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.
Lito Capina
- Leleo
- (as Lito Capiña)
Kim Kahana
- Oka
- (as Kahana)
Jerry Velasco
- Hawaiian cowboy
- (voice)
Tony Regan
- Card Player
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaSecond 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.
- GoofsAt 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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Basically, I'm just headed for Texas
I thought it was Australia? Oh ... that was Support Your Local Sherrif, and there is a lot of that character in James Garner's performance in this film.
Garner looks a bit heavier and a bit slower in this film, as the injuries he'd suffered in previous roles started to catch up to him. This was just before Rockford, where he often moved like an old man because of them.
This is a great fish out of water film, and the novelty is it works both ways. Garner's Costain, rescued after he escaped from a ship that shanghaied him, finds himself totally out of place among the native Hawaiians, and on a potato farm.
Once Mrs. MacAvoy (Vera Miles) learns she might leverage some wild cattle into saving her failing farm, she convinces Costain to retrain her farm hands as cowboys. That's the second fish out of water element, because the Hawaiians initially don't fare too well as cowpokes. :-)
But with training mishaps, witch doctoring, and having to figure out how to load cattle on ships with no docks available, Costain almost gives up.
Garner is always a good watch. I've never been disappointed.
Garner looks a bit heavier and a bit slower in this film, as the injuries he'd suffered in previous roles started to catch up to him. This was just before Rockford, where he often moved like an old man because of them.
This is a great fish out of water film, and the novelty is it works both ways. Garner's Costain, rescued after he escaped from a ship that shanghaied him, finds himself totally out of place among the native Hawaiians, and on a potato farm.
Once Mrs. MacAvoy (Vera Miles) learns she might leverage some wild cattle into saving her failing farm, she convinces Costain to retrain her farm hands as cowboys. That's the second fish out of water element, because the Hawaiians initially don't fare too well as cowpokes. :-)
But with training mishaps, witch doctoring, and having to figure out how to load cattle on ships with no docks available, Costain almost gives up.
Garner is always a good watch. I've never been disappointed.
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- The Hawaiian Cowboy
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- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.75 : 1
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