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The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)

Director:Dick Richards
Writers:Dick Richards (story)
Eric Bercovici (screenplay) 

Cast  (Cast overview, first billed only)
 Gary Grimes ...  Ben Mockridge 
 Billy Green Bush ...  Frank Culpepper (as Billy "Green" Bush) 
 Luke Askew ...  Luke 
 Bo Hopkins ...  Dixie Brick 

 Geoffrey Lewis ...  Russ 
 Wayne Sutherlin ...  Missoula 
 John McLiam ...  Thorton Pierce 
 Matt Clark ...  Pete 
 Raymond Guth ...  Cook 
 Anthony James ...  Nathaniel 

 Charles Martin Smith ...  Tim Slater (as Charlie Martin Smith) 
 Larry Finley ...  Mr. Slater 
 Bob Morgan ...  Old John 
 Jan Burrell ...  Mrs. Mockridge 
 Hal Needham ...  Burgess 

Teenager Ben Mockridge feels life in a Wild West farm town has nothing better to offer then horse-cart racing with other hicks, so he naively begs cattle company owner Frank Culpepper to engage him as youngest cowboy for a long cattle trail to a fort, his mother barely notices. Ben doesn"t even seem to get it when he"s told to report as "little Mary" to the old cook, whose words cowboy is something you do only if you have nothing better gradually become clear. Instead of an exciting heroic macho life, it"s endless hard work, dumb chores and embarrassment, even getting literally caught with his pants down, robbed of his horse, witnessing unpunished crimes... 

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