The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)

GOOD WESTERN

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.

July 4, 2008

Hard dusty trail

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 August 4, 2007

best western ever made, bar none

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 October 13, 2006

"Cowboyin' Somethin'..." by texcowboy

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. September 24, 2006

another smaller version of 'the magnificent seven'

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. September 15, 2006

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