excruciate tenderfoot western have young and overeager greenhorn gary grime beg beard and salty cattle boss billy green bush for a job on his cattle drive to get away from life on the farm with ma and but also to be a real cowboy and apparently an occupation you take up when you can not do nothing else . director dick richards make some good movie in the 70 and but his debut here lack substance ( it deliberately lack heart ) . grime be so open mouth innocent that he can not even help cook dinner without look repulse by the process . when he assign to stand watch over the horse and it entirely predictable he will run afoul of horse thief ( after be leave bloody and horseless by the scurrilous gang and bos bush of course blame the naive kid and not himself for neglect to get an experienced cowboy on the post ) . this isn not on the invite level of jack lemmon klutzy attempt to be a cowpoke while richards seem to have be raise on tv western and and give u a scenario lift straight from the tube . while we wait for the kid to harden and become a man and be treat to fake high drama feature a weary old cast of character actor ( if ever you want fake drama infuse into the proceeding and you get bo hopkins or geoffrey lewis or anthony james this picture have all three ) . the dusty cinematography help give the movie an appropriately dirty and mud and blood appearance . yet and the minute the actor start speaking and it lose vitality and conviction and and interest . from .