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  • Hollywood Round-Up (1937)
  • Passed
    54 min | Western
Hollywood Round-Up (1937)
Passed
54 min | Western

One of three films made by Columbia circa 1936-37 based on behind-the-scenes film making with a "western" setting ("The Cowboy Star", "Hollywood Round-up" and "It Happened in Hollywood"), plus RKO weighed in the same year with George ...See moreOne of three films made by Columbia circa 1936-37 based on behind-the-scenes film making with a "western" setting ("The Cowboy Star", "Hollywood Round-up" and "It Happened in Hollywood"), plus RKO weighed in the same year with George O'Brien's "Hollywood Cowboy." It had been done before, RKO's 1933 "Scarlet River", and would be done again, "Shooting High" from 20th Century-Fox and Republic's "Bells of Rosarita", among others with a western setting, but this Coronet production with Buck Jones may well be the best of the lot as it devotes more footage to actual film-making both on studio sets and locations. One out-of-the norm plot incident has the studio head Lew Wallace offering a job to a fading star Carol Stevens, with a semi-apology for casting her in what he calls an "outdoor special" and she calls a "horse opry", and this scene in a B-western leaves no doubt that the B-western and it people were near the bottom of Hollywood's pecking order. The stereotypes are there, with Shemp Howard's over-zealous "assistant director" (who does calm down and gets more real when he loses his whistle), the ego-ridden "star" in Grant Drexel, and the deserving-to-be-the-star relegated to stand-in and stunts Buck Kennedy, but the remaining crew and player roles are realistic (especially the real stuntmen playing stuntmen). Buck Kennedy is the stand-in and double for star Grant Drexel and is fired when he has a fight with the bullying Drexel over Drexel's treatment of leading lady Carol Stephens. The movie company is on location, and a group of gangsters led by Eddie Kane and Lester Dorr, posing as another movie company, come to the location town and talk the banker into letting them film a fake holdup in his bank, but the holdup is real and the out-of-work Buck, whom they hire as the fall guy to cover their getaway, is left holding the bag and jailed by town sheriff Slim Whitaker. Things get worse for Buck before they get better. A mid-point sequence has hotel clerk George A. Beranger, who dreams of being a western star, performing a twittering, ballet-slippering audition for the checking-in film company by quoting lines from a western and asking them to identify the film. Shemp Howard guesses "Little Women." Written by Les Adams See less
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Director
Writers
Joseph Hoffman (original story and screenplay) | Monroe Shaff (original story and screenplay) | Ethel La Blanche (dialogue)
Producer
Cinematographer
Allen Q. Thompson (as Allen Thompson)
Editor
Robert O. Crandall (as Robert Crandall)
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Nov 6, 1937 (United States)

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31 cast members
Name Known for
Buck Jones
Buck Kennedy Buck Kennedy   See fewer
Helen Twelvetrees
Carol Stephens Carol Stephens   See fewer
Grant Withers
Grant Drexel Grant Drexel   See fewer
Shemp Howard
Oscar Bush Oscar Bush   See fewer
Dickie Jones
Dickie Stephens Dickie Stephens   See fewer
Eddie Kane
Henry Wescott Henry Wescott   See fewer
Monte Collins
Freddie Foster (as Monty Collins) Freddie Foster (as Monty Collins)   See fewer
Warren Jackson
Director Perry King Director Perry King   See fewer
Lester Dorr
Louis Lawson Louis Lawson   See fewer
Lee Shumway
Banker Dunning Banker Dunning   See fewer
Edward Keane
Lew Wallace Lew Wallace   See fewer
George Beranger
Hotel Clerk (as George A. Beranger) Hotel Clerk (as George A. Beranger)   See fewer
Steve Clark
Deputy (uncredited) Deputy (uncredited)   See fewer
Roger Daniel
Actor (uncredited) Actor (uncredited)   See fewer
George DeNormand
Saloon Brawler (uncredited) Saloon Brawler (uncredited)   See fewer
Frank Ellis
Saloon Set Extra (uncredited) Saloon Set Extra (uncredited)   See fewer
Donald Kerr
Movie Set Crewman (uncredited) Movie Set Crewman (uncredited)   See fewer
Johnny Luther
Presentation Musician (uncredited) Presentation Musician (uncredited)   See fewer
Cliff Lyons
Saloon Set Brawler (uncredited) Saloon Set Brawler (uncredited)   See fewer
William McCall
Saloon Set Extra (uncredited) Saloon Set Extra (uncredited)   See fewer
Merrill McCormick
Saloon Set Extra (uncredited) Saloon Set Extra (uncredited)   See fewer
Bill Patton
Jail Deputy (uncredited) Jail Deputy (uncredited)   See fewer
George Plues
Saloon Brawler (uncredited) Saloon Brawler (uncredited)   See fewer
Catherine Sanford
Actress (uncredited) Actress (uncredited)   See fewer
Harry Semels
Tony Papalini (uncredited) Tony Papalini (uncredited)   See fewer
Silver
Silver - Buck's Horse (uncredited) Silver - Buck's Horse (uncredited)   See fewer
Rudy Sooter
Presentation Musician (uncredited) Presentation Musician (uncredited)   See fewer
Slim Whitaker
Sheriff (uncredited) Sheriff (uncredited)   See fewer
Bob Woodward
Bank Robber Posing as Cowboy Actor (uncredited) Bank Robber Posing as Cowboy Actor (uncredited)   See fewer
Hank Worden
Saloon Set Extra (uncredited) Saloon Set Extra (uncredited)   See fewer
Jimmy Zahner
Boy in Movie Theater (uncredited) Boy in Movie Theater (uncredited)   See fewer
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