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Burt Kennedy wrote several of the finest Westerns ever for director Budd Boetticher in the late '50s--marvels of austere, subtle storytelling. Yet on his own, writer-director Kennedy tended to very broad comedy-Westerns. The Rounders, based on a novel by Max Evans, falls somewhere between Support Your Local Sheriff (high) and Dirty Dingus Magee (low). Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda play two bronc busters in the pickup-driving West who, by their own admission, 'ain't exactly the smartest cowboys that ever lived.' Somehow they always end up owing rancher Jim Ed Love (Chill Wills) one more year of indentured servitude. The year we observe is dominated by a purely diabolical roan and capped by a randy brush with two showgirls (Sue Ane Langdon and Hope Holiday) who play 'Dumber' to Ford and Fonda's 'Dumb.' lt's all very amiable and unassuming, but the toot-plunk-whistle-boom soundtrack--to signal 'This is the funny part'--is sheer torture. --Richard T. Jameson

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Buyer's feedback: - * 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 and who eventually will be coerced back into the mainstream

There is not a tightly constructed plot as such ,more a series of incidents heavy on the humour which -be aware ,is often slightly risque (there is a shot of bare bottoms for example which may bother the more prudish ).

Ford and Fonda are wonderful as you might expect from two actors who always looked at home in the saddle and they bring authority and unforced pathos to the roles .Sue Ann Langdon and Hope Holliday as the two women who waylay them along the road ,are equally fine and Burt Kennedy directs with assurance and a relaxed authority .The photography is warm and mellow -just like the rest of this always funny ,often tender and frequently hilarious gem of a movie

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Buyer's feedback: - 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.

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Buyer's feedback: - * 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 ???

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Buyer's feedback: - 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 into soap..so he can bath in it.,..is very,very funny.M-G-M Studios..made it..So come on M-G-M..dust off a real winner in mordern western comedy.RELEASDED THIS BABY ON DVD & WIDESCREEN!!
Mr.Ford & Mr.Fonda deserves to share with the good old boys!!

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Buyer's feedback: - * '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 Spring, the cycle is repeated with the same result.

On the ranch there is as a roan horse that is strongly reminiscent of the strawberry roan of Marty Robbins' song, which the boys view with a love/hate relationship. They end up owning him, in lieu of payment for some of their work.

The two meet two airheaded girls, with predictable results, and the story develops from there.

I found the movie entertaining, hilarious, and I hope you do too.

Joseph (Joe) Pierre
author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
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