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Wikipedia article




'Men of Texas' is a 1942 American Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Robert Stack and Broderick Crawford.

Plot summary



Chicago newspaper employees Sam Sawyer (Leo Carrillo) and Barry Conovan (Robert Stack) have been assigned to track down Sam Houston in Huntsville, Texas, unaware he died years before. Renegade guerrilla leader Henry Clay Jackson (Broderick Crawford) 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.

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.Mary Martin May Join Gaxton and Oakie in 'The Gang's All Here' New York Times 1 May 1942: 23.

Reception



The 'New York Times' said it "provides ample entertainment."'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.


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