I had seen the box for this movie in video stores over the years but never checked it out. I assumed it was a comedy based on the alliterative title. I may have related it to The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County. Stars teen actor Gary Grimes.
Grimes first starred in Summer of '42 as a kid who does nothing but talk about sex and goes to bed with a war widow. The Culpepper Cattle Co. was his second starring role as a teen who desperately wants to be a cowboy. He gets hired to go on a cattle drive, serving as their "Little Mary" which is what they call the cook's assistant.
The movie went for gritty realism, but I like to think it was grittier than it was realistic. Cowboys keep getting into gunfights with cattle rustlers, horse thieves, and, in the end, a greedy land baron extorting money from them because their cattle was on his land. It turns out that a religious commune has also stopped on land he considers to be his and he plans to murder them---that's what they do to squatters there. The commune members refuse to leave but also refuse to fight. This leads to the final confrontation.
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