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The Castaway Cowboy (1974)

The Castaway Cowboy poster
Directed by
Vincent McEveety
Genre
comedy film, Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
G
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 30 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Texas rancher is kidnapped onto a ship. He escapes and ends up on a Hawaiian island where he helps a local woman run her cattle ranch.

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What happens

The Castaway Cowboy is a 1974 American Western comedy film released by Walt Disney Productions starring James Garner, Vera Miles, Eric Shea, and Robert Culp about a Texas rancher who gets shanghaied, then jumps ship and finds himself washed ashore in Hawaii. Filmed on location in Hawaii, the film was directed by Vincent McEveety and written by Don Tait and Richard M. Bluel. Garner later wrote that the best thing in the film was Hawaiian scenery. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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