Man and Boy (1971)

Director
E.W. Swackhamer

Main cast
Bill Cosby; Gloria Foster; Leif Erickson; Henry Silva; Dub Taylor

Genres
Western, Adventure

Description
At the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a frontier state and full of criminals at that time.


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