Classic Western Roundup-2 - Disk 1 - DVD9 - The Texans (1938) - California (1946) [DDR]
THE TEXANS (1938)
The Texans is a 1938 film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by James P. Hogan, and starring by Joan Bennett, Randolph Scott and Walter Brennan.
The screenplay was written by William Wister Haines, Bertram Millhauser and Paul Sloane and is based on the story North of '36 by Emerson Hough.
Most of the exterior scenes were filmed about 30 miles (48 km) east of Cotulla, Texas on the 35,000-acre (140 km2) La Mota Ranch. Other scenes were filmed near Laredo, Texas. 2500 Texas Longhorns were used for the herd. Interior scenes were recorded at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. The Texans premiered at San Antonio's Majestic Theater on July 16, 1938.
CAST: -
Joan Bennett as Ivy Preston
Randolph Scott as Kirk Jordan
May Robson as Granna
Walter Brennan as Chuckawalla
Robert Cummings as Alan Sanford
Robert Barrat as Isaiah Middlebrack
Raymond Hatton as Cal Tuttle
Francis Ford as Uncle Dud
Harvey Stephens as Lt. David Nichols
Irving Bacon as Pvt. Collins
Directed by James P. Hogan
Produced by Lucien Hubbard
Written by William Wister Haines, Bertram Millhauser, Paul Sloane
SYNOPSIS:- The Texans (1938)
After the Civil War, a Texas ranch owner (Bennett) is trying to move her cattle to market in Kansas to sell them. A Confederate veteran (Scott) becomes involved with her and learns she wants to use the money to help the South continue fighting. She is harassed on the cattle drive by corrupt Union Army officers and carpetbaggers.
After the Civil War, an ex-Confederate soldier faces new battles, including the elements and a carpetbagger intent on destroying him.
CALIFORNIA (1946)
California is a 1947 western film directed by John Farrow and featuring Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, Barry Fitzgerald and George Coulouris.
Epic account of how California became a state, featuring a wagon train, the Gold Rush, a wicked saloon queen, and an evil profiteer.
CAST:-
Barbara Stanwyck as Lily
Ray Milland as Trumbo
Barry Fitzgerald as Fabian
George Coulouris as Coffin
Albert Dekker as Pike
Anthony Quinn as Hernandez
SYNOPSIS:- California (1946)
A deserter who had been an Army lieutenant, Jonathan Trumbo is hired to guide a wagon train bound for California during the gold rush. When a woman named Lily Bishop is accused of cheating at poker in a saloon, farmer Michael Fabian invites her to join the wagon train over Trumbo's strenuous objections. Trumbo, too, accuses of her of cheating at cards after losing to Lily, an insult she promises not to forget. Lily leaves with Booth Pennock, a ruffian who injures Trumbo with a whip before departing. Lily ends up in Pharoah City, running a saloon. The town is controlled by Pharoah Coffin, a former slave trader who opposes the law and order of California approving statehood. Trumbo turns up and gets involved in a saloon brawl. Lily orders him never to set foot there again, but Trumbo wins the place in a poker game. She mistakenly takes Pharoah to be an honest man and moves onto his hacienda. Coffin's men beat up Trumbo, who is rescued on the trail by Mexicans and vows revenge. When his wounds heal, Trumbo returns and becomes a spokesman for statehood advocacy. Coffin's hired men kill Fabian for similar beliefs, causing Lily to finally see Coffin for the crazed villain he is. Trumbo forms a posse and corners Coffin, who is descending into madness. Lily shoots him. Trumbo, in love with Lily, promises to return to the Army to atone for his desertion, hoping someday to return to her.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate: 5947 kbps
Video Resolution: 720x480
Video Aspect Ratio:1.333:1
Frames Per Second:29.970
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: English
Subtitles: None
Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]
Duration: 3:10:41
