Men of Texas explained

Men of Texas
Director:	Ray Enright
Producer:	George Waggner
Starring:	Robert Stack Broderick Crawford
Cinematography:	Milton Krasner
Editing:	Clarence Kolster
Music:	Edward Ward
Studio:	Universal Pictures
Distributor:	Universal Pictures
Runtime:	82 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	English

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Men of Texas. AFI Catalog of Feature Films. AFI. August 2, 2015.
2. Mary Martin May Join Gaxton and Oakie in 'The Gang's All Here' New York Times 1 May 1942: 23.
3. 'Men of Texas,' a Patriotic Western, at the Rialto -- 'Sweatier Girl' Arrives at the CentralBy BOSLEY CROWTHER. New York Times (13 July 1942: 18.