I am not a great fan of Delmer Daves's westerns, and the only one I watch occasionally is ' 3:10 To Yuma. ' In ' Cowboy ' Jack Lemmon plays a young man turned down in love who turns to a cattle drive led by Glenn Ford. He learns the hard way from working in civil life to the wild of the west and the casual brutalities that he has to witness there. I do not want to give spoilers, but the animals did not seem to like the film either. There is black humour in killing cockroaches while having a bath in hotel rooms and no humour at all in seeing a man painfully and pitifully dying of a snake bite, which is also a killing game gone wrong. Glenn Ford walked through the role and the other characters lacked definition. The filming though is excellent, and the music too brash and to some it could be counted as a masterpiece western, and it has been praised by top critics of the cinema. I may not have been in the mood for it so I will give it a 7 and somehow I do not think I will watch it again, but who knows ?
Review of Cowboy
