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The Culpepper Cattle Co., written by director Dick Richards, Eric Bercovici and Gregory Prentiss, gets a very limited release. Fresh from his much-lauded performance in Summer of '42, Gary Grimes steps back to 1866 to play a young greenhorn who successfully lobbies the owner of the titular outfit to take him on as an apprentice on an upcoming cattle drive to Colorado. Ill-prepared for the unforgiving harshness of life on a trail littered with horse thieves, cattle rustlers and crazy bible bashers, it soons becomes apparent that the wild west is no country for a guileless, wide-eyed innocent packing a four dollar gun. A decidely unromanticised, coming of age parable with a sepia-toned pallete rich in period detail and atmosphere. Also starring Billy Green Bush, Geoffrey Lewis, Bo Hopkins and Luke Askew.
