Texas
by George Marshall
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Actor: Claire Trevor, Edgar Buchanan, George Bancroft, Glenn Ford, William HoldenDirector: George Marshall
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: George Meehan
Editor: William A. Lyon
Producer: Samuel Bischoff
Writer: Horace McCoy
Writer: Lewis Meltzer
Writer: Michael Blankfort
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Texas
Movie Review: Fun early Glenn Ford/William Holden western
Summary: 4 Stars
Two young drifters, Ted Ramsey (Glenn Ford) and Dan Thomas (William Holden,) find fame and fortune, romance and adventure, in the cattle rich state of Texas.
At least Texas has cattle, gold on the hoof, if the ranchers can only find a way to get them to market. The rest of the post-war (1866) country is experiencing famine and starvation, and it's a fur piece to the stockyards and railways of Abilene. Fur and dangerous. The trail is lousy with cattle rustlers. Our heroes, Ford and Holden, are a couple of personable saddle tramps who start out together, are separated early, inadvertently thrown back together a short time later. Texas may be a big state, but it's a small world. Unfortunately for their friendship, but essential to the plot, before they reune one becomes involved with the good, decent, upright ranchers while the other has through in with a scurrilous, cattle-thieving, rough bunch of prairie thugs. Add a pretty young rancher's daughter (Clair Trevor as `Mike' King) and you've got yourself a movie.
TEXAS opens with a long, long, looong scene that - until you realize this is a western-COMEDY - is, frankly, pretty tough to endure. We're in Abilene with Dan and Tod (wonder how many people in 1941 even recognized Ford and Holden before they stepped forward out of the crowd scene?) There's a prize-fight, two bare-knuckle pros, winner-take-all. Stop me if you've heard this one - one of the fighters has a disabling injury upon entering the ring, and one of our cash-strapped buddies decides... okay, everyone from Abbot & Costello to Laurel & Hardy have played this tune. It's a staple of buddy films, and when handled right hilarity ensues. In here things kind of, well, miss the beat. George Marshall directed, and his credits include a number of comfortably amusing, rather that side-splittingly hilarious, action movies. The list includes `Destry Rides Again,' `The Ghost Breakers,' and `Papa's Delicate Condition.' The comedy in TEXAS is blunt, laconic, and for those who don't see the humor in a herd of cattle walking through a room in which a man is taking a bath in a metal tub, or a skinny Bill Holden duking it out for 35 rounds (!), not to everyone's taste.
Still, TEXAS is an easygoing showcase vehicle for a couple of promising young stars, the underrated Clair Trevor adds spice, and the always welcome Edgar Buchanan chews up a big chunk of time as the somewhat grimy and seedy town dentist. Could have done without the running gag of building scenes around his checking out a feller's bicuspid - nasty looking dental equipment back then. Despite its faults I enjoyed TEXAS quite a bit. Ford and Holden are very young and pretty raw, and it was interesting to see them in their first starring vehicle. The plot wasn't gripping, but it was familiar and comfortable. Fans of the stars, or of old B-westerns, should get a kick out of it.
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