eShop USA > DVD > The Culpepper Cattle Co.
The Culpepper Cattle Co.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
used
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: GRIMES,GARY
EAN: 0024543238768
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: D2233878D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 23, 2006
Running Time: 92 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1972
Related Items:
Editorial Review:An innocent western teenager learns about life on a long, violent and harrowing cattle drive. The American West as it really was.
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
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
If you like realistic western life here you go. Still holds up over the years.
Rating: -
I had seen this on TV a few times but never actually saw the whole thing from beginning to end so decided to take a chance on it. I really liked it. It's a little violent but has a great cast and story.
Rating: -
I remember seeing this movie for the first time some thirty years or so ago. It's authentic un-hollywood feel struck home then and watching it again today it still seems to reflect more than a modicum of historical reality. The acting is superb without the usual overwrought overwritten and typically formulaic storyline so beloved of mainstream hollywood. I love the unadorned frontier sets which, along with the dour beaten down look of the working folk, evokes what must have been a strange and unpredictable ... Read More
Rating: -
A good gutsy western, no fantasies, no heroes just a good yarn about a bunch of guys doing their job and how they manage to overcome the problems that confront them in this young frontier country.Obviously well researched and period correct;not usual for a western! Plenty of action and a good story. Would definitely recomend this movie.
Rating: -
In the 1970s westerns began popping up that tried to poke holes in all the myths that had popped up over the years, one of the best being The Culpepper Cattle Co. In 1866 Texas as wounds are still healed from the Civil War, Ben Mockbridge is a teenager looking to become a cowboy. He's in luck when a man named Frank Culpepper is driving a herd 2,000 miles north to Fort Lewis, Colorado. Ben's hired as the cook's assistant. Whatever he had in mind for what the life of a cowboy was like is quickly put to rest. ... Read More
Related Categories:
Recently viewed PC Hardware:
HP TouchSmart IQ526 Desktop PC (2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 Processor, 4 GB RAM, 640 GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista Premium)
|
Compaq Presario C770US 15.4-inch Laptop (1.86 GHz Pentium Dual Core Mobile T2390 Processor, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista Premium) Black
|
Compaq Presario F560US 15.4" Laptop (AMD Sempron Processor 3500+, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, Vista Basic)
|
ELO E292567 1715L 17-Inch LCD Monitor with Intelli Touch Dual Serial/USB Controller (Gray)
|
Toshiba Satellite L515-S4925 14.0-Inch Laptop - Black/Grey
|
|
