, and was on an episode of ER season 1.
Thanks for watching these John Wayne movies, so underappreciated these days.
loved watching your face.knew you would cry when big john died.great film .great actor bruce dern was.
Great synopsis. I liked it
Cimarron was played by A. Martinez. He played Jacob Nighthorse in the series Longmire. It’s a great tv series.
Great job and reaction Madison and team!
When this movie came out, what happened to Wayne's character was the first time such a thing happened in a john wayne movie.
My Aunt cried when John Wayne got shot in 1972. As a kid I always thought that was silly. It's just a movie after all! 60 years later and now I cry every time I see this movie. I don't feel silly about it anymore.
Robert Carradine who played Honeycutt in this movie, was the main character Lewis Skolnick in Revenge of the Nerds. Lol!
This was my Father's favorite movie. "We're Burning Day Light!"
Great reaction!!! Your favorite guy in this movie is still around. Bruce Dern has been in several of Quentin Tarantino's movies. He was the slave owner with the yellow glasses that sells Django away from his wife at the beginning of Django, and he was the Southern officer in The Hateful Eight (the first one killed).
Took me years to get over Bruce Dern's (Laura Dern's father BTW) character in this movie. Whenever I saw him in another film I would get angry and assume he was the villain whether he was or not. He played that cowardly weasel perfectly.
33:15 - That reminds me of that scene with the steak that he had in the movie "The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance".
Madison, you are a hoot 😅 . My favorite line, when (bald headed) Nightlinger is about to be hanged, "If you harm one hair on that old man's head..."😮😅😂
Bruce Dern is the father of Laura Dern, who is known among other things, for her role in Jurassic Park.
Well Madison, I must say, you look right at home in your little cowgirl hat! Another wonderful reaction!!!
This was one of nine movies The Duke died on screen. There were also 5 movies where he died off screen.
Can’t believe you cut out the line “headed for the gut myself”. Always makes me laugh
Madison, Fantastic reaction. This is the second time I've watched you react to this. Great Job, your reactions are always great. Some that come to mind (and I know I may forget a few) are Jerimia Johnson, Rear Window, Ben Hur, and It's a Wonderful Life. Steven
One Of My All Time Favorite Western Movie's, Great Reaction Sweetheart
03:59 "Henry Bigelow is 60 years old, Wil." I saw this film when it came out in 1972. I was 9 years old then.
Now, I'm a year older than Wil Andersen and Henry Bigelow. Jesus!
Favorite movie. I remember watching when i was a kid and just wanted to be a cattle driver. This and Lonesome Dove
Madison i bought your book on Amazon, going to start reading it tonight, by the way thank you fir reacting to the cowboys, always a favorite of mine.
For a lot of us, who are older,….this was the first time we ever saw John Wayne die in a movie. I was 9.
How have you not seen this one yet. This movie and Stagecoach (1939) are two of his best from opposite ends of his career.
This movie has choked me up since I was seven when it came out. My dad took the family to see it on base in Taiwan where we were stationed and yes for several years afterwards I couldn't stand Bruce Dern even though he was a pretty big star through the 70s. Great reaction as always.
Thanks
Such an epic, and I was a Freshman in HS when this premiered in theaters. Hated Bruce Dern for years, and used Mr. Nightlinger quotes even longer! Roscoe Lee Browne was a National Treasure.
My favorite John Wayne movie is his very last one. The Shootist. That one has Jimmy Stewart, Ron Howard, Lauren Bacall, Henry Morgan, and quite few big name actors in it. Hopefully you will get to watch that one.
They all worked for scale minimum wages because John was dying of cancer - and they knew this would be his final film.
I can't remember exactly when, but "The Cowboys" was turned into a TV program with some of the original boys, including Robert Carradine and A Martinez. The show was actually pretty good, but sadly lasted only a couple of seasons. I don't know if the show ended because of low ratings or if the boys grew up too quickly.
I don't know how you are about adding the element of Science Fiction into your Westerns, but a great movie that incorporates both Sci-Fi and Westerns is "Cowboys & Aliens." It answers the age old question, "How would people in the Old West fight off an invasion of alien beings?" It stars Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones series), Daniel Craig (James Bond series), Sam Rockwell (The Green Mile, Iron Man II), Adam Beach (Joe Dirt, Windtalkers), and Olivia Wilde (House).
I was so shocked - and so were many others - when John Wayne was shot up.
I forgot to mention that he was also in an episode of Maude which was pretty amusing.
True Grit with Wayne and also the remake--two great westerns.
Thanks!
Thank you, Mark!!🙏🏻
Half the boys were Hollywood kids who could act, but needed some extra riding lessons. The other half were ranch kids who had grown up on horseback, but needed some acting lessons.
Watched this at a drive-in as a kid, and that started my 40-year hatred of Bruce Dern. John Wayne told him at the time that people would hate him. As for me and my siblings, he was right. FYI: with therapy, I was able to get over it...😁
I was 12 when this came out. It's no mystery why I grew up wanting to be a cowboy. I only managed a couple cows for my own family and didn't start getting horses for my girls until I was in my late 30's. Better late than never.
This movie, The Magnificent Seven, Rio Bravo, High Noon, and Silverado are, in my opinion, some of the best Western movies ever made. Plenty of other great ones as well, Rooster Cogburn, True Grit, McLintock and so on, but still, the one's I listed are my favorites. Maybe I should move McLintock into the first list, Maureen O'Hara is a great actress.
Thanks for the review, it was very enjoyable. Was waiting for your reaction when he said, "Forgive me for the men I have killed in anger, and for the men I'm about to..." and wasn't disappointed.
I was a little younger than the boys portrayed in this movie when I saw it in the theatre with my dad (I was about 10). Probably still mad at Bruce Dern to this day. That intro music is used for those commercials promoting beef, and a version of it sounds like it was used in "Stripes".
Bruce Dern was a great actor. You might know of his daughter
When they came to shoot the scene where Mr. Anderson gets killed John Wayne warned Bruce Dern that millions of people will hate him. Dern replied, "Yeah, but they'll love me in Berkeley!"
This is the first movie that I ever saw John Wayne get killed in and I've never gotten over it either. The shootist is another that he gets killed in.
Thx for your reaction I was traumatized seeing Bruce Dern''s character in this show I was young. He has played creepy roles his whole career. I can't remeber ever seeing him where i was smpathetic to him. He played old man Spahn in the ranch scene in Tarantino's, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.