“THE TEXANS”

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 28 January 1939, Page 3

“THE TEXANS”

A NOTABLE FILM Seldom has history been so excitingly told and characters out of the distant past so vividly brought to life as in Paramount’s epic of the South’s struggle for freedom during the dark days after the war between the States, as in “The Texans.” It recaptures the spirit of one of the most thrilling periods of the country’s history and is a powerful story of the men who rebuilt America after the national destruction of the “brothers’ war.” Lovely Joan Bennett, as a fireeating belle of the Old South who fights a one-woman war against northern oppression, and Randolph Scott, as a gallant Southern soldier who counsels a clasping of hands across the bloody chasm after the war, play the romantic leads in the story of the ten-year battle between corrupt carpetbaggers and proud natives for the control of the destinies of the South, The struggle of the Texans for freedom and a new 1 life is mirrored in the thousand-mile trek across three States w T hich Scott and Miss Bennett undertake in order to find a market for their cattle and save the herd from confiscation by the officials w T ho rule the State. Some of the most startling mass action scenes ever filmed appear in the cattle stampedes, the prairie fires, the Indian attacks and chase by northern cavalry. The cast includes such popular playei's as May Robson, Walter Brennan, Robert Barrat and Robert Cummings.