The Castaway Cowboy

1974
G
1h 31m

IMDb RATING

5.7/10

947

YOUR RATING

Comedy Family Western

A Texas cowboy is rescued at sea by a 12-year-old boy. While he waits to return home, he decides to help out his rescuer's family.A Texas cowboy is rescued at sea by a 12-year-old boy. While he waits to return home, he decides to help out his rescuer's family.A Texas cowboy is rescued at sea by a 12-year-old boy. While he waits to return home, he decides to help out his rescuer's family.

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IMDb RATING

5.7/10

947

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Second and final of two collaborations of actress Vera Miles and actor James Garner. The pair also worked together the previous year on 1973's One Little Indian (1973) also a western and also at Disney.

Goofs
At the 1:07:21 mark one of the wild cattle has a brand - an x in a circle.

Quotes
Lincoln Costain: Where are you going, Batten?
Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy: Booton! Aw shucks, what's the use? I can't get the dang thing to work anyhow.
Lincoln Costain: In my outfit we only quit when it's too dark to work or time to eat. I didn't hear the dinner bell, did you?

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Review

Featured review

6/10

Should be far more entertaining

Not bad, not good.

'The Castaway Cowboy' is a run-of-the-mill live-action offering from Disney. The casting is fine but plain, while the plot is alright if unspectacular and entirely predictable - especially the love story, which is one of the most obvious I think I have ever seen. The humour is decent, probably the best part of this.

James Garner (Costain) and Vera Miles (Henrietta) are a duo once again, following on from their exploits together in 'One Little Indian' a year prior. Eric Shea plays Booton, who I feared would be yet another annoying Disney kid actor but he's actually OK all in all.

The villains are extremely forgettable, in fairness Robert Culp (Bryson), Gregory Sierra (Marruja) and Nephi Hannemann (Malakoma) don't get much to work with - unexplored potential; solid actor choices.

This should be far more entertaining, especially as it's an adventure film.