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The Round Up <\/i>(1920)<\/strong><\/p>\n Director:\u00a0 George Melford<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay: Tom Forman; <\/strong>adapted from the play by Edmund Day<\/strong><\/p>\n Stars:\u00a0 Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Wallace Beery <\/strong>and Buster Keaton.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tagline: Nobody loves a fat man.<\/em><\/p>\n The Plot…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Slim Hoover is the Sheriff of the frontier town Lonesome Pine.\u00a0 Although adept with a gun, Slim often uses his quick wit to get the drop on the bad hombres.<\/p>\n Dick Lane is almost ready to head back to Lonesome Pine after success prospecting alone in the desert.\u00a0 Once home Dick plans to marry Echo Allen.\u00a0 Unfortunately, that is not to be.\u00a0 Mexican bandits led by the “half-breed” Buck McKee shoot, rob and leave Dick for dead.<\/p>\n When Dick doesn’t return, Jack Payson tells Echo he will ride out and find him.\u00a0 As Jack is about to go Buck McKee rides up. Buck says he was prospecting with Dick when they were attacked by Mexican bandits.\u00a0 He says that he and Dick put up a fight, but there were too many.\u00a0 Dick was shot.\u00a0 Before he died, Dick asked Buck to escape and bring word to Echo.<\/p>\n What Buck doesn’t know is that although Dick was near death, Mexican Federales saved him.\u00a0 It will take years for Dick to recover enough to return home.\u00a0 Meanwhile Jack and Echo fall in love.\u00a0 After three years pass, Echo agrees to marry Jack.<\/p>\n On the night Echo and Jack are to be wed, Dick returns.\u00a0 It turns out the bandits didn’t get all of Dick’s gold.\u00a0 Dick has enough cash to pay Jack the $3,000.00 he owes him.\u00a0 Jack and Dick meet.\u00a0 Jack accepts the $3,000.00.\u00a0 Dick learns that Echo and Jack are about to be wed.\u00a0 Since no one else has seen him, Dick leaves.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Buck McKee decides the wedding will provide cover to rob the express agent’s office which is full of cash. The robbery goes sideways when Buck kills the express agent.\u00a0 Buck takes the money.\u00a0 He then heads to the wedding so he will have an alibi.<\/p>\n The robbery and murder are discovered.\u00a0 The wedding guests are shocked.\u00a0 Buck falls under suspicion. But Buck has seen the large amount of cash Jack has hidden. Buck tells everyone about it. Suddenly Jack becomes the number one suspect.\u00a0 Jack can’t explain the cash without admitting that Dick is still alive.\u00a0 That could cost him Echo.<\/p>\n Buck incites the crowd to get justice NOW.\u00a0 The mob gets worked up for a necktie party.<\/p>\n It will be up to Sheriff Slim to save Jack and see justice is served.<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n The Round Up<\/em> was Fatty Arbuckle’s first feature film.\u00a0 Arbuckle had made over 120 comedy shorts prior to this film.<\/p>\n The Round Up<\/em> was first a successful Broadway play that starred Fatty’s cousin Macklin Arbuckle.\u00a0 Tom Forman adapted the play and co-starred as Jack.\u00a0 Because Fatty’s next comedy wasn’t ready, he was tapped to play Sheriff Slim.\u00a0 The role earned him some of the best reviews of his career.<\/p>\n The Round Up<\/em> was the first film to be shot in Lonesome Pine, California.\u00a0 Over 300 more westerns would use the location.<\/p>\n Buster Keaton appears (uncredited) in two scenes as one of the attacking Indians.<\/p>\n The Round Up <\/i>(1920)<\/strong> rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n The Round Up (1920) Director:\u00a0 George Melford Screenplay: Tom Forman; adapted from the play by Edmund Day Stars:\u00a0 Roscoe “Fatty”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42184,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42106\/revisions\/42184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\")
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