Texas 1941-William Holden and Glenn Ford

Texas was Columbia Pictures' lighthearted (and frankly more enjoyable) follow-up to its 1940 big-budget western Arizona. William Holden and Glenn Ford, looking collectively 28 years old, play a couple of ex-Confederate soldiers who get into all sorts of trouble in a wide-open Texas town. The two split up, whereupon Ford takes a job on Joseph Crehan's ranch; by and by, he falls in love with Crehan's daughter Clare Trevor. Meanwhile, Holden has joined a gang of rustlers headed by town dentist Edgar Buchanan (in real life, Buchanan had been a practicing dentist, retaining his license well into the sixties just in case things slowed down in Hollywood). Ex-friends Ford and Holden confront each other again when Holden tries to steal the cattle that Ford is driving across the state to Abilene. Complicating matters is the fact that Holden, too, carries a torch for Trevor. Though packed with action and suspense, Texas never loses its subliminal sense of humor, a fact that can be attributed to its director, slapstick comedy veteran George Marshall.

Cast;

William Holden - Dan Thomas

Glenn Ford - Tod Ramsey

Claire Trevor - "Mike" King

George Bancroft - Windy Miller

Edgar Buchanan - Doc Thorpe

Don Beddoe - Sheriff

Andrew Tombes - Tennessee

Addison Richards - Matt Laskan

Edmund MacDonald - Comstock

Joseph Crehan - Dusty King

Willard Robertson - Wilson

Pat Moriarity - Matthews

Edmund Cobb - Blaire

James Flavin - Announcer

William Gould - Cattle Buyer

Raymond Hatton - Judge

Jack Ingram - Henchman

Ethan Laidlaw - Henry's Handler

Lyle Latell - Dutch Henry

Ralph Peters - Deputy

Duke York - Wise Guy

Carleton Young