A pleasant little romp....
This was a cute movie. There are parts of it that were sort of a time capsule of the early-mid 70's. It was interesting seeing a young Jimmy Buffett playing in a small Montana bar. I also enjoyed seeing the actor Clifton James from the Jame's Bond movies playing a part other than the redneck Louisiana sheriff J.W. Pepper - took me a while to recognize him - plus, its always nice to see Slim Pickins...

It was a bit more risque than I was expecting - I wouldn't recommend it for kids, but fun for adults...

Pre-Coen, Coen-Style
This funky, goofy western is a little piece of 70s film noir that is a must for fans of Jimmy Buffett. One might ask, what was Jimmy doing in this movie??? Well, not much besides playing one of his early signature songs. The plot revolves around an attempt to preserve the west for westerners and everyone else be damned. It is clearly not the best work of any or all the actors/actresses involved, but Rancho Deluxe is still worth a view...not a buy.

Must See If you are Jimmy Buffett fan
I'm a Jimmy Buffett fun. I wanted to see him act in his first movie and hear the soundtrack. It has an early version of "Livingston Saturday Night".

Don't fence me in
Thomas McGuane scripted this anti-western western comedy about two modern-day cattle rustlers in Montana who do what they do out of sheer boredom. Jack McGhee (Jeff Bridges) is from a wealthy background, while his partner Cecil Colson (Sam Waterston) is a Native American. They rustle a steer from rancher John Brown (Clifton James) which sets off a chain of basically unconnected incidents, most of them meant to be funny. The movie tracks the two rustlers but never really gets involved with them: the picture often feels as distant from them as they are from the world around them. As with much of McGuane's fiction, the script is drenched in irony and a sad sort of humor that rarely evokes more than a head-shaking chuckle. Slim Pickens, though, is excellent as an old dottery detective called in to investigate the case.

[Three-and-a-half] Remember 'Pong', the very first video game - If you do then you'll love this 'Western'
Jimmy Buffett gets very eeeasrrlly career
boost from this verrrryy country-western
soundtrack and movie appearance w/ Jeff
Bridges, fresh off starring with Clint
Eastwood in a pretty funny (and raunchy)
Thunderbolt and Ligthfoot a year earlier,
gets to play one of two modern day cattle
rustlers! Fun but don't take it too ser-
iously - I didn't, I saw it originally
for Buffett!