The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
- Directed by
- Dick Richards
- Genre
- Western film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 50 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young boy joins a cattle drive in 1866 to become a man. He learns the harsh realities of cowboy life through violence and hard work.
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What happens
The Culpepper Cattle Co. or Dust, Sweat and Gunpowder (Australian title) is a 1972 American revisionist Western film produced by Twentieth Century Fox. It was directed by Dick Richards and starred Billy Green Bush as Frank Culpepper and Gary Grimes as Ben Mockridge. This was the first credited film for Jerry Bruckheimer, for which he received an associate producer credit. Its tagline is "How many men do you have to kill before you become the great American cowboy?" and also "The boy from Summer of '42 becomes a man on the cattle drive of 1866", which references a similar coming of age film starring Grimes. The film is typical of the "hyper-realism" of many early 1970s revisionist westerns. It is particularly noted for its grainy photography and use of sepia toning in some scenes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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