The Culpepper Cattle Co.
by Dick Richards
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Actor: Billy Green Bush, Bo Hopkins, Gary Grimes, Geoffrey Lewis, Luke AskewDirector: Dick Richards
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Lawrence Edward Williams
Cinematographer: Ralph Woolsey
Writer: Dick Richards
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Producer: Paul Helmick
Writer: Eric Bercovici
Writer: Gregory Prentiss
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-23
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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Summary: 5 Stars
I remember seeing this movie for the first time some thirty years or so ago. It's authentic un-hollywood feel struck home then and watching it again today it still seems to reflect more than a modicum of historical reality. The acting is superb without the usual overwrought overwritten and typically formulaic storyline so beloved of mainstream hollywood. I love the unadorned frontier sets which, along with the dour beaten down look of the working folk, evokes what must have been a strange and unpredictable time in America. Its still strong enough in story and characterisation to ignore any small errors, omissions or the inevitable hollywood flourish (the death of the gang at the end springs to mind). This is one good western and my children agree. I highly recommend to anyone who enjoys the indie-style American movie.
Summary of The Culpepper Cattle Co.
An innocent western teenager learns about life on a long, violent and harrowing cattle drive. The American West as it really was.The Culpepper Cattle Company is a worthy example of a certain kind of early-1970s Western: deglamorized, unromantic, and frankly violent. This one begins in familiar terms, as a greenhorn lad (Gary Grimes, recently deflowered in Summer of '42) joins a cattle drive, surrendering himself to the extremely focused leadership of boss Frank Culpepper (the authentically Western Billy "Green" Bush). The episodes that follow are engrossing and colorful, and the drive gets more interesting when a quartet of lethal hombres (among them Bo Hopkins, Luke Askew, and wild-eyed Geoffrey Lewis) join the ride. The business of frontier justice--which here usually means shooting strangers just to be on the safe side--is worked out in refreshingly unheroic ways. Clearly director Dick Richards (making his debut in a relatively brief directing career) is responding to the revisionist era, and specifically to the films of the great Sam Peckinpah; this movie's climax is a scaled-down nod to The Wild Bunch. Probably too scaled-down, given the somewhat abrupt ending. The music uses themes from Jerry Goldsmith's terrific score for The Flim-Flam Man, released five years earlier. Culpepper got lost in the flurry of revisionist westerns that sounded similar themes: The Cowboys, The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid, and by far the best of this group, Robert Benton's Bad Company. All were released in 1972, a high-water mark for re-thinking the genre. --Robert Horton
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