Streets of Laredo

"RIDE TO WILD ADVENTURE...With The Texas Rangers And Their "Blonde Bobcat"!"

1949 1h 33m EN

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★6.0TMDB · 14

Western

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Texas, 1878: cheerful outlaw-buddies Jim, Lorn and Wahoo rescue spunky orphan Rannie Carter from rustling racketeers, then are forced to separate. Lorn goes on to bigger and better robberies, while Jim and Wahoo are (at first reluctantly) maneuvered into joining the Texas Rangers. For friendship's sake, the three try to keep out of direct conflict, but a showdown begins to look inevitable. And Rannie, now grown into lovely young womanhood, must choose between Lorn and Jim

“RIDE TO WILD ADVENTURE...With The Texas Rangers And Their "Blonde Bobcat"!”

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Cast

William Holden
Jim Dawkins
Macdonald Carey
Lorn Reming
Mona Freeman
Rannie Carter
William Bendix
Wahoo Jones
Stanley Ridges
Major Bailey
Alfonso Bedoya
Charley Calico
Ray Teal
Cantrel
Clem Bevans
Pop Lint

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Leslie Fenton
Writers: Louis Stevens, Charles Marquis Warren, Elizabeth Hill
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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77 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Leslie Fenton, shot by Ray Rennahan. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Victor Young. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Archie Marshek shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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ERA

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William Holden and Macdonald Carey and Mona Freeman carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "RIDE TO WILD ADVENTURE...With The Texas Rangers And Their "Blonde Bobcat"!".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0041929 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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WILD

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Only 14 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Leslie Fenton directs. Ray Rennahan behind the camera. Victor Young scores. Archie Marshek cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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177 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2Directed by Leslie Fenton, shot by Ray Rennahan. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by Victor Young. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Archie Marshek shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5William Holden and Macdonald Carey and Mona Freeman carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "RIDE TO WILD ADVENTURE...With The Texas Rangers And Their "Blonde Bobcat"!".
7IMDB entry: tt0041929 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 14 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Ray Rennahan
Original score: Victor Young
Editing: Archie Marshek
Costume design: Mary Kay Dodson
Makeup / hair: Wally Westmore
Runtime: 93 min · 1h 33m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Streets of Laredo (1949)

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John Chard2015-07-05
★ 7/10
The Boys From Company D - Frontier Battalion. Streets of Laredo is directed by Leslie Fenton and adapted to screenplay by Charles Marquis Warren from a Louis Stevens and Elizabeth Hill story. It stars William Holden, Macdonald Carey, William Bendix and Mona Freeman. Music is by Victor Young and cinematography by Ray Rennahan. For fans of traditional Westerns this is as solid as a Brick Adobe Structure. A remake of The Texas Rangers (1936) of sorts, plot finds Holden, Bendix and Carey as three bad boys who get divided by circumstance, love and conscious. Two of them wind up in the Texas Rangers - the famed frontier law enforcement battalion - the other stays on the wrong side of the law. All roads lead to the day of reckoning... The production is the usual mixed bag of superlative location photography (Simi Valley/Gallup) and crude back projection so often seen in the 40s and 50s Oater releases, with Rennahan's Technicolor photography a treat for the eyes. Performances are assured because the three principal guy actors are given characterisations that suits them - Holden tough emotional anti-hero - Bendix a lovable and dopey toughie - Carey sly bad boy. Freeman is lovely but it's a dressage character, while Alfonso Bedoya is on hand for some stereotypical bandido villainy. At 90 minutes in length it feels a bit padded out until the two guys actually join the Rangers, so some patience is required during the first half. However, there is plenty of Western movie action within the story, some turns in plotting to grab the heart strings and a pleasing array of costumes and musical accompaniments to keep the senses perky. All told, it's just a thoroughly enjoyable Oater regardless of if you have happened to have seen the original version. 7/10

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