The Kid from Texas is a 1950 American Technicolor Western film directed by
Kurt Neumann starring Audie Murphy and Gale Storm
Production
The film fictionalises the true events of the Lincoln County War but follows the basic facts.
Jameson (Shepperd Strudwick) is based on John Tunstall and Alexander Kain (Albert Dekker) on Alexander McSween.
Murphy was cast after his performance as a juvenile delinquent in Bad Boy,
with Billy the Kid being depicted as a 19th-century juvenile delinquent.
J. Edgar Hoover offered to narrate the film.
User Review
Good shootouts, a lot of action and a great Billy
Author: alexandre michel liberman (tmwest) from S. Paulo, Brazil
31 March 2005
Quote from alexAudie Murphy was the best Billy the Kid. It is not easy for a young man with a baby face to play a famous outlaw and be convincing. The fact that Murphy was a hero in the second world war must have given him that confidence. The story starts as Billy begins working for an Englishman (Tunstall, with his name changed to Jameson), but his partner Kain does not like Billy who also becomes fascinated with Kain's wife (Gale Storm). Governor Lew Wallace who is present in this film more than in any other about Billy, tries desperately to stop the Lincoln County War. Billy ends up on the wrong side of the law and his gang here is reduced to two guys, one is a Mexican and the other does not stop singing "Streets of Laredo". Murphy is very fast when he draws, he must have done a lot of training. Even though not an ambitious production as the 1941 film with Robert Taylor, overall this is much better. There are good shootouts, a lot of action and a great Billy.