The Texan (film)

The Texan is a 1930 American Western film directed by John Cromwell and starring Gary Cooper and Fay Wray. Based on the short story The DoubleDyed Deceiver by O. Henry, the film is about a daring bandit called the Llano Kid who shoots a young gambler in selfdefense and is forced to hide from the law. He is helped by a corrupt lawyer who involves the bandit in a scheme to swindle a Mexican aristocrat whose son turns out to be the young gambler killed by the Llano Kid. The screenplay was written by Daniel Nathan Rubin, and the story was adapted for the screen by Oliver H.P. Garrett and Victor Milner. Produced by Hector Turnbull for Paramount Pictures, The Texan was released in the United States on May 10, 1930. The film received positive reviews upon its theatrical release.

Later aboard a train, the Kid meets an unscrupulous lawyer named Thacker Oscar Apfel, who convinces him to pose as the son of Seora Ibarra Emma Dunn, a wealthy South American widow whose son Enrique disappeared fifteen years earlier. Having set himself up as the widows agent hired to find the lost son, Thacker plans to return with her son and swindle the widows gold in the process. Soon the two men set sail aboard a schooner to South America, where they arrive at Seora Ibarras family hacienda in a little seaport town of Buenas Tierras. With his basic Spanish speaking skills, new sideburns, and tattooed hand similar to Enriques, the Kid is able to pass himself off as Enrique, the long lost son of Seora Ibarra.Their plans are interrupted, however, when the Kid meets and falls in love with his lovely niece Consuelo Fay Wray. Softened by Seora Ibarras affection for him, and his newfound love, he begins to have second doubts about the scheme. When the Kid learns that Seora Ibarras son was in fact the very man he shot in selfdefense in the saloon, he calls off his deal with Thacker. Angered by this turn of events, Thacker organizes a gang to steal the gold outright. ........

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