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...south Missouri hamlet of Elkland (pop. 200), they found James Schnick rolling on the floor and wailing in pain from a gunshot and stab wounds. He had spotted an unknown intruder in the house and fatally stabbed him after a ferocious struggle, he told Webster County Sheriff Eugene Fraker. In the bedroom Schnick's wife lay dead, shot twice in the head. The mysterious intruder, who was sprawled dead in the hallway, a .22-cal. pistol clutched in his hand, turned out to be Kirk Buckner, Schnick's 14-year-old nephew...
...Doug Fraker, also a second year student, says, "In college you could go into just about any dorm on any night of the week and see kids smoking dope and partying, but at Vanderbilt that just doesn't happen." He adds, "Things are always pretty quiet--there are very few stereos and nobody plays them loud...
...script owes some of its incident and much of its spirit to Monte Walsh, both the Jack Schaefer novel and William Fraker's underrated film version. But Culpepper is less about growing old than coming of age. Ben Mockridge (Gary Grimes) is barely past his teens when he talks Trail Boss Frank Culpepper (Billy "Green" Bush) into taking him along on a drive. Ben is hired on as "little Mary" (cook's helper), and he has to work his predictable way up from there...
Mutrux and Cinematographer William Fraker capture the feeling: the neon and chromium, the chili-dog stands, the freeways, the drive-in stereo stores and the supermarkets. Nearly all of the characters are played by junkies, not actors. They relive their lives for a camera that observes compassionately as each fix brings them that much closer to self-destruction. Mutrux views his characters as victims, if rather romantic ones. That attitude lends his film a distinct but unsatisfactory ambiguity...
...gives it all up to wed the hardware-store widow, but Monte won't relinquish his ways even for the golden-hearted, dross-tongued whore (Jeanne Moreau) he loves. By the time the film ends, just about everyone has been killed off except Marvin and Director Wil liam Fraker, who might well have been the first target...