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
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
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
Movie Reviews of The Culpepper Cattle Co.
Movie Review: GOOD WESTERN
Summary: 4 Stars
This picture hit the theaters on April 16 1972 starring Gary Grimes as Ben Mockridge, Billy Green Bush as Frank Culpepper and Luke Askew as Luke. Ben Mockridge, is a 16-year-old boy who has long dreamed of living the life of a cowboy. Frank Culpepper is getting ready to take one the biggest cattle drives across Texas land that no one has seen before. Ben goes to Frank's ranch to beg him for a job and he's willing to just about anything as long as he's part of this cattle drive. However, Ben finds out that being a cowboy on cattle drive is not what he thought it was. Dealing with, loneliness, exhausting work from sun up to sun down and then some. Ben also for the first time has to use a gun to defend himself and the feeling he's left with is not a good one. Ben soon realizes that being a cowboy is only a job for those who can't find anything else to do with there lives. I grew up on a farm, I love cows, and that's why I give this movie 3 weasel stars for the cattle, country, and land that the movie was filmed on.
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.System Requirements:Running Time: 206 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. Rating: PG UPC: 024543238768 Manufacturer No: 2233878The 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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