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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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)
William Haade as Frane Battles
Clara Kimball Young as Mrs. Wilson
Weldon Heyburn as 'Cheyenne'
Lane Chandler as Taggert
Lee 'Lasses' White as Sam Snead
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