''Men of Texas'' is a 1942 American

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film directed by Ray Enright and starring

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and Broderick Crawford.

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.

Cast

– Barry Conovan * Broderick Crawford – Henry Clay Jackson * Jackie Cooper – Robert Houston Scott *

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– Jane Baxter Scott *

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– Major Lamphere *

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– Mrs. Scott (Aunt Hattie) *

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– Sam Sawyer *

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– Colonel Scott *

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– The ghost of Sam Houston *

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– Mrs. Sam Houston *J. Frank Hamilton – Dwight Douglass *

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– Mrs. Olsen

Production

The film was originally called ''Deep in the Heart of Texas'' and filming started May 1942.

Reception

The ''New York Times'' said it "provides ample entertainment."'Men of Texas,' a Patriotic Western, at the Rialto -- 'Sweatier Girl' Arrives at the Central By BOSLEY CROWTHER. New York Times (13 July 1942: 18.

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