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Out on the Texas frontier, Jim Garry rides into town, quickly getting caught in a simmering confrontation between homesteaders and cattle ranchers. After accepting a job from an old friend, Tate Riling, Garry comes to realize that Riling has been manipulating the tensions between rancher John Lufton and the local settlers in a bid to swindle the Lufton's out of their livestock. Garry becomes torn between his conscience and his greed until he finds...
2) Lone star
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Will Texas be independent or a U.S. state? Ex-President Andrew Jackson recruits cattleman Devereaux Burke to travel through hostile Indian land, find Texas hero Sam Houston and persuade him to support annexation. In exchange, Burke will gain a contract to sell beef to U.S. forces during the war with Mexico sure to follow statehood.
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Deborah Kerr inherits an estate and three ardent suitors in this zany romantic comedy. When an old soldier she met during the war leaves her his ranch in Texas, British heiress Alison Kirbe sets sail for America to claim her 50,000 acres of land, also along for the crossing are a con man, a wolf and a no-nonsense lawyer, three bachelors who compete for her hand.
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"It's the early 1900s, and weather-beaten cowhand Hewey Calloway rides in from the vast Texas range after learning his brother's farm is in danger of foreclosure. Arriving in a nearby town, what the middle-aged roughrider finds amazes yet threatens him -- automobiles and civilized society. Soon the local schoolteacher catches his eye, which places Hewey in a unique situation. Surrounded by his brother's family and with a strong attraction to the new...
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"Determined to escape politics and strife, Sam Houston crosses the Red River into Texas -- into the tumultuous politics and looming conflict of the Free Texas movement. From Houston's early reluctance to join the Texas cause to his interactions with familiar historical figures, (Davy Crockett and Andrew Jackson among them), to his victory over the forces of General Santa Ana at the Battle of San Jacinto, [it] traces the exploits of the man who would...
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Brewster McCloud is a strange young man who lives under the roof of the Houston Astrodome and is secretly building a pair of giant wings. A ruthless killer is on the loose in Houston, and some of the city's richest and most illustrious citizens are among the victims. Is it the killer's bizarre trademark or merely a coincidence that each corpse is marked with bird droppings?
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