A former Confederate officer hunting for an outlaw who wronged him finds him in Dallas, but now as a wealthy, respectable citizen.
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Gary Cooper | ... | Blayde 'Reb' Hollister | |
| Ruth Roman | ... | Tonia Robles | |
| Steve Cochran | ... | Bryant Marlow | |
| Raymond Massey | ... | Will Marlow | |
| Barbara Payton | ... | Flo | |
| Leif Erickson | ... | U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby | |
| Antonio Moreno | ... | Don Felipe Robles | |
| Jerome Cowan | ... | Matt Coulter | |
| Reed Hadley | ... | Wild Bill Hickok | |
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Gil Donaldson | ... | Luis Robles |
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After Confederate officer Blayde Hollister's home and family are destroyed by the Marlowe Brothers during the Civil War, he swears revenge, refusing to surrender and becoming a wanted man. In order to pursue the three brothers into Texas, Hollister fakes his own death in a staged gunfight with his friend Wild Bill Hickock. He then befriends Martin Weatherby, the newly appointed U.S. Marshal to Dallas, an affable, but not very experienced lawman, who agrees to let Hollister assume his identity. The eldest of the Marlowe brothers, Will, masquerades as a law-abiding real estate dealer while feigning righteous indignation over the brutal acts of lawlessness and violence visited on the honest citizens of Dallas by his sociopathic brothers, Cullen and Bryant. (Their parents were evidently fond of the renowned poet William Cullen Bryant). When Hollister becomes a rival for the affections of Weatherby's aristocratic fiancee Tonia Robles, Martin wonders whether he should let Blayde know that ... Written by duke1029
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
30 December 1950 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Dallas, ville frontière See more »Filming Locations:
Iverson Ranch - 1 Iverson Lane, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Blayde Hollister: If your carpetbag riffraff doesn't choke it to death in her cradle.
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Raymond Massey, a Canadian, was most famous for his repeated movie portrayals of President Lincoln. See more »Goofs
There is a clear difference between Wild Bill Hickock's shoulder length hair and actor Reed Hadley's real hair. See more »Quotes
Judge Harper: Dallas will be run by Federal law, not mob rule. We're not wild westerners. We're facing east and that's our future. We intend to build industries here, and culture. Dallas will raise people, not cows.Blayde Hollister: If your carpetbag riffraff doesn't choke it to death in her cradle.
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The only reason I watched this film was because of Gary Cooper. While maybe not the nicest person in the world in real life, he was a wonderful actor and I'd watch even one of his weaker films just to see him act. And, as usual, he was very good (though a bit old to win the girl at the end of the film).
The problem, then, is that despite all of Cooper's talent, the film is just a very ordinary and run-of-the-mill cowboy film. I could EASILY have imagined almost any other actor being able to do Cooper's role and the film would STILL have been mediocre. It's because so many elements of the plot just seem too familiar and too clichéd.
About the only thing that stood out was the interesting character played by Leif Erickson---who oddly received such low billing in the film even though he was one of the main characters! The idea of an Eastern "dude" coming West to impress his girl was kind of funny and he did provide a few cute moments and an interesting sidekick, of sorts, for Cooper.
Aside from that, the film is imminently skipable. It's a film that only Cooper addicts or B-quality Western addicts should watch--there are frankly too many better films out there worth your time.