Encore Westerns presented "Texas Terror" in November of 2014 and I was able to see it for the first time. That I had not seen it before surprised me, and that I got to see it this night gratified me: It is an excellent entry of the Lone Star movies.
Robert North Bradbury wrote and directed and had a cast of good actors, including John Wayne giving an unusual performance, one that merely foretells even greater performances to come.
Wisely, director and make-up and costuming allowed him to look like the "desert rat" he was supposed to be.
His leading lady, the lovely Lucile Browne, was one of the ablest among his B-Western co-stars, a very, very watchable young lady who I wish had made more movies.
Leroy Mason is, as usual, the chief bad guy, but he is such a smooth and good-looking guy, I wish he had had his own series with him as the hero.
All the players, even as the most minor characters, are totally believable and usually likable, helping make "Texas Terror" an excellent B-Western movie that I highly recommend.
There is a lot of story in "Texas Terror," with lots of good action, marred somewhat by (in my opinion) out-of-place stock shots that could have been omitted to the improvement of the still good movie.
One complaint: Neither the film credits nor even IMDb tells us who played Chief Black Eagle. That is a shame, a slap in the face to him and to us, the viewers and fans. I hope someone somewhere knows who he was and corrects this terrible omission.
Robert North Bradbury wrote and directed and had a cast of good actors, including John Wayne giving an unusual performance, one that merely foretells even greater performances to come.
Wisely, director and make-up and costuming allowed him to look like the "desert rat" he was supposed to be.
His leading lady, the lovely Lucile Browne, was one of the ablest among his B-Western co-stars, a very, very watchable young lady who I wish had made more movies.
Leroy Mason is, as usual, the chief bad guy, but he is such a smooth and good-looking guy, I wish he had had his own series with him as the hero.
All the players, even as the most minor characters, are totally believable and usually likable, helping make "Texas Terror" an excellent B-Western movie that I highly recommend.
There is a lot of story in "Texas Terror," with lots of good action, marred somewhat by (in my opinion) out-of-place stock shots that could have been omitted to the improvement of the still good movie.
One complaint: Neither the film credits nor even IMDb tells us who played Chief Black Eagle. That is a shame, a slap in the face to him and to us, the viewers and fans. I hope someone somewhere knows who he was and corrects this terrible omission.