San Antonio (1945)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

David Butler

Writers:

W.R. Burnett (writer)
Alan Le May (writer)

Release Date:

29 December 1945 (USA)

Genre:

Romance | Western

Tagline:

Strong Men . . . Brave Men . . . Real Americans - and their Women!

Plot:

Tough dance hall girl working for the local villain falls for a cowboy trying to clean up the town. |

Plot Keywords:

Dance Hall | Texas | Stagecoach | San Antonio Texas | Rancher

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Oscars.

Cast

Errol Flynn	...	Clay Hardin
Alexis Smith	...	Jeanne Starr
S.Z. Sakall	...	Sacha Bozic (as S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall)
Victor Francen	...	Legare
Florence Bates	...	Henrietta
John Litel	...	Charlie Bell
Paul Kelly	...	Roy Stuart
Robert Shayne	...	Capt. Morgan
John Alvin	...	Pony Smith
Monte Blue	...	Cleve Andrews
Robert Barrat	...	Col. Johnson
Pedro de Cordoba	...	Ricardo Torreon
Tom Tyler	...	Lafe McWilliams

Runtime:

109 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | German

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Australia:G | Finland:S | Sweden:15 | West Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Calabasas, California, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Quotes:

Clay Hardin: [about the dance] Took me years to pick up.
Jeanne Starr: It must have been the only thing that took you that long.
Clay Hardin: Well, we don't get pretty girls like you down here often. Guess that's why we have to pay for it.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Hollywood Wonderland (1947)

Soundtrack:

Put Your Little Foot Right Out

one of the high achievements of Warner, a still enjoyable western.

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.