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The Roundup (1941)

04/03/1941 (US)
01h 30m

DON WILSON, Jack Benny's famous announcer...goes over big---but BIG---in his first screen comedy role!

Overview

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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Richard Dix

Richard Dix

Steve Payson

Patricia Morison

Patricia Morison

Janet Allen (Payson)

Don Wilson

Don Wilson

Sheriff 'Slim' Hoover

Ruth Donnelly

Ruth Donnelly

Polly Hope

Douglass Dumbrille

Douglass Dumbrille

Capt. Bob Lane

Jerome Cowan

Jerome Cowan

Wade McGee

Betty Brewer

Betty Brewer

Mary, Child Rescued by Greg Lane

Morris Ankrum

Morris Ankrum

'Parenthesis'

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