Release Date

03 Apr, 1941

Runtime

01:30: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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

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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Actors

Richard Dix

Patricia Morison

Preston Foster

Don Wilson

Ruth Donnelly

Douglass Dumbrille

Jerome Cowan

Betty Brewer

Morris Ankrum

Dick Curtis

William Haade

Clara Kimball Young

Weldon Heyburn

Lane Chandler

Lee 'Lasses' White

Crew

Lesley Selander

Edmund Day

Harold Shumate