7/10
Way above the norm!
12 May 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Director: KURT NEUMANN. Screenplay: Karl Kamb, Robert Hardy Andrews. Story: Robert Hardy Andrews. Photographed in Technicolor by Charles Van Enger. Film editor: Frank Gross. Art directors: Bernard Herzbrun, Emrich Nicholson. Set decorators: Russell A. Gausman, Oliver Emert. Costumes: Rosemary Odell. Make-up: Bud Westmore, Jack Kevan. Hair styles: Joan St Oegger, Ann Locker. Production manager: Dewey Starkey. Music composed by Frank Skinner, directed by Milton Schwarzwald. Camera operator: Lloyd Ward. Set continuity: Connie Earle. Stunts: Fred Carson. Technicolor color consultant: William Fritzsche. Grip: Fred Buckley. Gaffer: Ross Saxon. Assistant director: Joe Kenny. Sound recording: Leslie I. Carey, Robert Pritchard. Associate producer: George C. Bethelon. Producer: Paul Short.

Copyright 17 March 1950 (in notice: 1949) by Universal Pictures Co., Inc. U.S. release: 19 March 1950. Australian release: 22 June 1950. 7,032 feet. 78 minutes.

U.K. release title: TEXAS KID, OUTLAW.

COMMENT: The story is a familiar one, but thanks to an involving and engaging script, it is just as thrilling today as when first presented. Appealing performances from the entire cast also help, and so does direction way above the norm from Kurt Neumann.

Production values, including location lensing and a spectacular climax, also prove a considerable asset.
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