Men of Texas

Men of Texas is a 1942 American Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Robert Stack and Broderick Crawford.

Men of Texas
Directed by	Ray Enright
Written by	Harold Shumate Richard Brooks
Produced by	George Waggner
Starring	Robert Stack Broderick Crawford
Cinematography	Milton Krasner
Edited by	Clarence Kolster
Music by	Edward Ward
Production company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	July 3, 1942 (1942-07-03)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

Chicago newspaper employees Sam Sawyer and Barry Conovan have been assigned to track down Sam Houston in Huntsville, Texas, unaware he died years before. Renegade guerrilla leader Henry Clay Jackson does not want Texas re-admitted as one of the United States, but is intent on restoring it as a republic. As he and his gang raid and loot Texas, Jackson believes himself to be following in the footsteps of Houston. When Jackson is about to be hanged for his crimes, Houston's ghost rises from his grave to tell Jackson he was wrong.^[1]

Cast

• Robert Stack – Barry Conovan
• Broderick Crawford – Henry Clay Jackson
• Jackie Cooper – Robert Houston Scott
• Anne Gwynne – Jane Baxter Scott
• Ralph Bellamy – Major Lamphere
• Jane Darwell – Mrs. Scott (Aunt Hattie)
• Leo Carrillo – Sam Sawyer
• John Litel – Colonel Scott
• William Farnum – The ghost of Sam Houston
• Janet Beecher – Mrs. Sam Houston
• J. Frank Hamilton – Dwight Douglass
• Kay Linaker – Mrs. Olsen

Production

The film was originally called Deep in the Heart of Texas and filming started May 1942.^[2]

Reception

The New York Times said it "provides ample entertainment."^[3]