Main Cast: Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew, Bo Hopkins, Geoffrey Lewis
Release Year: 1972
Country: US
Run Time: 92 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
Plot
Gary Grimes stars in this revisionist western as Ben Mockridge, a 16-year-old boy who has long dreamed of living the life of a cowboy. Wanting adventure, he persuades Frank Culpepper (Billy Green Bush) to take him along on a cattle drive, and Ben learns the hard way just how lonesome, exhausting, and violent the life of a cowhand can be. As one of the men on the drive puts it, "Being a cowboy is what you do when you can't do anything else." Hal Needham, who would later direct a string of successful films starring Burt Reynolds, can be spotted in a small role as Burgess, one of the cowboys. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Jack Martin Smith - Art Director, Carl Anderson - Art Director, Ted Parvin - Costume Designer, Terry Morse, Jr. - First Assistant Director, Dick Richards - Director, John F. Burnett - Editor, Jerry Goldsmith - Composer (Music Score), Tom Scott - Composer (Music Score), Ralph A. Woolsey - Cinematographer, Lawrence Edward Williams - Cinematographer, Jerry Bruckheimer - Producer, Paul Helmick - Producer, Walter Scott - Set Designer, Don Bassman - Sound/Sound Designer, Jesus Gonzalez Gancy - Sound/Sound Designer, Richard Overton - Sound/Sound Designer, Eric Bercovici - Screenwriter, Gregory Prentiss - Screenwriter
