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 (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, 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
Movie Reviews of Texas
Movie Review: The Buddy Western that wasn't.
Summary: 3 Stars
This is an entertaining Wester from the early forties with a game cast and a light feeling that is underscored by inappropiate Drama and Hollywood constraints.
What I mean to say is that the cameredrie between the two stars, Holden and Ford, is so strong that when the script pits them against one another, the tone turns
unbielevably around.
The beginning depicts a funny boxing match with Holden and another bare knuckle boxer and it seems that were watching a funny, Comedy Western. Ford and Holden flee town and hold up a group of robbers that had just robbed a stagecoach. The two split ways and soon are pitted agaionst one another. This is when the film takes a change for the worse and the plot takes over.
The film has a tough time determining whether or not it's a Comedy or a Drama and has a tough time balancing the two.
The romance between the two guys and Claire Trevor is fun, but falls prey to politics of the time. You see, Trevor can't end up with Holden because he joined a team of rustlers and is deemed "bad". So than arrives a spoiler that was inevitable: Holden is killed, so Ford can make off with Trevor. Unfortunately this does not come off well, since we empathized more with HOLDEN than we did with FORD and the "happy" ending with him riding away with Trevor just seems too artificial to really work.
This is a shame because this film could have been a perfect Buddy Western. Even the villains play it lighter. Both George Bancroft and Edgar Buchanan are good in there respectable roles, but again there lighter portrayals keep the film unbalanced. Buchanan in particular is far too likeable and warm to be a believable enough bad guy.
Director George Marshall directs the film with a sure hand and the film looks alot more higher budgeted than expected. The cattle stampede finale is in particular, impressive.
Nothing great but a solid, passable Western worth seeing for the stars and a few good moments throughout, but not the classic it could have been.
Summary of Texas
Two young drifters travel to the state of texas in search of adventure and hopefully fortune as well. Instead they find themselves being used as pawns in a cattle conspiracy and even worse rivals in a love triangle. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 04/05/2005 Starring: Claire Trevor William Holden Run time: 94 minutes Rating: NrAction & Adventure DVD Video
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