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The Culpepper Cattle Co. or Dust, Sweat and Gunpowder (Australian title) is a 1972 Revisionist Western film produced by Twentieth Century Fox. It was directed by Dick Richards and starred Billy Green Bush as Frank Culpepper and Gary Grimes as Ben Mockridge. This was the first credited film for Jerry Bruckheimer, for which he received an associate producer credit. Its tagline is "How many men do you have to kill before you become the great American cowboy?" and also "The boy from Summer of '42 becomes a man on the cattle drive of 1866", which references a similar coming of age film starting Gary Grimes. The film is typical of the "hyper-realism" of many early 1970s revisionist westerns. It is particularly noted for its grainy photography and use of sepia toning in some scenes.
Original Release
04/15/1972
US Release
04/15/1972
Cast
Name | Character |
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Gary Grimes | Ben Mockridge |
Billy Green Bush | Frank Culpepper |
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 |
Directors
Writers
Dick Richards, Eric Bercovici, Gregory Prentiss
Cast
Name | Character |
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Gary Grimes | Ben Mockridge |
Billy Green Bush | Frank Culpepper |
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 / Tim Slater (as Charlie Martin Smith) |
Larry Finley | Mr. Slater |
Bob Morgan | Old John |
Jan Burrell | Mrs. Mockridge |
Hal Needham | Burgess |
Jerry Gatlin | Wallop |
Bob Orrison | Rutter |
Walter Scott | |
Royal Dano | Cattle Rustler |
Paul Harper | Trapper |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jerry Bruckheimer | Producer |
Paul Helmick | Producer |