The Roundup
DON WILSON, Jack Benny's famous announcer...goes over big---but BIG---in his first screen comedy role!
1941-04-03 | 90 minutes
Plot Summary
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
Cast
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Richard DixSteve Payson
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Patricia MorisonJanet Allen (Payson)
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Preston FosterGreg Lane
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Don WilsonSheriff 'Slim' Hoover
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Ruth DonnellyPolly Hope
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Douglass DumbrilleCapt. Bob Lane
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Jerome CowanWade McGee
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Betty BrewerMary, Child Rescued by Greg Lane
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Morris Ankrum'Parenthesis'
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Dick CurtisEd Crandall (as Richard Curtis)
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William HaadeFrane Battles
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Clara Kimball YoungMrs. Wilson
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Weldon Heyburn'Cheyenne'
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Lane ChandlerTaggert
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Lee 'Lasses' WhiteSam Snead
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