Rancho Deluxe

Rancho Deluxe
Theatrical release poster
Directed byFrank Perry
Written byThomas McGuane
Produced byElliott Kastner
StarringJeff Bridges
Sam Waterston
Elizabeth Ashley
Clifton James
Slim Pickens
CinematographyWilliam A. Fraker
Edited bySidney Katz
Music byJimmy Buffett
Production
company
Elliott Kastner Productions
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • March 14, 1975 (1975-03-14)
Running time
93 min
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Rancho Deluxe is a 1975 neo-Western comedy film directed by Frank Perry.[1] 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, Maggie Wellman, Patti D’Arbanville, and Slim Pickens as the aging detective Henry 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.[1]

  1. ^ a b Eder, Richard (November 24, 1975). "Rancho Deluxe (1975) The Screen: 'Rancho':Spoof Western Opens at the D.W. Griffith". The New York Times.