Men of Texas
1942 film by Ray Enright
- Harold Shumate
- Richard Brooks
- Robert Stack
- Broderick Crawford
Production
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Universal Pictures
Release date
- July 3, 1942 (1942-07-03)
Running time
Men of Texas is a 1942 American Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Robert Stack and Broderick Crawford.
Plot
Chicago newspaper employees Sam Sawyer and Barry Conovan have been assigned to track down Sam Houston in Huntsville, Texas, unaware he died years before. Renegade guerrilla leader Henry Clay Jackson does not want Texas re-admitted as one of the United States, but is intent on restoring it as a republic. As he and his gang raid and loot Texas, Jackson believes himself to be following in the footsteps of Houston. When Jackson is about to be hanged for his crimes, Houston's ghost rises from his grave to tell Jackson he was wrong.[1]
Cast
- Robert Stack – Barry Conovan
- Broderick Crawford – Henry Clay Jackson
- Jackie Cooper – Robert Houston Scott
- Anne Gwynne – Jane Baxter Scott
- Ralph Bellamy – Major Lamphere
- Jane Darwell – Mrs. Scott (Aunt Hattie)
- Leo Carrillo – Sam Sawyer
- John Litel – Colonel Scott
- William Farnum – The ghost of Sam Houston
- Janet Beecher – Mrs. Sam Houston
- J. Frank Hamilton – Dwight Douglass
- Kay Linaker – Mrs. Olsen
Production
The film was originally called Deep in the Heart of Texas and filming started May 1942.[2]
Reception
The New York Times said it "provides ample entertainment."[3]
References
- ^ "Men of Texas". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. AFI. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
- ^ Mary Martin May Join Gaxton and Oakie in 'The Gang's All Here' New York Times 1 May 1942: 23.
- ^ 'Men of Texas,' a Patriotic Western, at the Rialto -- 'Sweatier Girl' Arrives at the Central By BOSLEY CROWTHER. New York Times (13 July 1942: 18.
External links
- Men of Texas at AllMovie
- Men of Texas at the American Film Institute Catalog
- Men of Texas at IMDb
- Men of Texas at the TCM Movie Database
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Films directed by Ray Enright
- Tracked by the Police (1927)
- Jaws of Steel (1927)
- The Girl from Chicago (1927)
- Land of the Silver Fox (1928)
- The Little Wildcat (1928)
- Domestic Troubles (1928)
- Stolen Kisses (1929)
- Skin Deep (1929)
- Song of the West (1930)
- Golden Dawn (1930)
- Dancing Sweeties (1930)
- Scarlet Pages (1930)
- Play Girl (1932)
- The Tenderfoot (1932)
- Blondie Johnson (1933)
- Tomorrow at Seven (1933)
- The Silk Express (1933)
- Havana Widows (1933)
- I've Got Your Number (1934)
- Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)
- The Circus Clown (1934)
- Dames (1934)
- The St. Louis Kid (1934)
- While the Patient Slept (1935)
- Traveling Saleslady (1935)
- Alibi Ike (1935)
- We're in the Money (1935)
- Miss Pacific Fleet (1935)
- Snowed Under (1935)
- Earthworm Tractors (1936)
- China Clipper (1936)
- Sing Me a Love Song (1937)
- Ready, Willing, and Able (1937)
- Slim (1937)
- The Singing Marine (1937)
- Back in Circulation (1937)
- Swing Your Lady (1938)
- Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)
- Hard to Get (1938)
- Going Places (1938)
- The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
- On Your Toes (1939)
- Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
- Teddy, the Rough Rider (1940)
- An Angel from Texas (1940)
- River's End (1940)
- The Wagons Roll at Night (1941)
- Thieves Fall Out (1941)
- Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
- Law of the Tropics (1941)
- Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
- The Spoilers (1942)
- Men of Texas (1942)
- Sin Town (1942)
- Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943)
- The Iron Major (1943)
- Gung Ho! (1943)
- China Sky (1945)
- Man Alive (1945)
- One Way to Love (1946)
- Trail Street (1947)
- Albuquerque (1948)
- Coroner Creek (1948)
- Return of the Bad Men (1948)
- South of St. Louis (1949)
- Montana (1950)
- Kansas Raiders (1950)
- Flaming Feather (1952)
- The Man from Cairo (1953)
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