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The Culpepper Cattle Co.

  • 19721972
  • PGPG
  • 1h 32m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
1.7K
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The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
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  • Western
Young farmboy who always wanted to be a cowhand talks a tough trail boss into hiring him on a cattle drive.Young farmboy who always wanted to be a cowhand talks a tough trail boss into hiring him on a cattle drive.Young farmboy who always wanted to be a cowhand talks a tough trail boss into hiring him on a cattle drive.
IMDb RATING
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1.7K
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  • Director
    • Dick Richards
  • Writers
    • Dick Richards(story)
    • Eric Bercovici(screenplay)
    • Gregory Prentiss(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Gary Grimes
    • Billy Green Bush
    • Luke Askew
Top credits
  • Director
    • Dick Richards
  • Writers
    • Dick Richards(story)
    • Eric Bercovici(screenplay)
    • Gregory Prentiss(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Gary Grimes
    • Billy Green Bush
    • Luke Askew
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 51User reviews
    • 21Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 nominations

    Videos1

    Trailer
    Trailer 2:55
    Trailer

    Photos20

    Gary Grimes in The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
    Luke Askew, Gary Grimes, and Wayne Sutherlin in The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
    Billy Green Bush and Gary Grimes in The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
    Gary Grimes in The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
    Gary Grimes in The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
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    Gary Grimes
    Gary Grimes
    • Ben Mockridgeas Ben Mockridge
    Billy Green Bush
    Billy Green Bush
    • Frank Culpepperas Frank Culpepper
    • (as Billy 'Green' Bush)
    Luke Askew
    Luke Askew
    • Lukeas Luke
    Bo Hopkins
    Bo Hopkins
    • Dixie Brickas Dixie Brick
    Geoffrey Lewis
    Geoffrey Lewis
    • Russas Russ
    Wayne Sutherlin
    • Missoulaas Missoula
    John McLiam
    John McLiam
    • Thorton Pierceas Thorton Pierce
    Matt Clark
    Matt Clark
    • Peteas Pete
    Raymond Guth
    • Cookas Cook
    Anthony James
    Anthony James
    • Nathanielas Nathaniel
    Charles Martin Smith
    Charles Martin Smith
    • Tim Slateras Tim Slater
    • (as Charlie Martin Smith)
    Larry Finley
    Larry Finley
    • Mr. Slateras Mr. Slater
    Bob Morgan
    Bob Morgan
    • Old Johnas Old John
    Jan Burrell
    Jan Burrell
    • Mrs. Mockridgeas Mrs. Mockridge
    Hal Needham
    Hal Needham
    • Burgessas Burgess
    Jerry Gatlin
    Jerry Gatlin
    • Wallopas Wallop
    Bob Orrison
    • Rutteras Rutter
    Walter Scott
    Walter Scott
    • Printas Print
    • Director
      • Dick Richards
    • Writers
      • Dick Richards(story)
      • Eric Bercovici(screenplay)
      • Gregory Prentiss(screenplay)
    • All cast & crew
    • See more cast details at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The pistol Ben (Gary Grimes) shows off to Tim (Charles Martin Smith) at the beginning of the movie and later kills his first man with during the saloon shootout, is a model 1858 Remington Army.
    • Goofs
      Immediately after starting the drive, the cook needs to spit, and does so across Ben, who is sitting beside him. The cook then tells Ben that he better "Sit down wind." This is wrong, because Ben should sit Up Wind. You never spit Into-The-Wind, you always spit With-The-Wind or Down Wind. The line should have been, "You better NOT sit down wind."
    • Quotes

      Cook, Culpepper Outfit: You really got the itch, ain't ya?

      Ben Mockridge: Well, yeah, I do. I guess all I want to do is punch cows and ride and, well, just cowboying. There's nothing better than that. That's all I want.

      Cook, Culpepper Outfit: Kid, cowboying is something you do when you can't do nothing else.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Lovelace (2013)
    • Soundtracks
      Amazing Grace
      (uncredited)

      Traditional

      Lyrics by John Newton

    User reviews51

    Review
    Top review
    9/10
    On My List of "Top 10" Westerns
    Although a small movie, "The Culpepper Cattle Company" is arguably one of the top ten westerns of all time. It takes a fairly basic but relevant coming of age story and sets it in the American West. But the "been there-done that" stuff gives way to something that has extremely heavy Peckinpah influences. Like "The Wild Bunch" (and Bo Hopkins gets to reprise his Clarence "Crazy" Lee role) this becomes a violent anti-violence film with blurred lines between "good guy" and "bad guy". As with Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs", moral ambiguity is the theme and it is not until near the end that the four drovers, pressed to finally take a moral stand, redeem themselves with a final act of personal responsibility.

    In addition to a good characterization from Hopkins, Geoffry Lewis plays the wrapped a little too tight "Russ" with an over-the-top Gary Oldman-like flare, and Luke Askew does a masterful job as the drover who provides early clues that these are four guys who have had to subordinate their basic goodness in order to survive in this environment. Billy Green Bush plays "Frank Culpepper" who remains focused on business to the exclusion of any lost causes. Bush played the likable "Elton" in "Five Easy Pieces" who was responsible for the classic Nicholson line: "don't tell me about the good life Elton, the good life makes me want to puke".

    Also exceptional is the cinematography and the production design. Back in the ancient 1970's, only the high budget pictures had production designers. The others had to rely on the cinematographer to make sure the art director, the set designer, and the make-up/costume people were all on the same page; so that the picture had a consistent look. Ralph Woolsey was one of the better cinematographers at keeping all these elements under control.

    It became popular after Robert Altman's "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" (1971) to replace the well-scrubbed Roy Rogers look and portray the west as dirty, dusty, gritty, unshaven, and tattered. Woolsey eagerly embraced this realism in 1972 and gave us two of the grimiest features we are likely to see; the excellent "Culpepper Cattle Company" and the somewhat lame "Dirty Little Billy".

    The shootout scene in the saloon (midway into the film) is more climatic than the final scene. Not until "The Unforgiven" has there been so much action-so fast-on such a tiny set; yet Woolsey captured it all and the post-production people assembled it into a neat and logically sequenced package. So you can follow the whole thing with very little confusion.
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    • Mar 27, 2005

    Details

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    • Release date
      • July 9, 1972 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • We Pointed 'Em North
    • Filming locations
      • Sonoita, Arizona, USA
    • Production company
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 32 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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