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''Mackintosh and T.J.'' is a 1975 American modern day
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film starring
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in his last
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appearance in a film that was specifically written for him. Prior to this film his most recent feature film appearances were in the
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films '' Son of Paleface'' (1952) and 1959's '' Alias Jesse James'' (a cameo).


Plot

MacKintosh is an aging migrant cowboy drifting from ranch to ranch, taking whatever work is available. When stopping at a town for gas, plus water for his old truck's leaking radiator, he sees T.J., a 14-year-old recently released from doing clean up work for
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. Shopping for supplies, MacKintosh sights T.J. preparing to steal an apple while being watched by the store owner. MacKintosh pretends the boy is with him and pays for their supplies. Giving T.J. a ride the two realize they have much in common. Having left his single mother and not having been in school since
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), T.J. is off to work his way to the Pacific Ocean that he has never seen. When MacKintosh's vehicle breaks down T.J. catches a lift with a well dressed stranger on his way to
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as MacKintosh makes his repairs. Stopping for dinner in a bar that night, MacKintosh sights T.J. working as a
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in the bar. T.J. explains that the man who picked him up was "funny" (homosexual), and that made T.J. leave him as quickly as possible. A drunken loud cowboy named Cal misplaces his money and accuses T.J. of stealing. When Cal strikes T.J., MacKintosh knocks him down. Cal comes after MacKintosh with a knife, but MacKintosh knocks him down again by breaking a catsup bottle on his head. After the fight, it was discovered that Cal's money had fallen to the floor. T.J. and MacKintosh team up again. The pair find work at the 6666 Ranch run by Jim Webster, and MacKintosh impresses everyone when he breaks horses. T.J. is put to work cleaning up abandoned buildings. The work was to end after the horses were broken, but the man hired to trap coyotes was found with rabies, and Webster offers MacKintosh the sick man's job. He would live in a remote cabin, earn the wage of a ranch hand, plus get cash bounties for all coyotes he shoots. MacKintosh and T.J. settle in until accusations are made against the older man for his being too friendly to the battered wife of a ranch hand named Luke. At a birthday party for Webster Luke punches MacKintosh for standing next to his wife. MacKintosh says that he'll assume the alcohol Luke had been drinking caused his anger, so he'll forgive him. Then he warns that if Luke ever hits him again he'll beat him within an inch of his life. Late that evening a ranch hand, who is a
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, is caught by Luke looking into a window at his wife. The two have a knock-down fight and the ranch hand grabs hold of a rock and bashes it against Luke's head, killing the man. When Luke's wife telephones for help several ranch hands show up, assume MacKintosh is responsible, and go after him. They are prevented from killing him by Webster arriving on the scene and saying that the man is innocent. The Peeping Tom ranch hand had been wracked with guilt, wrote down what happened, and hung himself from the top of a windmill. MacKintosh and T.J. leave the ranch, and head for the Pacific Ocean, planning to look for work along the way.


Cast

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Roy Rogers Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye; November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), nicknamed the King of the Cowboys, was an American singer, actor, television host, and Rodeo, rodeo performer. Following early work under his given name, first as a c ...
as Mackintosh *Clay O'Brien as T J *
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as Luke * Andrew Robinson as Coley Phipps * Joan Hackett as Maggie * James Hampton as Cotton *
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as Schuster * Luke Askew as Cal * Walter Barnes as Jim Webster *
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as Mrs Webster * Larry Mahan as Dan


Production

Producer Tim Penland explained that the funding of the film came from twenty investors from
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and
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, who also played extras. On casting Roy Rogers, Penland said he was their first choice but it was challenging since Rogers hadn't acted in a motion picture over twenty years. Rogers said that "over the years I have been presented with scripts to entice me back to movies but I have not gone for any of them. I don't care for explicit violence — all that blood and guts over the screen. But the script for this film is worthy of viewing by all members of the family." The film was shot on Texas locations at the
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provided several songs for the film and released a
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. Former child star Claude Jarman Jr. acted as a production manager on the film.


See also

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List of American films of 1975 This is a list of American films released in 1975. Box office The highest-grossing American films released in 1975, by domestic box office gross revenue as estimated by '' The Numbers'', are as follows: January–March April–June Jul ...


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* {{Marvin J. Chomsky 1975 films Films shot in Texas 1975 Western (genre) films Films directed by Marvin J. Chomsky American Western (genre) films 1970s English-language films 1970s American films English-language Western (genre) films