Cockfight (2002) The Round and Round (original title)

Director:

Rod Slane

Writer:

Kent Frates

Release Date:

1 June 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A state proposes a law banning cock fights. |

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | Cockfighting

Cast

Robert Knott	...	Senator Turner
Alex Meneses	...	Becky Lord
Hunter von Leer	...	M.B.
Wilford Brimley	...	Governor
Gailard Sartain	...	Jim Stoops
Rex Linn	...	Sheriff
Robert Peters	...	Senator Culvert
Jeff Corbett	...	Senator Brad Eldridge
Stacie Drew	...	Marcie
Robin Frates
Brian Shoop	...	Senator Perkins
Eric Starkey	...	Deputy
Hawk Slane	...	Al Jr.
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bill Brazelton	...	Al
Sidney Buford	...	State Legislator
Courtney Mahurin	...	Courtney
Greg Shuffield	...	Legislator
Delores Wheeler	...	Audience
Peter Young	...	Governor's Aide
Joe Damiani	...	Extra (uncredited)

Directed by
Rod Slane

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Kent Frates

Produced by
Mac Maguire	....	executive producer
Jill Noonan	....	producer

Original Music by
Rod Slane

Cinematography by
Robert Driskell

Film Editing by
Todd Roberts
Rod Slane

Production Management
Jason Stafford	....	production manager

Sound Department
Kini Kay	....	sound designer
Jeff Meese	....	sound mixer

Special Effects by
Sammy Weygand	....	weapon advisor
Sammy Weygand	....	weapon handler

Stunts
Chuck Coleman	....	aerobatic flying

Camera and Electrical Department
Pat Flanagan	....	electrician
Dustin Penrod	....	electrician
Thomas Wilcox	....	grip

Other crew
Andrew E. Erickson	....	production assistant
Deana Spyres	....	script supervisor
Sammy Weygand	....	supplier: weapons, police equipment and vehicles

Production Companies

• Dreams Beyond Productions

Distributors

• Bruder Releasing (BRI)

Also Known As:

"The Round and Round" - USA (original title)

Runtime:

USA:131 min (DVD version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R

Company:

Dreams Beyond Productions

bronzed baby shoe

This is the worst movie ever made. Oklahoma actors Gailard Sartain, Rex Linn and Mr. Brimley, who have shown themselves capable of fine performances, just took the money and ran, in this deal. The writer/producer must've wanted to make a movie before he died, had a lot of money and figured that's all it would take. Wrong. The actors are not without fault, however. Sartain, for example, has made only one other movie in the last seven years ("Elizabethtown"). Maybe he can't get work anymore. Brimley's day is past as a character actor, and Rex Linn -- despite a few good performances being coaxed from him by excellent directors -- is essentially an ad agency spokesman. The story about cockfighting in Oklahoma is contrived, and no longer (six years later) of real local interest. Even though it's supposed to be a comedy, this movie is heavy handed, like a bronzed baby shoe hanging from the rear view mirror. Val Lewton could make fine movies with a budget a fraction of this one's, and Ed Wood's poor-boy movies could be interesting in a desperate sort of way. This one, "The Round and Round," has no redeeming qualities I can find, but it's the pretentiousness of the production that makes it the worst movie ever made.