San Antonio (1945)Tough dance hall girl working for the local villain falls for a cowboy trying to clean up the town. Director:David Butler |
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San Antonio (1945)Tough dance hall girl working for the local villain falls for a cowboy trying to clean up the town. Director:David Butler |
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Clay Hardin
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| Alexis Smith | ... |
Jeanne Starr
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| S.Z. Sakall | ... |
Sacha Bozic
(as S.Z. 'Cuddles' Sakall)
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Victor Francen | ... |
Legare
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Florence Bates | ... |
Henrietta
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| John Litel | ... |
Charlie Bell
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Paul Kelly | ... |
Roy Stuart
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Robert Shayne | ... |
Captain Morgan
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John Alvin | ... |
Pony Smith
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Monte Blue | ... |
Cleve Andrews
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Robert Barrat | ... |
Colonel Johnson
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Pedro de Cordoba | ... |
Ricardo Torreon
(as Pedro De Cordoba)
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Tom Tyler | ... |
Lafe McWilliams
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Clay Hardin is a San Antonio rancher who has been run off his land by cattle rustlers. There's a range war going on and Hardin is determined to get the man behind it all, Roy Stuart. Hardin has been hiding out in Mexico, biding his time and decides the time has come for him to return. He's managed to get hold of one of Stuart's tally books that clearly shows he was selling cattle that didn't belong to him. Stuart and his partner Legare will go to any lengths to stop Hardin before he can put the evidence before a court. Beautiful dance hall performer Jeanne Starr arrives in San Antonio under contract to Stuart and Legare but she is clearly smitten with the handsome Hardin. When the army is called away, Hardin and his supporters are left on their own to defend themselves. Written by garykmcd
When I first saw this film in a rerun at the early fifties I was impressed by the colors. Before this western only a few were made in color like "Dodge City", "Jesse James", and "Drums Along the Mohawk". There is a scene at the beginning where a young boy takes a telegram from one person to another passing through the town, and the scenery and colors of this scene never left my memory, it was breathtaking. When I saw this film recently on DVD, the colors looked great, but because of the higher definition, the painted scenery became very obvious. "San Antonio" is one of those high achievements of Warner, a western that has stagecoaches, shootouts, (one of them at the Alamo), a big saloon with music, Alexis Smith, and of course, Flynn. I lost the count of the times I have seen this movie and I keep on enjoying it.