Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contemporary Montana.Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contemporary Montana.Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contemporary Montana.
- Mr. Colson
- (as Joseph Spinell)
- Anna
- (as Doria Cooke)
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- TriviaAt the Wrangler, Jimmy Buffett's backup band features not only local Livingston resident (at the time) Warren Oates, but also neighbor, film screenwriter and future brother-in-law Thomas McGuane (with the long hair playing mandolin).
- GoofsJack and Cecil use a chain saw to cut up the cattle they steal. That is a very messy way to cut a steer into quarters, throwing blood and bits of flesh out in a spray, but both rustlers get into the truck without a spot on them.
- Quotes
Mr. Colson: I've seen more of this state's poor cowboys, miners, railroaders and Indians go broke buyin' pickup trucks. The poor people of this state are dope fiends for pickup trucks. As soon's they get ten cents ahead they trade in on a new pickup truck. The families, homesteads, schools, hospitals and happiness of Montana have been sold down the river to buy pickup trucks!... And there's a sickness here worse than alcohol and dope. It is the pickup truck debt! And there's no cure in sight.
- Alternate versionsTelevision version features two additional minutes of alternate footage and runs 95 minutes.
- ConnectionsFeatures Pong (1972)
- SoundtracksRancho Deluxe
Written and Performed by Jimmy Buffett
We also sympathize with the rustlers because the ranchers are wealthy, socially prominent and dominant everything the rustler's aren't. They have everything they could want, so they're bored. And when the rustling problem appears, they treat it as sport like hunting a predatory animal. But their boredom takes other amusing forms as well. In one scene, the lady of the house tries to light a fire with the ranch hands. She's one of many cowgirls in the movie, women who like to be in the saddle, and to be the saddle. `Come on, goddamit,' she yells at the cowboys, Burt and Kurt. `I want some Gothic ranch action around here! I want some desire under the elms! I want to see some smoldering blazes down at the old corral!' It's hilarious. These guys are worthless. So it's a sad irony that her husband, who boasts that the B-Bar-Lazy-T has `the best matrons and the best sires,' must confine his boast to the non-human mammals on the ranch. When he takes his prize stud-bull to the county fair, the announcer describes it as having `tremendous thickness and length This bull has it all: size, bone, trim and color. It just brings tears to my eyes.' One can almost see the tears of unsatisfied desire in his wife's eyes as well that all the virile sires are bovine.
Slim Pickens, a former horse-thief turned cattle detective, is brilliant, funnier than ever. And then there are the scenes that provide a little social satire. Speaking of the Western love of pickup trucks, for example, one character denounces them as `a sickness here worse than alcohol or dope. It's the pickup truck death. And there's no cure for it.' I wonder sometimes if I don't recognize the disease right here in Flagstaff.
All in all, Rancho Deluxe is a very entertaining hour and a half.