Word: fondas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROUNDERS. This amiable western spoof is enlivened by Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford as a team of shiftless bronco-busters trapped in a love-hate relationship with an obstreperous horse...
...soon, the sham preacher helps a cattle rustler escape from jail. Persuaded to hide the hot-blooded crook in her Pullman berth, Catherine (Jane Fonda) begins to reveal a flair for lawlessness and disorder that turns out to be her most endearing trait. After she blows into Wolf City at gale force, her father is murdered for his land by a hired gunfighter (Lee Marvin). Catherine becomes "Cat," an outlaw queen who scourges the countryside assisted by the amorous rustler, his prayerful accomplice, a Beatle-thatched Indian, and a drunken, generally unemployable gunfighter she can call her own (Lee Marvin...
...ROUNDERS. This amiable western spoof is enlivened by Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford as a team of shiftless bronco-busters trapped in a love-hate relationship with an obstreperous horse...
...Rounders is an amiable knuckle-headed western about two lumpish modern cowpokes and their love-hate relationship with an obstreperous horse. Howdy (Henry Fonda) and Ben (Glenn Ford) ride the range in a deplorable old Dodge pickup, fleeing the specter of steady jobs. While Fonda broods about the plump divorcee he loved and lost at a dude ranch, Ford dreams of escape to a desert isle "where there ain't no grass, ain't no horses." Then the bronc-busters' skill is challenged by a blaze-faced roan given to bucking, biting and occasional drunkenness...
Though Writer-Director Burt Kennedy often pitches for the brand of horse laughs that usually issue from Walt Disney's stable, most of The Rounders is high dry comedy. Ford and Fonda, clearly relishing their antiheroic roles, perform with the brisk assurance of men who have won the West so often that they know just how to spoof...