Dallas

The Civil War is over. But Gary Cooper still has a lot of fight in him! Land, a family, a future. They're "dreams fried up, short order" for Blayde Hollister. Rightly or wrongly, this ex-confederate from Georgia has waged his own war to settle past injustices. Now he's a wanted man. And he can feel the law closing in on him. Big D hosts capital-E excitement when screen legend Gary Cooper plays Hollister in this brawling adventure Dallas. Posing as a Boston dandy, he comes to the boomtown with a gun and a plan: to smoke out the notorious Marlow brothers (including Steve Cochran and Raymond Massey), then give 'em all a whiff of gunsmoke. Director Stuart Heisler (Cooper's ALONG CAME JONES) keeps the pace flowing like the local saloon's liquor, Max Steiner's score gallops like a hell-for-leather posse and prolific Hollywood screenwriter John Twist fires scene after scene with lines like "you'd get your pockets picked in a graveyard." Dallas, here we come! © Warner Bros