The Culpepper Cattle Co.
- Release Date
- April 15, 1972
- Director
- Dick Richards
- Cast
- Gary Grimes , Billy Green Bush , Luke Askew , Bo Hopkins , Geoffrey Lewis , Wayne Sutherlin
- Runtime
- 92
- Main Genre
- Western
- Writers
- Dick Richards , Eric Bercovici , Gregory Prentiss
- Tagline
- How Many Men Do You Have to Kill to Be the Great American Cowboy?
Summary
Teenager Ben Mockridge feels life in a Wild West farm town has nothing better to offer then horse-cart racing with other hicks, so he naively begs cattle company owner Frank Culpepper to engage him as youngest cowboy for a long cattle trail to a fort, his mother barely notices. Ben doesn't even seem to get it when he's told to report as 'little Mary' to the old cook, whose words cowboy is something you do only if you have nothing better gradually become clear. Instead of an exciting heroic macho life, it's endless hard work, dumb chores and embarrassment, even getting literally caught with his pants down, robbed of his horse, witnessing unpunished crimes...
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The Culpepper Cattle Co. DVD Review
Gary Grimes stars in a film that has the western feel in it's bones.