Rancho Deluxe
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| Directed by | Frank Perry |
| Produced by | Elliott Kastner |
| Written by | Thomas McGuane |
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Jeff Bridges Sam Waterston Elizabeth Ashley Clifton James Slim Pickens |
| Music by | Jimmy Buffett |
| Cinematography | William A. Fraker |
| Edited by | Sidney Katz |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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93 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Rancho Deluxe is a contemporary western film that was directed by Frank Perry and released in 1975.Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston star as two cattle rustlers in modern-day Livingston, Montana who plague a wealthy ranch owner, played by Clifton James.
The film also stars Harry Dean Stanton, Richard Bright, Elizabeth Ashley and Slim Pickens as the aging detective Harry Beige hired to find the rustlers.
Jimmy Buffett contributed the music, and performed "Livingston Saturday Night" with alternate lyrics within the film in a scene set at a country and western bar.
The script was by novelist Thomas McGuane.
Jack McKee and Cecil Colson are a couple of young, restless rustlers. Jack has turned his back on his wealthy family and his wife. Cecil is a Native American. Together, more out of boredom than anything else, they have begun rustling cattle, cutting them up with a chainsaw and paying bills with fresh meat in lieu of cash.
Equally bored are wealthy Montana rancher John Brown and his wife, Cora. They once ran a beauty parlor in Schenectady, New York, but now they have bought up most of the land in this corner of Montana. Cora is so bored that she tries to catch the eye of her husband's dim ranch hands, Burt and Curt, but she can't seem to work up much interest on their part.
The rustling of his livestock lights a fire under Brown, who sends Burt and Curt up in a helicopter to try to catch the thieves in the act. Jack and Cecil continue to single out Brown's cattle, even kidnapping his $50,000 prize bull, "Basehart of Bozeman Canyon," for ransom.
Brown decides to call upon Henry Beige, said to be the scourge of rustlers everywhere. A legendary stock detective who once served time on a prison farm for rustling, Beige turns out to be a feeble old fool who doesn't seem to be interested in anything except watching TV and being waited on hand and foot by his beautiful niece, Laura, who is almost sickeningly sweet.
Jack and Cecil are feeling cocky, so much so that when Burt and Curt figure out that they must be the rustlers, Jack and Cecil bribe them into a scheme to steal a semi-truck full of John Brown's cattle.
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