Texas Lawmen (1951)
5/10
Watch the British version if you can get hold of it!
26 March 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Director: LEWIS COLLINS. Screenplay: Joseph Poland. Story: Myron Healey. Photography: Ernest Miller. Film editor: Sammy Fields. Music: Raoul Kraushaar. Art director: David Milton. Set decorator: Vincent Taylor. Dialogue director: Stanley Price. Set continuity: Pearl Lester. Sound recording: Charles Cooper. Producer: Vincent M. Fennelly. A Frontier Pictures Production.

Copyright 2 December 1951 by Monogram Pictures Corporation. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 2 December 1951. U.K. release through Associated British-Pathé. 53 minutes. Cut to 48 minutes for U.K. release.

Alternative title: LONE STAR LAWMAN.

COMMENT: Here's a "B"-grade western that will especially please our younger fans. No females in the cast at all. Not one. On the other hand, excellent action footage includes a marvellous stunt in which the sheriff is shot from his horse right in front of the camera. Attractive actual location photography too. A pity Brown is getting a bit paunchy, but he still handles himself well in a fist fight. Also a shame that a few dull passages intrude - these were cleverly eliminated from the U.K. version - but director Collins keeps things moving.
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