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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 17758
Released: May 23, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
An innocent western teenager learns about life on a long, violent and harrowing cattle drive. The American West as it really was.
Description of The Culpepper Cattle Co.:
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
The Culpepper Cattle Co. Reviews:
GOOD WESTERN 
2008-07-04 - 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.
Hard dusty trail 
2007-08-04 - The culpepper cattle company , rates up there with "Will pepper" ,these where the orginal cowboy movies to establist the classic "Lonesome Dove"
so they them selves are the real classic's. The hardship of being a true cowboy , that dirty little guy who sat a horse and nursed cattle hundreds of miles , through rough and rugged country , facing hot sun, high chilling winds, hot dusty drive. Thats not to mention those who would , want to steal your cattle and stop your grazing on open range.
Everyone wants to be a cowboy but know one wants the work, hardship and difficults. Great movie if you have Lonesome Dove , get this one as well as Will Penny and sit your saddle in the comfort of your easy chair.
Luddy
best western ever made, bar none
2006-10-13 - This is just the best quintessential western ever made. Others are good, too (Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, Monte Walsh, Outlaw Josie Wales) but this is the best, minute for minute. It shows the west as it was. The characters are realistic, which is rare in a western
"Cowboyin' Somethin'..." by texcowboy
2006-09-24 - Culpepper Cattle Co., in my opinion, was one of the best Westerns I've seen, and can compare to "Lonesome Dove", "The Outlaw Josey Wales" and "The Cowboys", along with numerous others. It is set in the late 1800s, circa 1880?, and a young boy wants to go with the Culpepper Cattle Company on a drive to Colorado. Frank Culpepper hires him, and the cowboys face everything from stampedes, horsethieves, landowners, and no water. This is a classic, and should be in every Western lover's movie library.
another smaller version of 'the magnificent seven'
2006-09-15 - a fantastic movie with quite realistic settings. the storyline is almost like a version of 'the magnificent seven', only the magnificent guys (they were not great people but actually scumbags) were 4 to 5 guys, the boy was not included. a very good western.
