The Roundup
DON WILSON, Jack Benny's famous announcer...goes over big---but BIG---in his first screen comedy role!
1941 en 90 minutes
Rating: 8
Plot
Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first filmed in 1920 with Fatty Arbuckle (no relation) in the lead. By the time the film was remade in 1941, Arbuckle's character, a roly-poly frontier sheriff named Slim (!), was refashioned as a supporting role, with Jack Benny's radio announcer Don Wilson essaying the part. The plot, however, remained fairly intact: Upon hearing that her fiance Greg (Preston Foster) has been killed, Janet (Patricia Morison) agrees to marry rancher Steve (Richard Dix) on the rebound. On the day of the wedding, who should show up but Greg, determined to raise as much Hell as humanly possible
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Cast
Richard Dix
Steve Payson
Patricia Morison
Janet Allen (Payson)
Preston Foster
Greg Lane
Don Wilson
Sheriff 'Slim' Hoover
Ruth Donnelly
Polly Hope
Douglass Dumbrille
Capt. Bob Lane
Jerome Cowan
Wade McGee
Betty Brewer
Mary, Child Rescued by Greg Lane
Morris Ankrum
'Parenthesis'
Dick Curtis
Ed Crandall (as Richard Curtis)
William Haade
Frane Battles
Clara Kimball Young
Mrs. Wilson
Weldon Heyburn
'Cheyenne'
Lane Chandler
Taggert
Lee 'Lasses' White
Sam Snead
