The Rounders
starring: Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Sue Ane Langdon, Hope Holiday, Chill Wills
directed by: Burt Kennedy
directed by: Burt Kennedy
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Burt Kennedy wrote several of the finest Westerns ever for director BuddBoetticher in the late '50s--marvels of austere, subtle storytelling. Yet on hisown, writer-director Kennedy tended to very broad comedy-Westerns. TheRounders, based on a novel by Max Evans, falls somewhere between SupportYour Local Sheriff (high) and Dirty Dingus Magee (low). Glenn Fordand Henry Fonda play two bronc busters in the pickup-driving West who, by theirown admission, "ain't exactly the smartest cowboys that ever lived." Somehowthey always end up owing rancher Jim Ed Love (Chill Wills) one more year ofindentured servitude. The year we observe is dominated by a purely diabolicalroan and capped by a randy brush with two showgirls (Sue Ane Langdon and HopeHoliday) who play "Dumber" to Ford and Fonda's "Dumb."It's all very amiableand unassuming, but the toot-plunk-whistle-boom soundtrack--to signal "This isthe funny part"--is sheer torture. --Richard T. Jameson
Burt Kennedy wrote several of the finest Westerns ever for director BuddBoetticher in the late '50s--marvels of austere, subtle storytelling. Yet on hisown, writer-director Kennedy tended to very broad comedy-Westerns. TheRounders, based on a novel by Max Evans, falls somewhere between SupportYour Local Sheriff (high) and Dirty Dingus Magee (low). Glenn Fordand Henry Fonda play two bronc busters in the pickup-driving West who, by theirown admission, "ain't exactly the smartest cowboys that ever lived." Somehowthey always end up owing rancher Jim Ed Love (Chill Wills) one more year ofindentured servitude. The year we observe is dominated by a purely diabolicalroan and capped by a randy brush with two showgirls (Sue Ane Langdon and HopeHoliday) who play "Dumber" to Ford and Fonda's "Dumb."It's all very amiableand unassuming, but the toot-plunk-whistle-boom soundtrack--to signal "This isthe funny part"--is sheer torture. --Richard T. Jameson
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- Delightful modern comedy Western
This amiable modern Western benefits enormously from the casting of the great genre veterans Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford as two veteran cowboys ,forever on the verge of abandoning their nomadic lifestyle and settling down ,but never quite making it.The movie revolves around their attempts to tame an especially recalitrant bronco named Ol Fooler-who it is suggested is a little like the two men in being stubborn ,hard to tame and determined to go his own way but likeable andwho eventually will be ... Read More
Rating: - Is this studio snoring?
Glenn Ford was one of our Western greats yet many of his greatest movies are unavailable on DVD. What gives???? When does this one come out on DVD? And while we're at it where's "The Fastest Gun Alive" on DVD, or where period is "The Sheepman"? Some Executives must be rollin' in the dough because they absolutely seem to refuse to make another buck.
Rating: - So where's the DVD?
This great comedy is about two modern-day hard-luck cowboys who are always getting into a bind, and when they do, their boss is always there to bail them out of their trouble ... and into his debt (hence the name "Rounders"). As a result, they always owe him money, and to pay him back, they have to do the jobs no one else will. Paticularly funny are the scenes with the two air-head women they encounter toward the end. A great movie!
SO WHERE IS THE DVD ???
Rating: - THE ROUNDERS-THE ORIGINAL
I'n not talking of Matt Damon's "The rounders"..I'm taking about two great Hollywood ALL STARS...GLENN FORD & HENRY FONDA...with CHILL WILLS..their bossman!!This is a mordern day western with pure crayiness..about two cowpokes breaking in horses to live.
FORD & FONDA...much like...STEWART & FONDA..were so GREAT!
Fonda..with his repeating funny line.."What ever pleases you..pleases me to heck..." And the great STILL GLENN FORD...trying to break a horse & promises to have the horse made ... Read More
Rating: - 'Whatever you want to do just tickles me to death'
Director: Burt Kennedy
Format: Color
Studio: Warner Home Video
Video Release Date: June 30, 1993
Cast:
Glenn Ford
Henry Fonda
Chill Wills
This is a wonderful comedy about two old cowboys (Fonda and Ford) who whoop off their money in town, and then are forced by necessity to go back to work for the winter working for a niggardly rancher (Chill Wills), 'topping off' (breaking) wild cayuses and rounding up wild cattle.Then, in the ... Read More
- Delightful modern comedy WesternThis amiable modern Western benefits enormously from the casting of the great genre veterans Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford as two veteran cowboys ,forever on the verge of abandoning their nomadic lifestyle and settling down ,but never quite making it.The movie revolves around their attempts to tame an especially recalitrant bronco named Ol Fooler-who it is suggested is a little like the two men in being stubborn ,hard to tame and determined to go his own way but likeable andwho eventually will be ... Read More
- Is this studio snoring?Glenn Ford was one of our Western greats yet many of his greatest movies are unavailable on DVD. What gives???? When does this one come out on DVD? And while we're at it where's "The Fastest Gun Alive" on DVD, or where period is "The Sheepman"? Some Executives must be rollin' in the dough because they absolutely seem to refuse to make another buck.
- So where's the DVD?This great comedy is about two modern-day hard-luck cowboys who are always getting into a bind, and when they do, their boss is always there to bail them out of their trouble ... and into his debt (hence the name "Rounders"). As a result, they always owe him money, and to pay him back, they have to do the jobs no one else will. Paticularly funny are the scenes with the two air-head women they encounter toward the end. A great movie!
SO WHERE IS THE DVD ???
- THE ROUNDERS-THE ORIGINALI'n not talking of Matt Damon's "The rounders"..I'm taking about two great Hollywood ALL STARS...GLENN FORD & HENRY FONDA...with CHILL WILLS..their bossman!!This is a mordern day western with pure crayiness..about two cowpokes breaking in horses to live.
FORD & FONDA...much like...STEWART & FONDA..were so GREAT!
Fonda..with his repeating funny line.."What ever pleases you..pleases me to heck..." And the great STILL GLENN FORD...trying to break a horse & promises to have the horse made ... Read More
- 'Whatever you want to do just tickles me to death'Director: Burt Kennedy
Format: Color
Studio: Warner Home Video
Video Release Date: June 30, 1993
Cast:
Glenn Ford
Henry Fonda
Chill Wills
This is a wonderful comedy about two old cowboys (Fonda and Ford) who whoop off their money in town, and then are forced by necessity to go back to work for the winter working for a niggardly rancher (Chill Wills), 'topping off' (breaking) wild cayuses and rounding up wild cattle.Then, in the ... Read More
