When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man’s job under Andersen’s tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western Actors: A Martinez, Alfred Barker Jr., Allyn Ann McLerie, Bruce Dern, Charise Cullin, Charles Tyner, Chuck Courtney, Clay O'Brien, Colleen Dewhurst, Collette Poeppel, Fred Brookfield, Gary Epper, Henry Wills, Ivan Brutsche, J.R. Randall, Jerry Gatlin, Jim Burk, Joe Yrigoyen, John Wayne, Kent Hays, Larry Finley, Larry Randles, Lonny Chapman, Maggie Costain, Margaret Kelly, Matt Clark, Mike Pyeatt, Nicolas Beauvy, Norman Howell, Ralph Volkie, Richard Farnsworth, Rita Hudis, Robert Carradine, Roscoe Lee Browne, Sam O'Brien, Sarah Cunningham, Sean Kelly, Slim Pickens, Stephen R. Hudis, Steve Benedict, Tap Canutt, Tony Epper, Wallace Brooks, Walter Scott Directors: Mark Rydell Production: Sanford Productions (III), Warner Bros. Pictures