The Castaway Cowboy

A Wayward Texas cowboy washes up on the beaches of Hawaii and is taken home by an fatherless boy. He saves the family's business while romancing the single mom.

Cast

James Garner

as Lincoln Costain

Vera Miles

as Henrietta MacAvoy

Eric Shea

as Booton 'Little Maca' MacAvoy

Robert Culp

as Calvin Bryson

Manu Tupou

as Kimo

Gregory Sierra

as Marruja

Shug Fisher

as Capt. Cary

Kim Kahana

as Oka

Buddy Joe Hooker

as Boatman

Elizabeth Smith

as Liliha (MacAvoy housekeeper)

Reviews

r96sk

Not bad, not good. <em>'The Castaway Cowboy'</em> 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 h...

CinemaSerf

James Garner ("Costain") is washed up on the beach of an Hawaiian island where he is befriended by a widow "Henrietta" (Vera Miles) and her young son "Booton" (Eric Shea). They are struggling farmers, and so he sets his mind to try to help them out. All of this much to the chagrin of local bigwig "B...

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