The_Round_Up_(1941_film)

<i>The Round Up</i> (1941 film)

The Round Up (1941 film)

1941 film by Lesley Selander

The Round Up is a 1941 American Western film directed by Lesley Selander and written by Harold Shumate. The film stars Richard Dix, Patricia Morison, Preston Foster, Don Wilson, Ruth Donnelly, Jerome Cowan and Douglass Dumbrille. The film was released on April 4, 1941, by Paramount Pictures.[1][2][3]

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It is a remake of the 1920 silent film The Round-Up, and is noteworthy for casting Wilson (best known as Jack Benny's announcer) in a rare dramatic role as the tubby sheriff originally played by Roscoe Arbuckle.

Plot

At Janet Allen's wedding to Steve Payson, owner of the Sweetwater Cattle Ranch, her former fiancée Greg Lane, whom she thought dead, turns up. Greg disregards the fact she is now a married woman and tries to make love to her behind her husband's back.

Soon, on the Sweetwater ranch, against a background of Indian uprisings, rustlers, gun-running and bandits, the young bride is torn between loyalty to her husband and a burning love for her returned sweetheart.

Cast

References

  1. [1]
    "The Round Up (1941) - Overview". TCM.com. March 12, 1941. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
  2. [2]
    T.S. (March 13, 1941). "Movie Review - The Roundup - At Loew's Criterion". NYTimes.com. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
  3. [3]
    "The Round Up". Afi.com. Retrieved November 1, 2015.


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