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The Culpepper Cattle Co.
Working as an assistant on a long cattle drive, the young Ben Mockridge contends between his dream of being a cowboy and the harsh truth of the Old West.
- Original title
- The Culpepper Cattle Co.
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
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John Chard
Apr 8, 2015 · via TMDB
When Little Mary Became A Man. The Culpepper Cattle Co. is a splinter of the Western genre that was tagged as revisionist. Often the makers of such Oaters went for a more grizzled look at the West, even demythologising the Hollywood Westerns that had proved so popular for decades. Directed by Dick Richards, The Culpepper Cattle Co. is one such picture. Young Ben Mockridge (Gary Grimes) wants to be a cowboy, to work on the drives and hone his gun play skills. When trail drive boss Frank Culpepper (Billy Green Bush) is in town, Ben begs him for work and is thrilled to be hired as the cook's Little Mary. What he isn't so thrilled about is actually what it's really like out there on a drive... And so it comes to pass, young Ben is at the bottom of the cowboy ladder and Richards and his writing team ensure there is no glamour to be found. The drive is beset with thievery and rustling, killings, stampedes, inner fighting and very hard work for very little pay. The men on the trail all look the same, they dress the same, they smell the same, they are all worked hard and understand the same weary banter. What camaraderie there is is kept to a minimum, they are a team in a working sense, but their loyalty only comes to the fore when they are tasked with fighting and killing' enemies. The bars are not all bright and sparkly, with a well suited man playing a piano, no these are dingy holes with dirty glasses. No bordello babes either, just a hapless lassie loaned out for services by a barkeep who has in his own mind some tenuous right to have her in his keep. This is purposely downbeat, with the photography by Lawrence Edward Williams and Ralph Woolsey emphasising this fact by stripping back the colours for authenticity. While Jerry Goldsmith and Ralph Woolsey's musical score is deftly restrained, perfectly so. The story moves to its final conclusion, a confrontation that excites and depresses equally so, for even in the whirl of bullets and thundering hooves, the realisation dawns on Ben, and us, that nothing changes the life of the cowboys out there on the drives. It's live, work and die. Cowboyin is something you do when you can't do nothing else - Indeed! 9/10
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Gary Grimes
Ben Mockridge
Billy Green Bush
Frank Culpepper
Luke Askew
Luke
Bo Hopkins
Dixie Brick
Geoffrey Lewis
Russ
Wayne Sutherlin
Missoula
John McLiam
Thorton Pierce
Matt Clark
Pete
Raymond Guth
Cook
Anthony James
Nathaniel
Charles Martin Smith
Tim Slater (as Charlie Martin Smith)
Bob Morgan
Old John
Jan Burrell
Mrs. Mockridge
Hal Needham
Burgess
Jerry Gatlin
Wallop
Bob Orrison
Rutter
Royal Dano
Cattle Rustler
José Chávez
Cantina Bartender (as Jose Chavez)
Arthur Malet
Doctor
Ted Gehring
Tascosa Bartender
Gregory Sierra
One-Eyed Horsethief
Dennis Fimple
Wounded Man in Bar
William O'Connell
Bartender in Piercetown
Hal Needham
Stunt Coordinator
Dick Richards
Director
Jerry Bruckheimer
Associate Producer
Jerry Goldsmith
Original Music Composer
Dick Richards
Story
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The Flyin' Buckaroo
Rotting In The... Summer
Border Guns
Driver
Gundown at Sandoval
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Stagecoach
The Big Country
The Magnificent Seven
Trinity Is Still My Name
Raiders of Red Gap
The Rider
Blazing Saddles
The Cowboys
The Duke of Chimney Butte
Bullets for Bandits
Ace of Action
Old Yeller
The Far Country
The War Wagon
Young Guns
Gun Smoke
The Harder They Fall
Nevada
Go West
Arizona Gang Busters
Joe Kidd
Carry On Cowboy
The Electric Horseman
Dudes
Abilene Town
Wild Wild West
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
VeggieTales: The Ballad of Little Joe
Desert Mesa
Lightnin' Crandall
Wild Gals of the Naked West
Revelation Trail
The Nomad
Shawano
The Summer of Walter Hacks
The Horse of the West
Headin' South
Don’t Fence Me In
The Big Country
Old Henry
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Jubal
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
Big Jake
Heaven's Gate
Pardners
Young Guns
The Harder They Fall
Appaloosa
Urban Cowboy
The Missouri Breaks
The Magnificent Seven
The Jack Bull
Joe Kidd
Two Rode Together
Monte Walsh
The Ballad of Lefty Brown
Alvarez Kelly
Badland
Day of Reckoning
Terror on the Prairie
A Million Ways to Die in the West
The Hi-Lo Country
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New York City
