Texas Terror (1935)
0h 50m | PG-13
Sheriff John Higgins quits and goes into prospecting after he thinks he has killed his best friend in shooting it out with robbers. He encounters his dead buddy's sister and helps her run her ranch. Then she finds out about his past.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury
Studio: Paul Malvern Productions
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Video: 720p
Cast
John Wayne
as John Higgins
Lucile Browne
as Bess Matthews
LeRoy Mason
as Joe Dickson
Fern Emmett
as Aunt Martha Hubbard
George 'Gabby' Hayes
as Sheriff Ed Williams
Jay Wilsey
as Blackie Martin
Reviews
You feel more than a little sense of deja-vu watching this film. Sure, the plot is pretty standard, that's fine - it's the fact that the few action scenes there are are "borrowed" from other films. Maybe the production deadlines were just too tight; the weather maybe conspired against the filming schedule - or maybe Duke just broke a nail? Anyway, the plot centres around Wayne's "Sheriff Higgins" who whilst pursuing bank robbers shoots his friend - well, at least that's what he thinks... We know differently, and as he gradually gets over his grief, he starts to pick up the pieces and sets out to sort out the baddies. It's all pretty run of the mill stuff for the star, with Lucile Browne adding the glamour and a slightly flat Gabby Hayes not quite firing on all cylinders either. This film is no worse than many of the others Wayne was making at the time, and once it gets going it's entertaining enough - it's just really sloppily produced and edited and could never be described as anyone's finest work!