The Roundup
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
Richard Dix
as Steve Payson
Patricia Morison
as Janet Allen (Payson)
Preston Foster
as Greg Lane
Don Wilson
as Sheriff 'Slim' Hoover
Ruth Donnelly
as Polly Hope
Douglass Dumbrille
as Capt. Bob Lane
Jerome Cowan
as Wade McGee
Betty Brewer
as Mary, Child Rescued by Greg Lane
Morris Ankrum
as 'Parenthesis'
Dick Curtis
as Ed Crandall (as Richard Curtis)
