Leofwine_draca THE CULPEPPER CATTLE CO. is a little-known and little-appreciated western in the Sam Peckinpah mould. It's also a coming-of-age drama about a young cowhand (Gary Crimes) who joins up with a gang of men who go on various scrapes and adventures and often find themselves outside of the law. An ensemble cast work hard to convey their characters here, with the inimitable Geoffrey Lewis standing out as a typical hard case. The dense storytelling is punctuated by the occasional burst of realistic violence, and things build to an appropriately satisfying climax. It makes for solid viewing.

georgewilliamnoble I was watching this revisionist western on TV, a movie from the early nineteen seventies Vietnam Era, for the first time in 45 years, and i had remembered the thread of it pretty well. With it's historic cast of familiar faces if not exactly familiar names the movie paints a gritty more realist view of the western frontier sometime after the civil war though the movie is abstract to it's exact setting. This is an episodic trail movie, with threads of plot rather than having a big story line, other than that it is set during a cattle drive jointed by an idealist naive green horn and it is this character the film centre's on played sympathetically by Gary Grimes more famous for the "Summer Of 42" a big success the previous year, he is again cast to portray innocence and he is very capable in the role. The movie shot in washed out sepia tones painting a lush dreamlike vision of the frontier, dry, dusty, dirty and deadly for many. The music reinforces the film's revisionist anti violence anti hero credentials with laconic soft tones that compliment the soft filtered photography. In the final analysis the movie has nothing very profound to say, yet it is never less than very watchable as it herds it's long horn's to market, it is the journey within not the destination, that matters.

Zaphod Beeblebrox Watch this film. It will dispel any romantic notions you might have about cowboys in the wild west. It portrays them as the ignorant wretches that they were. It is equally unkind to religious zealots and capitalists.The film is relatively slow moving, but that is likely a successful attempt to capture the boredom of the life of the cowboy. The sense of isolation in an unforgiving, vast expanse of territory is also brought out well.From a human/ensemble perspective, this film fails to convince. Personally, I did not bond at all with the set of characters whom I was obviously supposed to. The acting is somewhat better than mediocre. An exception is Anthony James, who evoked in me quite an infuriating response, but who has a minor role.

angelup302002 My son and I just watched Culpepper Cattle Co.and I was wondering if you or anyone might know who sings Amazing Grace on the movie? They sing it towards the end when they are putting their dead in the ground. Whom ever sings it has a wonderful singing voice. I would love to know who is singing the song in the movie. I have heard this song a lot but never as good as i heard it on the movie. Im hoping you can tell me or maybe someone who knows can tell me. My son and myself thought the movie was good and would love to see it again sometime. My son loves western movies and thats about all he will watch. He really enjoyed this movie.I think if your into westerns then you would enjoy this one. it's a 1972 movie and a very good movie to watch. thank you for your time, Im hoping someone can answer my question.