Cowboy

Realistic western in which a Chicago hotel clerk is dramatically transformed from tenderfoot to hardened trail hand when he goes on a cattle drive with a range boss he befriends. When the clerk loans the cowboy some money for a poker game, he is repaid with an invitation to join in a roundup. In the course of the eventful adventure, the clerk’s romantic notions of cowboy life in the Wild West are permanently dispelled., Hotel clerk and cattleman each learn valuable lesson about life when they become partners on a rugged cattle drive to Mexico., When the manager of a luxurious Chicago hotel learns of the imminent arrival of trail boss Tom Reece, he tells hotel clerk Frank Harris to clear out a wing of the hotel to make room for Reece…, A citified desk clerk in a frontier hotel harbours romantic notions of the West, and prevails upon a hard-living, hard-drinking trail boss to take him along on the next cattle drive. In the months that follow, the clerk’s idealised notions of the West are cruelly dispelled., Jack Lemmon plays a wannabe cowboy who quickly discovers that life on the big trail is anything but fun. Glenn Ford co-stars as the embittered cow-herd showing him the ropes and inadvertently revealing the attraction of life in the saddle. Directed by Delmer Daves. Wide, Jack Lemmon stars as a wannabe cowboy who quickly discovers that life on the big trail is anything but fun in this autobiographical Western. Glenn Ford co-stars as the embittered cow-herd showing him the ropes and inadvertently revealing the attraction of life in the saddle., This western saga tells the tale of a Chicago hotel clerk who dreams of becoming a cowboy and moving West. He believes he finally finds his opportunity when a cattle rancher comes to Chicago on business. Try as he might, the rancher cannot get rid of the eager young man., A citified desk clerk in a frontier hotel harbors romantic notions of the West, and prevails upon a hard-living, hard-drinking trail boss to take him along on the next cattle drive. In the months that follow, the clerk’s idealized notions of the West are cruelly dispelled., 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.