Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

jhkp This is just a great, enjoyable, modern western comedy. But it's not a laugh-a-minute type of comedy, more of an episodic, leisurely look a cowboy life. We follow the adventures of Ben Jones and Howdy Lewis (Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda) as they work for the snaky Jim Ed Love (Chill Wills, who's great), breaking in horses and gathering stray steers in the high country around Sedona, Arizona (back when it was a fairly sleepy little town).A lot of the film is concerned with how one particular horse owned by Mr. Love makes their life miserable, and how they try to sell him, give him away, and even fantasize about turning him into dog food...until *SPOILER* they get so attached to him...but we won't go into it.If you're looking for a clever plot, or any kind of plot, this really isn't the movie for you. Several people have written on here about how true to life this movie is re the lives of cowboys. Well, I'm from the east and have no idea what cowboy life is like but I can tell an authentic thing when I see it, and this has the feeling of authenticity about it. It's also an incredibly warm yet sharp and satiric look at people and work, human nature, etc.There's wonderful scenery, and a terrific music score by Jeff Alexander that underscores the humorous and the pastoral moments equally well.The cast is fantastic, with Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda, both great, and very well matched as the two leads, Edgar Buchanan marvelous as Vince, their friend with two daughters (the unrelated Joan and Kathleen Freeman, both excellent) and a penchant for making moonshine whiskey, Denver Pyle, Doodles Weaver, and in the last quarter of the picture (which becomes a more raucous comedy, suddenly) Sue Ane Langdon and Hope Holliday as a couple of cute strippers stranded in Sedona.I loved it and I hope you will too

vfrickey The Rounders is one of those oddly well-crafted movies which seems to have benefited from a fortunate gathering of the stars at its making. Good movie-making alone seems insufficient to account for its success; every frame of the film seems almost hand-painted; every minute scripted with more than common care (if not with up-to-date cinematic technique).Director and screenwriter Burt Kennedy is the center around which this gem of a movie formed - the same wry humor that has characterized most of his movie and TV productions shines through here (Kennedy created a small swath of "Simon and Simon" episodes, a span of "Combat" episodes, little, memorable Westerns like "Dirty Dingus Magee," a little of almost every genre before passing on in 2001.) The cast, though, was one of those companies of actors you didn't often see together in low-budget Westerns then (1965) and still don't often see thirty-some years later. And, for a wonder, every actor and actress - from a remarkable cast - pulled his or her weight.Denver Pyle ("Bull") would go on to anchor "The Dukes of Hazzard" as "Uncle Jesse" after a life in Westerns; Edgar Buchanan (as the irascible "Vince Moore," creator of "that wonderful stuff" in a still located under his barn floor) was just embarking on a long stretch of soft duty as "Uncle Joe" in "Petticoat Junction," plus a number of cameo roles in various other TV and movie projects after spending a good career in movies; Sue Ane Langdon was playing one of a number of sexy/innocent ingenue roles that ran from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, then after a short hiatus, she would go on to play a series of older roles); Chill Wills would stay with the role of tightwad ranch owner "Jim Ed Love" for the movie AND the TV show which spun off of it the following year. "The Rounders - The TV Series" ran in the 1966 and 1967 seasons, not a bad run, considering the two leads were replaced by younger, less seasoned actors (including Patrick Wayne as "Howdy Lewis"); not only do we see Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda as the stars of this rollicking epic but as a bonus, Peter Ford and Peter Fonda (sons of the stars) appear in uncredited roles.The production, if it can be said to have a weak spot, suffers from Disney Disease - that bogus-homespun touch which afflicted Disney's Wonderful World of Color's series of outdoor documentaries (in which announcers with wrinkly, familiar old voices narrated carefully-edited wildlife documentaries in which little baby animals hardly ever got caught by predators). Fortunately, the screenwriter played off of this ambiance for laughs, so that the overall feel is something like "Mister Roberts Goes West." Fonda ("Howdy Lewis")and Ford ("Ben Jones") work well together on screen as a pair of itinerant, half-clever cowboys who seem always to get the worst from every deal they make with Jim Ed Love. Both actors spent time with the novel, apparently, and their performances benefited from the extra work. This compensates for clumsy special effects (clumsily faked double takes from the "plug-head" horse who is the bane of "Howdy's" existence, for example).But "The Rounders'" main failing is also its saving grace - an artlessness which makes the show much more enjoyable (to me, anyway) than if it had been a little more polished. It earns a solid eight out of ten points for a great off-beat Western comedic style. "The Rounders" may just be the last good OLD Western movie; the genre lay in a restless, unquiet coma with brief flashes of lucidity (and a few unlamented "electric westerns") until Clint Eastwood and a handful of other talented directors brought it back to vibrant life. But "The Rounders" is a valedictory for all of those great westerns (and all the not-so-great ones that were worth having, anyway) that Henry Fonda, Glenn Ford, Chill Wills, Edgar Buchanan, Denver Pyle and all the rest of those guys gave us.

bkoganbing So said the agreeable Henry Fonda to just about every suggestion Glenn Ford or other cast members made to him.This the first of a series of very agreeable entertaining comic westerns that Burt Kennedy directed and/or wrote starring some of Hollywood's great but aging male stars. I think for the first and only time both Ford and Fonda play a pair of losers. They seem to forever be in financial bondage to their off-and-on employer Chill Wills. Wills just out-slickers Ford and Fonda just goes along with that line that must have been repeated about 8 times in The Rounders.But their biggest problem comes from a white-faced roan horse that Wills has talked the gullible Ford into taking. The horse named "Old Fooler" has a streak of cunning malevolence that provides most of the laughs in this comedy. If there was a special award given to animals for performances Old Fooler should have won it in 1965. In fact that horse created his own acting genre, the animal anti-hero.Burt Kennedy gave us a lot of good laughs starting in the mid60s with his films and this is one of the funniest.

kenandraf Very weak story in this movie's attempt to portray the funny side of modern cowboy life.Good cinematography and but below average directing coupled with bad screenplay and script.Fonda and Close did a great job though and they really looked dashing.Recomended only for Close/Fonda fans and also for big fans of western comedy movies......