San Antonio (film)

San Antonio
Theatrical poster
Directed byDavid Butler
Robert Florey (uncredited)
Raoul Walsh (uncredited)
Written byAlan Le May
W. R. Burnett
Produced byRobert Buckner
StarringErrol Flynn
Alexis Smith
CinematographyBert Glennon
Edited byIrene Morra
Music byRay Heindorf
Max Steiner
M. K. Jerome
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (uncredited)
Color processTechnicolor
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • December 29, 1945 (1945-12-29)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2,232,000[1][2]
Box office$3 million (US rentals in 1946)[3] or $5,899,000[1]

San Antonio is a 1945 American Western film starring Errol Flynn and Alexis Smith. The film was written by W. R. Burnett and Alan Le May and directed in Technicolor by David Butler as well as uncredited Robert Florey and Raoul Walsh.

The film was nominated for 2 Academy Awards, for Best Original Song ("Some Sunday Morning") and Best Art Direction (Ted Smith, Jack McConaghy).[4]

Plot

Rustlers are running rampant in Texas, but at least one rancher, Charlie Bell, isn't pulling up stakes yet, particularly with the news that old friend Clay Hardin is en route from Mexico back home to San Antonio.

Clay claims to have proof, documented in a book, that Roy Stuart is responsible for the rustling. Clay arrives in town in the stagecoach chartered by Jeanne Starr, an actress from the East whose manager, Sacha, has arranged a job performing in Stuart's saloon, believing it is a legitimate venue.

Clay dismisses Charlie's suspicions that Jeanne is in cahoots with her boss and goes to meet her in her dressing room. Clay does leave the book in Charlie's care. While Clay is wooing Jeanne on the balcony, Sacha goes out for a walk. Stuart fires at Clay, breaking the window behind them. Charlie is drawn to the gunfire. Legare, who is watching, shoots Charlie, takes the book, and threatens Sacha.

There is no civil law in San Antonio: A cavalry troop has been posted to keep the town from boiling over. The Colonel holds a hearing investigating Charlie's death. Sacha is too afraid to testify. Clay is now suspicious of Jeanne. The troop has been ordered to pull out to deal with an "Indian whittle wang." Clay asks the Colonel to give him the job of town marshal so he can find out who killed Charlie. The Colonel gives him 24 hours, until a new marshal can be designated.

Poised to kill Sacha, Stuart learns that he only saw Legare. Legare tells Jeanne he will have Clay killed if she tells him anything. The cavalry rides out and the town fills with hired guns. Clay figures out that Stuart didn't kill Charlie, and at the Bella Union tells him so. Sacha returns to point the finger at Legare. Clay escorts Legare through the Bella Union at gunpoint. Stuart steps on stage and Jeanne warns Clay. A huge gunfight erupts. Stuart pursues Legare outside. Clay follows into the street, also filled with men shooting. Legare hides in the Alamo's ruins. Stuart kills him, takes the book, and escapes on horseback.

Jeanne leaves for New Orleans thinking that Clay has abandoned her. In fact, he is missing. Cut to Clay in hot pursuit of Stuart, determined to arrest him. Ultimately Stuart dies when he hits his head on a rock during the climactic fist-fight. Clay retrieves the book.

He catches up with Jeanne's coach and climbs aboard. He points to the sad look in the eyes of the cattle nearby. Jeanne—who previously talked about cow's "antlers"—mentions the breed, and admits she was born in Fort Worth. They kiss and the coach turns around.

Cast

Production

Development

W. R. Burnett, one of the writers, said Warner Bros had the idea of getting Max Brand to write an Errol Flynn Western. Burnett says "They gave him carte blanche, which they never did, because of his enormous reputation. He used to come in every day with a briefcase and go out every night with a briefcase. We found out later he brought in two quarts of gin every day and drank them up-took the empties out."[5]

Burnett says a few months later he got a call from Jim Geller, head of Warners story department, saying they had a shooting date, Flynn and a color commitment, but Brand had come up with "a very original idea for us. A Western in which there's no action." Geller told Burnett to come up with a story with producer Robert Buckner.[5]

(According to a later article on Brand, the author contributed to the scripts of the Flynn films Uncertain Glory, The Adventures of Don Juan and Montana before becoming a war correspondent and being killed in May 1944.[6])

Burnett says he wrote the script in three weeks then rewrote it. He says he pitched Marlene Dietrich for Flynn's co star; Jack Warner was enthusiastic but did not want to pay Dietrich's fee especially when he had so many actors under contract.[5]

In March 1944, Warners announced they would make the film from a script by Burnett with Raoul Walsh to direct. It was the third in a series of Westerns he made named after a city, following Dodge City and Virginia City.[7]

In June it was announced that Raymond Massey, who had made Santa Fe Trail with Flynn, was going to play the second male lead.[8] He was initially replaced by Zachary Scott, and Alexis Smith was selected as the female lead.[9] By July David Butler had been assigned to direct and Paul Kelly, not Scott, was to play the villain.[10]

Writer W. R. Burnett said when Butler was given the job of directing, "...it scared the hell out of us because he had never made anything but musicals. But he got a good picture out of it."[5]

Shooting

Shooting started September 1944. The film was shot at Warners' Calabasas Ranch.[11]

Director David Butler said Warners "built probably the longest street that was ever built for a Western at Warners" for the film and "they built it the wrong way."[12]

Butler says he was warned about working with Flynn but "I never met a nicer man in my entire life. He did everything he was told."[12] Butler says Flynn was only drunk once, for a close up, and was always on time.

Actor Hap Hogan died during filming.[13]

"That was a fine, well done picture", said Butler. "We had a lot of fun and Flynn was great."[14]

Reception

Box office

The film was Flynn's most popular movie of the mid-1940s, earning $3,553,000 domestically and $2,346,000 foreign.[2] It was Warners' third most popular film of the year, after Saratoga Trunk and Night and Day.[1]

Critical

In 2019, an article in Filmink magazine said, "There is something anonymous about the film – none of the sequences reach the delirious excesses found in the Dodge City trilogy, for instance; it's less silly than anything in those movies but also less memorable."[15]

References

  1. ^ a b c Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 26 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  2. ^ a b Glancy, H. Mark. "Warner Bros film grosses, 1921–51." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. March 1995
  3. ^ "60 Top Grossers of 1946", Variety 8 January 1947 p8
  4. ^ "NY Times: San Antonio". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2009. Archived from the original on June 28, 2009. Retrieved December 20, 2008.
  5. ^ a b c d Mate, Ken; McGilligan, Pat; White, Dennis L. "Burnett". Film Comment. Vol. 19, no. 1, Jan/Feb 1983. New York. pp. 58–68, 70, 80.
  6. ^ Nolan, William F. (May 6, 1979). "west view: Max Brand: the great storyteller who became reluctant 'king of the pulps'". Los Angeles Times. p. s3.
  7. ^ "SCREEN NEWS HERE AND IN HOLLYWOOD: Warner Bros. to Do Film of San Antonio -- 'The Fighting Seabees' Opens at Globe". THE NEW YORK TIMES. March 18, 1944. p. 18.
  8. ^ "SCREEN NEWS HERE AND IN HOLLYWOOD". New York Times. June 30, 1944. p. 17.
  9. ^ "SCREEN NEWS HERE AND IN HOLLYWOOD: Alexis Smith Named for Lead in 'San Antonio'". New York Times. July 1, 1944. p. 10.
  10. ^ "SCREEN NEWS: RKO to Co-Star Phillip Terry and Audrey Long". New York Times. July 28, 1944. p. 16.
  11. ^ Tony Thomas, Rudy Behlmer * Clifford McCarty, The Films of Errol Flynn, Citadel Press, 1969 p 143
  12. ^ a b Butler p 214
  13. ^ "LOOKING AT HOLLYWOOD". Los Angeles Times. October 19, 1944. p. A7.
  14. ^ Butler p 218
  15. ^ Vagg, Stephen (November 17, 2019). "The Films of Errol Flynn: Part 3 The War Years". Filmink.

Sources

  • Butler, David (1993). David Butler: A Directors Guild of America Oral History. Scarecrow Press.

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