Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Mabel Munoz Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

SamPamBam this is a horrible movie, having no redeeming value as entertainment .a most horrid experience to sit thru this embarrassing tripe.the people who thought this was a good idea had to be drunk.that's a better excuse than being deranged.and deranged is the only apt description for this horrid piece.

dbdumonteil This is an offbeat western ,with a strong documentary side.Gary Grimes is the all-American-boy who wants to experiment the hard cowboys life.And it avoids the usual clichés of the genre;after a bloody odyssey,we are not sure that the boy has grown into a man,like usually in this kind of screenplay.When he rides away,after the massacre,all we can guess is that he has probably lost his faith in God (if he had any) .No love interest, unless the scene with the hooker counts -here again the lad does not behave like he is supposed to .And no sentimental side either ,the Farewell-to-mom scene ,is so short that she has not even the time to ask him whether he will come back. No real friendship with the men,except perhaps from the boss.Bewildering.

chuck-reilly The 1972 film, "The Culpepper Cattle Co." strives for realism and relevancy, but ends up soaking viewers in a bloodbath of epic proportions. The plot is simple enough; young Gary Grimes plays a naive tenderfoot who joins up with a group of cowboys who are on a long cattle drive to Texas. The cowboys, including Geoffrey Lewis and Bo Hopkins, are a violent lot who think nothing of plugging anyone who gets in their way. Lewis, who specialized in playing psychopaths, is a bit more restrained here, but not by much. Hopkins basically repeats his lunatic role from "The Wild Bunch" with the same results. As the cattle drive progresses, Grimes gets into one scrape after another and it's a wonder that he's still alive and kicking by the final reel. The ending to this violent tale doesn't hold up either. After a group of religious squatters are threatened by a greedy landowner, the cowboys (prompted by Grimes) all band together to save them from certain destruction. This swift change to moral behavior doesn't really suit the boys, but they go down in a blaze of glory anyway. To add insult to injury, the "religious" squatters turn out to be nothing more than a group of cowardly hypocrites who weren't worth dying for in the first place. Grimes finds that out a little too late.Director Dick Richards faded away quickly after "Culpepper..." and that's too bad. He at least infused the film with some style and the performances were all first rate. Unfortunately, the story itself was far from original and has been done better in quite a a few other movies and with far more redeemable characters. There's also an over-abundance of unnecessary scenes. When Lewis challenges Matt Clark to a duel over a few swear words is one in particular and totally irrelevant to the plot. Clark is chased out of camp and his early exit from the film is a distraction. To put it mildly, there aren't too many people to root for in "Culpepper.." except for young Grimes, and that may be where the problem lies with the film. When nearly everyone is dead at the end of the movie, viewers will shed no tears, although they may heave a collective sigh of relief.

Gary Ingrey Having been brought up on a diet of westerns I count this as a little gem. Certainly part of the 70's revisionist set, with great lines like, "cowboyin's what you do when you can't do nuthin' else". Basically a rite of passage movie for Gary Grimes young wannabee cowboy, but with great characters from the 70's like Luke Askew, Geoffrey Lewis and Bo Hopkins.Grimes joins a cattle drive as the cook's helper, tries too hard to be a cowboy and ends up on the wrong side of the boss, Billy Green Bush, and when they come up against a ruthless landowner and some religious settlers it is the young cook's helper that takes a moral stand.Violent and beautifully shot, I recommend it to all lovers of film. Its not often seen on TV and is not available in the UK on DVD.