Gary Grimes and his drop-gallon hat in The Culpepper Cattle Co., 1972

The Culpepper Cattle Co., written and directed by Dick Richards, released to theaters in April of 1972.

This Revisionist Western stars Gary Grimes (Summer of ’42) as teenage farmboy Ben Mockridge and Billy Green Bush (Five Easy Pieces) as Frank Culpepper. Young Ben gets hired on for his first cattle drive and trouble rears its ugly head.

The tagline for the movie reads: “How many men do you have to kill before you become the great American cowboy?”

The Culpepper Cattle Co. Wiki, IMDb
Culpepper review at Every70sMovie

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