Men Of Texas.

A Universal production. "Robert Stack, Broderick Crawford and Jackie Cooper are featured in this story of the Lone Star State during the period just after the Civil War. Sam Houston, States rights and lawlessness are the ingredients." Movie makers. "Available from January 3, 1944 for approved non-theatrical audiences." Producer

Chicago newspaper employees Sam Sawyer (Leo Carrillo) and Barry Conovan (Robert Stack) have been assigned to track down Sam Houston in Huntsville, Texas, unaware he died years before. Renegade guerrilla leader Henry Clay Jackson (Broderick Crawford) does not want Texas re-admitted as one of the United States, but is intent on restoring it as a republic. Houston's ghost rises from his grave to tell Jackson he was wrong.

Credits

Cast
Robert Stack, Jackie Cooper, Broderick Crawford
Complete catalog record
MEN OF TEXAS. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1942. 9 reels, sd. Credits: Associate producer, George Waggner; director, Ray Enright; original screenplay, Harold Shumate; film editor, Clarence Kolster. © Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 9Jul42; LP11452.

Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, length, genre, credits, catalog record
  2. Educational Film Guide 1946 — title, creator, length, format, sound, description, catalog record
  3. United World Films, Inc. 16mm Sound Motion Pictures Catalog, 1954-1955 — title, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits
  4. Wikidata · Q20814641 ↗ — country