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With a story by Shumate and screenplay by Richard Brooks, MEN OF Texas is an attempt at pro-American propaganda in the garb of a story about post-Civil War rebellion in Texas. The problem is that the story is too big to be tackled in a (barely) nine-reeler.
Men of Texas: Directed by Ray Enright. With Robert Stack, Broderick Crawford, Jackie Cooper, Anne Gwynne. Played by Robert Stack, Barry Conovan, a newspaperman, is sent to Texas some years after the death of Sam Houston, with the aim of getting the real skinny on the grand old man.
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- History, Western
- Ray Enright
- 1942-07-03
Reviews. A Chicago reporter (Robert Stack) and photographer focus on a Confederate outlaw (Brod Crawford) in post-Civil War Texas. Content collapsed.
- Western
- Robert Stack, Brod Crawford, Jackie Cooper
- Ray Enright
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Men of Texas is a 1942 American Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Robert Stack and Broderick Crawford. Plot [ edit ] Chicago newspaper employees Sam Sawyer and Barry Conovan have been assigned to track down Sam Houston in Huntsville, Texas, unaware he died years before.
Played by Robert Stack, Barry Conovan, a newspaperman, is sent to Texas some years after the death of Sam Houston, with the aim of getting the real skinny on the grand old man.
This exciting crime show about the real-life Prohibition-era crime-fighter Eliot Ness and his G-men taking on the Chicago underworld was successful in its day for several reasons: its catchy theme music, florid violence (which caused quite a sensation in its day), taut narration by Walter Winchell, and of course, Stack's trademark staccato ...
