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The Cowboys
Why this pick
Like The Culpepper Cattle Co., it turns a cattle drive into a hard apprenticeship, pairing youthful idealism with rough work, danger, and an unsentimental view of frontier masculinity.
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MOVIE1972 1h 32m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Ben Mockridge (Gary Grimes) is a young man proud of his $4 handgun and enamored of "cowboyin. He asks Frank Culpepper (Billy Green Bush) if he can join his cattle drive to Fort Lewis, Colorado. Culpepper (a reformed gunslinger) reluctantly agrees and sends Ben to the cook (Raymond Guth) to be his "little Mary".
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Gary Grimes
Ben Mockridge
Billy Green Bush
Frank Culpepper
Bo Hopkins
Dixie Brick
Geoffrey Lewis
Russ
Wayne Sutherlin
Missoula
Raymond Guth
Cook
Anthony James
Nathaniel
Larry Finley
Mr. Slater