Horizons West (1952)

Two brothers end up on opposite sides of the law in post-Civil War Texas.

Director:

Budd Boetticher

Writer:

Louis Stevens (story)

Stars:

Robert Ryan, Julie Adams, Rock Hudson

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Robert Ryan	...	Dan Hammond
Julie Adams	...	Lorna Hardin (as Julia Adams)
Rock Hudson	...	Neil Hammond
Judith Braun	...	Sally Eaton
John McIntire	...	Ira Hammond
Raymond Burr	...	Cord Hardin
James Arness	...	Tiny McGilligan
Dennis Weaver	...	Dandy Taylor
Frances Bavier	...	Martha Hammond
Tom Powers	...	Frank Tarleton
John Hubbard	...	Sam Hunter
Rodolfo Acosta	...	General José Escobar Lopez
Douglas Fowley	...	Ed Tompkins
Walter Reed	...	Layton
Raymond Greenleaf	...	Eli Dodson

Storyline

Home from the Civil War, young Neal Hammond is happy to return to Texas ranching, but brother Dan wants more. His attempt to enter business is thwarted when carpetbagger Cord Hardin beats and humiliates him in a poker game. So Dan forms a rustling gang and parlays his ill-gotten gains into a land empire. But among the growing opposition to his gang is the new Marshal of Austin...brother Neal.

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Plot Keywords:

ranch | cattle | money | austin texas | rancher | 

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Taglines:

LAWLESS RUTHLESS DEFIANCE! (original print ad - all caps)

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Genres:

Western

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

11 October 1952 (USA)

Also Known As:

Fluch der Verlorenen

Filming Locations:

Andy Jauregui Ranch - Placerita Canyon Road, Newhall, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universal International Pictures (UI)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

81 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Robert Ryan was only two years younger than John McIntire, who plays his father.

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Connections

Featured in Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005)

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Soundtracks

"ALEXIS, DARLIN' OF TEXAS"
Written by Inez James and Sidney Miller
Sung by Judith Braun

User Reviews

Horizons East (of Eden)

How many westerns (and others) feature two brothers ,the good and the bad,Abel and Cain?It was already in Genesis after all.It's more Ryan too old to be Hudson's brother than the other way about;sixteen years between the two leads is much and it shows.But Robert Ryan was as excellent as ever in his part of an ex-confederate soldier who does not want to work on a ranch and dreams of building an empire ,abetted by a femme fatale -a rare character in westerns.But as Springsteen sings,a king ain't satisfied till he owns everything and as Shakespeare wrote,(man)gains the world and loses his soul.On the contrary ,brother Hudson is a loyal good son,probably remembering the prodigal son parable ;Hudson would play a similar part in Sirk's modern western (the sport car replacing the horse)"written on the wind" (1956):some kind of adoptive child opposite a wealthy bad son (Robert Stack);he was also the good guy in "Giant" in which Dean became a racist tycoon.

"Horizons west" is an entertaining western,its last pictures summing up its moral in admirably succinct style.