''Comanche Territory '' is a 1950 American

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film directed by

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and starring

Maureen O'Hara Maureen O'Hara (; 17 August 1920 – 24 October 2015) was a native Irish and naturalized American actress and singer, who became successful in Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s. She was a natural redhead who was known for pl ...

and

Macdonald Carey Edward Macdonald Carey (March 15, 1913 – March 21, 1994) was an American actor, best known for his role as the patriarch Dr. Tom Horton on NBC's soap opera ''Days of Our Lives''. For almost three decades, he was the show's central cast member. ...

Jim Bowie James Bowie ( ) ( – March 6, 1836) was a 19th-century American pioneer, slave smuggler and trader, and soldier who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution. He was among the Americans who died at the Battle of the Alamo. Stories of h ...

is sent into Comanche country on a mission to allow the government to mine silver on the Indian's land.

Plot

An Indian treaty prevents settlers setting up camp on Comanche territory, but

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has been found and the government has sent

(

) and Dan'l Seeger (

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) to negotiate a new treaty to allow the precious metal to be mined. Bowie soon finds that settlers are planning a raid on the

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, all instigated by saloon owner Katie Howard (

) and her crooked brother Stacey ( Charles Drake). Katie falls in love with Bowie and turns honest, but it may be too late to prevent another

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Cast

as Katie Howard *

as James Bowie *

as Dan'l Seeger * Charles Drake as Stacey Howard * Pedro de Cordoba as Quisima * Ian MacDonald as Walsh * Rick Vallin as Pakanah * Parley Baer as Boozer, the bartender *

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as Sam *

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as Ed

Production

In March 1949, Universal announced they would make a biopic of Jim Bowie produced by Leonard Goldstein, most likely to star Scott Brady as Bowie. The film was originally called ''The Bowie Knife''. It was O'Hara's second film for Universal, following '' Bagdad'' (1949), and co-star Macdonald Carey's second film on loan from Paramount, following '' South Sea Sinner'' (1950). Location work was done at Kanab, Utah, but

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took place in and around the

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area of

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. Filming was postponed a week in August 1949 so O'Hara could recover from laryngitis.MARSHALL TO STAR IN PICTURE FOR UA: Actor Is Returning to Screen in 'The Whip,' With Gale Storm and Dan Duryea By THOMAS F. BRADY Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.9 Aug 1949: 20.

References

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* * * * 1950 films Films directed by George Sherman 1950 Western (genre) films American Western (genre) films Films set in the 1830s Films scored by Frank Skinner Universal Pictures films 1950s English-language films 1950s American films Cultural depictions of James Bowie {{1950s-Western-film-stub