The Castaway Cowboy (1974)

• Director
  • Vincent McEveety
• Writers
  • Don Tait(screenplay by)
  • Richard M. Bluel(story by)
  • Hugh Benson(story by)
• Stars
  • James Garner
  • Vera Miles
  • Robert Culp

  James Garner stars as a genial cowboy in this wholesome slice of Disney family fare. Garner is Lincoln Costain, a cowboy in the 1850s who finds himself shanghaied and shipwrecked on a Hawaiian island. He runs into luckless widow Henrietta MacAvoy (Vera Miles) and helps her turn her struggling potato farm into a prosperous cattle ranch. But evil land baron Bryson (Robert Culp) wants all the land for himself and he holds Henrietta's mortgage. Lincoln had been planning to leave Hawaii and return to his Texas home, but decides to stay and help the beautiful widow fend off Bryson's land-grabbing greed.