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a very good 1950 western movie with a good cast of actors and many beautiful breeds of horses and horse riding skills to.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
01/20/23
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Why have you brought this crazy one with you?
A Confederate officer hunts down a man who destroyed his family and life shortly after the Civil War. The officer finds the man in Dallas, but he has transformed himself from outlaw to a respectable citizen that is highly regarded. The officer will find it hard to find anyone who will help him gain revenge without putting his own life at risk.
"We need to get out of town without advertising it."
Stuart Heisler, director of The Lone Ranger, The Burning Hills, This is My Love, Island of Desire, Tulsa, Tokyo Joe, Chain Lightening, The Biscuit Eater, and Hitler, delivers Dallas. The storyline for this picture is pretty good with some good lines and character interactions. The acting is solid and the cast includes Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey, and Leif Erickson.
"We don't want no Cain and Abel on our souls."
I came across this on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and DVR'd it. Gary Cooper was very compelling and delivers his character well. The plot is straightforward for the genre, but the dialogue and acting is first rate. I only recommend seeing this if you're a fan of the genre.
"You'd get your pocket picked in a graveyard."
Grade: C+
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/19/23
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Corny, old fashioned western about post-civil war reb Gary Cooper seeking revenge on carpetbaggers who killed his family. Nothing original to make it stand out from the hundreds of other Hollywood westerns, but Cooper is solid, there's a typically good Max Steiner score and a decent supporting cast that includes Raymond Massey, Leif Erickson and Antonio Moreno.
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01/31/23
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dave j
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
(1950) Dallas
WESTERN
Westerns are definitely not like what they're used to anymore, and this is a prime example of it. Watching this movie is like reading a great Western novel, for there's so many things happening that it may require a second viewing. Stars Gary Cooper as an ex-confederate major Blayde Hollister, who's just escaped from a pointless hanging, with the help of an old friend who's just retiring, by the name of Wild Bill Hickok. Along with this little so-called act, is a less than experienced sheriff, recruited from Boston by the name of Martin Weatherby( Leif Erickson). Because Martin is new to the area of Dallas, and is also not a very good gun shooter, Blayde Hollister decides to pose as him, while Martin would go as his brother. Blayde's only objective for doing this is to settle an old score. There's also a subplot involving carpetbaggers, and underhanded scrupulous real estate developers involving the Marlow brothers.
What I love about this movie is that there's always one exciting thing happening after another, that there were times I was unable to keep up with it. And the action sequences are well photographed and performed which we are not accustomed in seeing in Western films these days when all they do is talk, using a measly budget. And Gary Cooper performance is just as strong and commanding as he ever was.
3 out of 4 stars
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03/30/23
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131208: About three bad costumes but otherwise a decent western. Raymond Massey, as Will Marlow, is the highlight for me...neat holster and guns but bad costume.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
01/31/23
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Long before J.R. Ewing and some football cheerleaders made this Texas city popular, there was this colorful Warner Brothers western starring one of the greatest action heroes of Hollywood's golden age. Cooper plays a man wanted for arson who disguises himself as a marshal to unleash the real culprit. He convinces the actual marshal (Steve Cochran) to let him take over his identity and in the process, wins the love of Cochran's Mexican sweetheart (Ruth Roman). In going after the bad guys, he comes up against Dallas's most powerful citizen (Raymond Massey in a masterful performance) and taunts the bad guys in an explosive climax.
If the idea of Ruth Roman playing a Mexican doesn't make you laugh (it seems that any dark haired beauty could be cast in Hispanic parts in this era) how about platinum blonde cult actress Barbara Payton as the wife of one of the bad guys and a group of actors who are supposed to play Texans but sound nothing like them? Two years before his Oscar Winning role in "High Noon", Cooper played a variation of the same role, and in studying the two films, you really can see the difference as to what makes a film tense ("High Noon's" clock is as much of a character as the human beings in the film, while "Dallas" has little or no tension at all) and what makes it simply routine. If it wasn't for the color photography or the presence of its cast (Cooper, Massey and Reed Hadley as Wild Bill Hickock), this could have drifted into the hundreds of "B" westerns of the time, entertaining in their own right but basically forgettable. 5 Stars 2-18-13
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
01/23/23
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