Rancho Deluxe (1975)
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67% of critics liked it
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41% of users liked it
(1,464 ratings)
In Frank Perry's curious, off-center comedy Western, Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston play Jack McKee and Cecil Carlson, a couple of cattle rustlers whose special target is taciturn rancher John Brown (Clifton James). Both men are outcasts by choice; McKee can't stand being around his stuck-up… More In Frank Perry's curious, off-center comedy Western, Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston play Jack McKee and Cecil Carlson, a couple of cattle rustlers whose special target is taciturn rancher John Brown (Clifton James). Both men are outcasts by choice; McKee can't stand being around his stuck-up ex-wife (played by Doria Cook), while Carlson, an Indian, finds his fellow tribesmen too tradition-bound for his tastes. Together, they plan to lift themselves out of the penny-ante class with one big crime caper. Brown gets wind of their scheme, and sends private eye Henry Beige (Slim Pickens) after them. The cast is top-heavy with attractive women, ranging from Brown's bored wife, Cora (Elizabeth Ashley), to "camp followers" Betty Fargo (Patti D'Arbanville) and Mary Fargo (Maggie Wellman). Thomas McGuane authored the script; Jimmy Buffett provides the songs. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Frank Perry
- Written By
- Thomas McGuane
- Genres
- Western, Action & Adventure, Comedy, Cult Movies
R,
- In Theaters
- Mar 14, 1975 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Variety Staff, Variety
The humor is too throwaway when it isn't laid on with a trowel.
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, Time Out
In keeping with the audience it is aimed at, the film is self-consciously cynical and insolent, and at the same time fundamentally romantic and seeking to be liked. The combination works surprisingly well, thanks to good ensemble acting.
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Richard Eder, New York Times
It is so cool it is barely alive.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
There's nothing so hapless as a movie made in the wrong style, especially when the director doggedly insists on that style to the bitter end.
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Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Surprise: Frank Perry kept his wits about him long enough to make this mildly watchable 1974 film about the modern west.
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Cast
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Jeff Bridges
as Jack McKee
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Sam Waterston
as Cecil Colson
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Elizabeth Ashley
as Cora Brown
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Charlene Dallas
as Laura Beige
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Clifton James
as John Brown
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Slim Pickens
as Henry Beige
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Harry Dean Stanton
as Curt
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Richard Bright
as Burt
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Patti D'Arbanville
as Betty Fargo
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Maggie Wel Wellman
as Mary Fargo
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Jimmy Buffett
as Himself
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Bert Conway
as Wilbur Fargo
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Doria Cook
as Anna
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Ronda Copland
as Dee
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Helen Craig
as Mrs. Castle
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Patti Jerome
as Madame
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Sandy Kenyon
as Skinny Face
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Richard McMurray
as McKee
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John Quade
as Circular Face
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Jon Rodgers
as Clerk
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Joe Spinell
as Colson
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Joseph Sullivan
as Dizzy
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Anthony Palmer
as Karl
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Danna Hansen
as Mrs. McKee
- Sam Waterson
- Warren Oates
