“THE TEXANS”
ATTRACTION FOR EMPIRE The first great screen epic dealing with the Reconstruction South since D. W. Griffith made motion picture history with '* The Birth of a Nation ” in 1915 will be seen in Paramount’s “ The Texans,” which opens to-day at the Empire Theatre. Joan Bennett, Randolph Scott and May Robson head the cast in a story of the South’s attempt to follow her own destiny in the dark days after the war between the States. In tracing the . fortuned* of a typical Texas family, beginning with the return of the men from battle in 1865, “The Texans” symbolises the tragic and moving story of the entire South during the post-war years. Joan Bennett is a tempestuous Dixie belle, who refuses to submit to Northern rule and insists that the “ great cause ” is not lost, while Randolph Scott is a home-coming Confederate soldier, who devotes everything to the building up of a new Texas on the ruins of the old. Although Miss Bennett is all for starting a new uprising, Scott convinces her that she should devote her energies to constructive work,. and together they lead a great cattle cavalcade through the wilds ,of Texas and Oklahoma into thriving Kansas, where the new railroad provides them with a ready market for their steers.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23648, 4 November 1938, Page 16
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