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Now that I live in Texas and grew up watching the old"Dallas"tv series and now that they are starting the series all over again,how could I resist this 1950 Gary Cooper film that runs only 94 minutes.One of the standard story lines in classic western lore is the tenderfoot who is saved by the bad guy who isn't really bad after all or now repaying his bad life with a final good deed to help that poor fool.
In this case,the Civil War is over and a roque Confederate colonel, is being hunted for crimes committed during that war. We have a love triangle develop and we learn the colonel is out to revenge the murder of his family by roque union troops during that war.
Add to that mexican cattle owner and growing cow town Dallas and the hint of the oil and rail to come,we have all the "Texas" themes we need for a good time.Nothing new but mixed very well.Thats why I took 1 and 1/2 stars off.We've seen it before and since but it still better than most again evidenced by a trailer link available to view after the pix and a detailed IMDB summary below.A see for western and Cooper fans.
After Confederate officer Blayde Hollister's home and family are destroyed by the Marlowe brothers during the Civil War, he swears revenge, refusing to surrender and becoming a wanted man. In order to pursue the three brothers into Texas, Hollister fakes his own death in a staged gunfight with his friend Wild Bill Hickock. He then befriends Martin Weatherby, the newly appointed U.S. Marshal to Dallas, an affable, but not very experienced lawman, who agrees to let Hollister assume his identity. The eldest of the Marlow brothers, Will, masquerades as a law-abiding real estate dealer while feigning righteous indignation over the brutal acts of lawlessness and violence visited on the honest citizens of Dallas by his sociopathic brothers, Cullen and Bryant. (Their parents were evidently fond of the renowned poet William Cullen Bryant). When Hollister becomes a rival for the affections of Weatherby's aristocratic fiancee Tonia Robles... Written by Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/445425/Dallas-Original-Trailer-.html
In this case,the Civil War is over and a roque Confederate colonel, is being hunted for crimes committed during that war. We have a love triangle develop and we learn the colonel is out to revenge the murder of his family by roque union troops during that war.
Add to that mexican cattle owner and growing cow town Dallas and the hint of the oil and rail to come,we have all the "Texas" themes we need for a good time.Nothing new but mixed very well.Thats why I took 1 and 1/2 stars off.We've seen it before and since but it still better than most again evidenced by a trailer link available to view after the pix and a detailed IMDB summary below.A see for western and Cooper fans.
After Confederate officer Blayde Hollister's home and family are destroyed by the Marlowe brothers during the Civil War, he swears revenge, refusing to surrender and becoming a wanted man. In order to pursue the three brothers into Texas, Hollister fakes his own death in a staged gunfight with his friend Wild Bill Hickock. He then befriends Martin Weatherby, the newly appointed U.S. Marshal to Dallas, an affable, but not very experienced lawman, who agrees to let Hollister assume his identity. The eldest of the Marlow brothers, Will, masquerades as a law-abiding real estate dealer while feigning righteous indignation over the brutal acts of lawlessness and violence visited on the honest citizens of Dallas by his sociopathic brothers, Cullen and Bryant. (Their parents were evidently fond of the renowned poet William Cullen Bryant). When Hollister becomes a rival for the affections of Weatherby's aristocratic fiancee Tonia Robles... Written by Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)
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