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| ACTORS: | John Wayne, Barbara Sheldon, George 'Gabby' Hayes |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Robert N. Bradbury |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 22 January, 1934 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Alpha-Omega Publications |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Western |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 095163952440 |
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Customer Reviews of Lucky Texan
One of Wayne's best early Westerns! The Lucky Texan has to be one of the highlights of John Wayne's career. Not only is the plot well explained, but it was also nicely written and flows well.
Synopsis: Mason (John Wayne), has joined his fathers gold mining partner, (George Hayes), to steak a claim up near their hometown. However, two very greedy storeowners would die to lay their hands on this gold claim, costing up to $20,000. One of them gets completely bested and turned in by John Wayne in the middle of the film, leaving the sheriff to lock up his own son! The climax is very exciting, with a car and horse chase to get rid of the threatening outlaws.
This is one of the early westerns not to be forgotten, as it it should be the pride of his Lone Star pictures and others.
John Wayne and Gabby Hayes in an early B Western
In "Lucky Texan" (1934), John Wayne plays Jerry Mason, who partners up with the old friend of his father, Jake "Grandy" Benson (George "Gabby" Hayes) on a gold strike. But as they work their claim in secret the local accessor, Harris (Lloyd Whitlock) and his henchman Joe Cole (Yakima Canutt), are trying to find out where the strike is so they can kill the old man. This one also has a rather funny chase scene that involves an early automobile and a railroad handcar, while the Duke is on a horse, that will have you thinking more of the Keystone Cops than John Ford, but it actually sort of works because these are really the sort of films you would want to see at a Saturday matinee.
Written & directed by Robert N. Bradbury, "The Lucky Texan" was the third of the poverty row Westerns that Wayne did for Lone Star between 1933 and 1935. As is usually the case with these B Westerns the attraction is both the young John Wayne before he fully develops his heroic cowboy persona and the stunt work of the legendary Yakima Canutt (the best one is where Mason leaps for a bad guy, misses, falls into a ravine, and ends up catching the guy at the other end). The print copy is less than stellar, but then it was not like they were working with first rate production values to begin with at Lone Star. I keep expecting these to be really bad, but they are more than halfway decent (so far).
A B Western First
Gabby Hayes in drag. Enough said