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American Empire (1942) -- Two men join forces to build a cattle empire, and battle rustlers, bad weather and each other.

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6.2/10   71 votes
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Director:
William C. McGann
Writers:
J. Robert Bren (story) and
Gladys Atwater (story) ...
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Release Date:
11 December 1942 (USA) more
Genre:
Western more
Tagline:
The spectacular romance of America's Greatest Adventure more
Plot:
Two men join forces to build a cattle empire, and battle rustlers, bad weather and each other. | add synopsis
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Empire On the Sabine more

Cast

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Richard Dix ... Dan Taylor
Leo Carrillo ... Dominique Beauchard
Preston Foster ... Paxton Bryce
Frances Gifford ... Abigail 'Abby' Taylor, Dan's Sister
Robert Barrat ... Crowder, Small Rancher (as Robert H. Barrat)
Jack La Rue ... Pierre, Beauchard Henchman
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams ... Sailaway (as Guinn Williams)
Cliff Edwards ... Runty
Merrill Rodin ... Paxton Bryce Jr. (as Merrill Guy Rodin)
Chris-Pin Martin ... Augustin, Beauchard Henchman (as Chris Pin Martin)
Richard Webb ... Crane (small rancher)
William Farnum ... Louisiana Judge
Etta McDaniel ... Willa May, Bryce's Maid
Hal Taliaferro ... Malone
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
My Son Alone (UK)
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Runtime:
82 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Wide Range System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #8113) | Sweden:15
Filming Locations:
Kernville, California, USA

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Originally made by Paramount but sold to United Artists for release. more
Quotes:
Dan Taylor: The war's over Pax. We can't start another one, just because you're restless. more
Soundtrack:
Little Pal more

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3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Empire On the Sabine, 27 August 2005
4/10
Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

I'm sure that the folks on the Texas/Louisiana border must have had a a good laugh or two when Paramount's B picture unit inflicted this one on the war time public. Very simply the area along the Sabine River where the film opens is cotton country just like the rest of the Deep South or at least the Deep South was post Civl War. No big cattle empires there, they're much farther west in Texas, farther than Richard Dix and Preston Foster could ride to set up their empire.

The film begins with the two of them partners in a riverboat and when Leo Carrillo tries a theft of their services by not paying them for hauling his cattle, they keep the cattle. And that's the beginning of the big Ponderosa like ranch they start.

Along the way Foster marries Dix's sister played by Frances Gifford and feuds with his much smaller neighbors. They also have some further run ins with Leo Carrillo.

Anyway, us easterners who like westerns usually don't bother with geographical trifles and it's still a good western from the production mill of Harry Sherman who produced all those Hopalong Cassidy westerns for Paramount. The climax is a blazing, and I mean that literally, gun battle that should have maybe been used on an A production.

But I wouldn't have any but western fans look at it.

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