TEXAS
DIRECTED BY GEORGE MARSHALL
COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION
INFORMATION FROM IMDb
Plot Summary
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
Written by Alfred Jingle
Cast
William Holden ... Dan Thomas
Glenn Ford ... Tod Ramsey
Claire Trevor ... 'Mike' King
George Bancroft ... Windy Miller
Edgar Buchanan ... Buford 'Doc' Thorpe
Don Beddoe ... Sheriff
Andrew Tombes ... Tennessee
Addison Richards ... Matt Lashan
Edmund MacDonald ... Comstock
Joseph Crehan ... Rancher Dusty King
Willard Robertson ... Rancher Wilson
Pat Moriarity ... Rancher Matthews (as Patrick Moriarty)
Edmund Cobb ... Rancher Blaire
Harry Tenbrook ... Handler / Cornerman at Fight (uncredited)
Carleton Young ... Lashan Cowhand (uncredited)
and many more...
Directed
George Marshall
Writing Credits
Horace McCoy ... (screenplay)
Lewis Meltzer ... (screenplay) (story)
Michael Blankfort ... (screenplay)(story
Produced
Samuel Bischoff
Music
Sidney Cutner ... (uncredited)
Ross DiMaggio ... (uncredited)
Carmen Dragon ... (uncredited)
Cinematography
George Meehan
Trivia
As was often the case during his career, Holden shaved his chest before appearing, shirtless, in this movie's prizefighting sequence.
Edgar Buchanan (Buford 'Doc' Thorpe)really is a dentist.
The Texas town scenes appear to have been filmed at Melody Ranch in Southern California. Columbia, being a poor studio at the time, would have filmed close to Hollywood, so it makes sense.
Goofs
Continuity
When William Holden ambushes the stagecoach robbers he removes the leaders gun from his holster two seconds later he is seen removing it again.
Factual errors
The story set in 1866, post-Civil War Texas has everyone armed with Colt Model 1873 pistols with bullet loops full of cartridges on their gun-belts, even the movie poster has William Holden's character Dan holding a short barrel 'gunfighter's' version of the .45 caliber pistol. This is seven years before the pistol was introduced by Colt. The most common sidearm of the day would have been the Colt 1869 Army which was a cap and ball weapon that had to be hand loaded chamber by chamber with powder, wadding and a ball projectile.
Filming Locations
Balkins Ranch near Calabasas, California, USA